Author(s)

Jan-Erik Lane

UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor Dowding has written an interesting and stimulating book on the relevance (R) of general philosophical insights for the conduct of political science enquiry. In this paper, I challenge his positive analysis due to the relevance (R) difficulty. The social sciences have to struggle with a set of philosophical questions, but they hardly belong to general ontological or epistemological theories.

Classical Issues in Philosophy, Fundamental Social and Political Science Problems, Dowding, Weber, Myrdal

Lane, J.-E. (2018) Philosophy of Science and Political Inquiry— Notes on Dowding, Weber and Myrdal. Open Journal of Philosophy, 8, 262-276. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2018.83019.