Logic on the track of social change / David Braybrooke, Bryson Brown, Peter K. Schotch, with two chapters by Laura Byrne
1995, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430700
ISBN: 0198235305
Physical description; xv, 273 p. : ill. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Subjects; Social change. Social norms. Logic. Sociology & Social History.
Price: €48.95