Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social-Scientific Thought

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• One - Distant Echoes of a Road Not Taken 1
• Two - Erasmus The Re-emergence of Naturalism 18
• Three - Pioneers of Modern Social Science Montaigne, Hobbes and Hume 30
• Four - The Political and Educational Theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 57
• Five - Harriet Martineau and the Quiet Revolution 70
• Six - The Dialectical Materialism of Karl Marx 97
• Seven - Charles Darwin The Reluctant Revolutionary 114
• Eight - Herbert Spencer Setting the Stage for a Unified Study of Humanity 128
• Nine - What Price Immortality? The Faustian Tragedy of Sigmund Freud 149
• Ten - Ivan Pavlov and the Third Copernican Revolution 172
• Eleven - John Dewey and the Universality of Scientific Inquiry 186
• Twelve - From Naturalism to Mysticism Henri Bergson 205
• Thirteen - The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl 217
• Fourteen - Emile Durkheim and Max Weber A Matter of Boundaries 228
• Fifteen - The Process of Cultural Evolution George Herbert Mead 258
• Sixteen - George Santayana on a Unified Social Theory 276
• Seventeen - Bertrand Russell and the Quest for Philosophical Certainty 293
• Eighteen - The Evolutionary Social Theory of Julian Huxley 310
• Nineteen - The Existential Political Theory of Hannah Arendt 324
• Twenty - Erich Fromm and Humanistic Psychology 346
• Twenty-One - The Genetic Developmentalism of Jean Piaget 361
• Twenty-Two - Karl Popper and the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge 380
• Twenty-Three - The Radical Behaviourism of B.F. Skinner 399
• Twenty-Four - Modern Evolutionary Theory Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould 420
• Twenty-Five - Thomas Kuhn and the Crisis in Social Science 445
• Twenty-Six - Toward a Unified Social Science 466
• Appendix - Evolutionary Spiral 493
• Index 497

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