Jason Blakely is assistant professor of political science at Pepperdine University.
"Jason Blakeley writes a well-researched, well-argued manifesto for
a new social science. The power of the analysis is that this new
social science need not be revolutionary, since Macintyre and
Taylor have already paved the way. Will others follow? Will
political science and the other social sciences follow? Only time
will tell. I’d encourage social scientists and philosophers of all
stripes to pick up this helpful volume." —voeglinview
"Although a number of other scholars have at least considered
writing on this subject over the past decade and more, I am not
aware of any book-length treatment of it or of any treatment that
is so well informed or so well judged. Jason Blakely's account
might well prove definitive." —Kelvin Knight, London Metropolitan
University
"Jason Blakely skillfully uses the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre
and Charles Taylor as his interpretive lens for observing how the
naturalist /antinaturalist debate develops in the philosophy of the
social sciences over the second half of the twentieth century.
Blakely does this, moreover, with great clarity and economy. His
book thus offers a philosophical and historical perspective on an
important debate that is both intellectually substantive and highly
readable." —Paul A. Roth, University of California-Santa Cruz
"This book, containing many original contributions to the field,
does an excellent job in identifying a real problem in mainstream
political theory—its overly normative character and its separation
from social science. It contains many original contributions to the
field. I particularly liked the way in which the problems of
naturalism are presented as institutional, cultural, and political
as well as philosophical. The historical background to these
problems is also interesting and sheds fresh light on the issues."
—Nicholas Smith, Macquarie University
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