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(1999) Schutzian social science, Dordrecht, Springer.
After discussing the need of all empirical sciences for a foundation in a non-empirical science outside of themselves, I argue that the social sciences need such a foundation for "practical" and theoretical reasons. I argue that phenomenological philosophy is well suited to provide it by setting the assumptions made by the social sciences within a broader framework of systematically examined beliefs, but philosophical reflection cannot replace the empirical research specific to the social sciences.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2944-4_9
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Nenon, T. (1999)., The phenomenological foundation of the social sciences, in L. Embree (ed.), Schutzian social science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 173-186.
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