Logic on the track of social change

Logic on the track of social change / David Braybrooke, Bryson Brown, Peter K. Schotch, with two chapters by Laura Byrne.

This treatise sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in a variety of accounts of social changes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braybrooke, David
Other Authors: Brown, Bryson, Schotch, Peter K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1995.
Series:Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
Subjects:
Social change.
Social norms.
Logic.
Logic
Social change
Social norms
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Change.
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Table of Contents:
  • Brief Guide to Reading the Formulas
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What Rules Amount to in Practice: A Theory with a Definition
  • 3. Logical Preliminaries to a Formal Theory of Rules
  • 4. The Logic of Rules
  • 5. Who Controls the Marriage Decision? Stone and Macfarlane: Opposed Accounts
  • 6. Marx and Macfarlane: On Peasant and Capitalist Ownership in England
  • 7. Justice in the Marxist Dialectic of Rules
  • 8. A Rules-Analysis, following Foucault, of the Birth of Clinical Medicine
  • 9. The Opposition, Intended or Real, of the US Constitution to Factions or Political Parties
  • 10. The Abolition of the British Slave Trade
  • 11. Logic and its Application to Social Change: Our Work in Retrospect and Prospect.

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