SHAMANS OR SCIENTISTS? POSITIVIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SENSE-ABLE CONCEPTS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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dc.title	SHAMANS OR SCIENTISTS? POSITIVIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SENSE-ABLE CONCEPTS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
dc.contributor.author	SEET CHONG EN, BENJAMIN
dc.date.accessioned	2015-12-31T18:01:38Z
dc.date.available	2015-12-31T18:01:38Z
dc.date.issued	2015-07-28
dc.identifier.citation	SEET CHONG EN, BENJAMIN (2015-07-28). SHAMANS OR SCIENTISTS? POSITIVIST PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND SENSE-ABLE CONCEPTS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
dc.identifier.uri	http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/121967
dc.description.abstract	I argue that Positivist International Relations is a pseudo-science. This is because it uses overly ambiguous concepts. I then propose a remedy for such ambiguity, a method of "Lego-languages" that we can use to construct unambiguous concepts. Specifically, I reconstruct the tenets of positivist social science from scratch and critique its use of indicators.
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Philosophy of Social Science, Methodology, International Relations, Epistemology, Concepts, Operationalization
dc.type	Thesis
dc.contributor.department	POLITICAL SCIENCE
dc.contributor.supervisor	JANICE BIALLY MATTERN
dc.description.degree	Master's
dc.description.degreeconferred	MASTER OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
dc.identifier.isiut	NOT_IN_WOS
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