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Pluralism, social action and the causal space of human behavior

Helen Longino: Studying human behavior: How scientists investigate aggression and sexuality. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013, 256pp, $25 PB

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  1. One of my points in Studying Human Behavior is the incomplete liberation from context and folk psychology achieved in the definitions of the particular behaviors whose research is the book’s subject.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    James Tabery

  2. Department of Management, King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Road, London, SE1 9NH, UK

    Alex Preda

  3. Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-2155, USA

    Helen Longino

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Tabery, J., Preda, A. & Longino, H. Pluralism, social action and the causal space of human behavior. Metascience 23, 443–459 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9903-x

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