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51Antipositivism — Sociology …
52Sociology — For the journal, see Sociology (journal). Sociology …
53David Kellog Lewis — David Lewis David Kellog Lewis (28 septembre 1941 14 octobre 2001), philosophe américain, est l une des figures majeures de la philosophie analytique contemporaine. Après avoir enseigné brièvement à l Université de Californie… …
54David Kellogg Lewis — David Lewis David Kellog Lewis (28 septembre 1941 14 octobre 2001), philosophe américain, est l une des figures majeures de la philosophie analytique contemporaine. Après avoir enseigné brièvement à l Université de Californie… …
55David Lewis — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lewis. David Kellogg Lewis (28 septembre 1941 14 octobre 2001), philosophe américain, est l une des figures majeures de la philosophie analytique contemporaine. Après avoir enseigné brièvement …
56Mill, John Stuart — born May 20, 1806, London, Eng. died May 8, 1873, Avignon, France British philosopher and economist, the leading expositor of utilitarianism. He was educated exclusively and exhaustively by his father, James Mill. By age 8 he had read in the… …
57reasons/causes — When we act for a reason, is the reason a cause of our action? Is explaining an action by means of giving the reason for which it is done, a kind of causal explanation? The view that it is not will cite the existence of a logical relation between …
58economic life, sociology of — The fundamental problem in economics is to explain how the limited productive resources and effort of a society are allocated among the wide range of alternative uses to which they might be put. Conventional economic theory seeks to address this… …
59Environmental determinism — Geography History of geography Graeco Roman Chinese Islamic Age of Discovery History of cartography Environmental determinism Regional geography Quantitative revolution Critical geography …
60Effective evolutionary time — The hypothesis of effective evolutionary timeK. Rohde: Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: the search for the primary cause, Oikos, 65, 514 527,1992.] attempts to explain gradients, in particular latitudinal gradients, in species… …
