PHL 324 Philosophy of the Social Sciences (3 credits)

An analysis of the metaphysical conception of the human person forming the pre-understanding of the various theories of the social sciences; the relation of the various criteria for knowing to the theories which issue from them; the metaphysics of the reductions: materialism, positivism, historicism, cultural relativism; the epistemological problems of subjectivism, objectivism, scientific methodology, determinism, freedom.