Research methodology textbooks and materials

Philosophy

Links to a variety of additional Philosophy resources and South African Philosophy departments can be found on the Yenza! philosophy page.

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Arbib, MA & Hesse, MB. Construction of reality. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York: Cambridge University Press,
1986.
ISBN: 0521326893

Booth, W et al. The craft of research. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1995.
Description: xii, 294 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0226065839 / 0226065847

Carey, SS. A beginner's guide to scientific method. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Pub., 1994.
Description: xii, 124 p.
ISBN: 0534211267

Chalmers, AF. What is this thing called science?: an assessment of the nature and status of science and its methods.(Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1982.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Description: xix, 179 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0702218316

Dewey, J. Logic: the theory of inquiry. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: [S.l.]: Holt, c1938.
ISBN: 0030052505

Griffin, DR. The reenchantment of science: postmodern proposals. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, c1988.
Description: xv, 173 p.
Series: SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought.
ISBN: 0887067840 / 0887067859
Contents: The cosmic creation story / Brian Swimme -- Postmodern science and a postmodern world / David Bohm -- The postmodern challenge to biology / Charles Birch -- The laws of nature as habits / Rupert Sheldrake -- Religious world modeling and postmodern science / Frederick Ferre -- Ecology, science, and religion / John B. Cobb, Jr -- The postmodern heresy -- consciousness as causal / Willis W. Harman -- Parapsychology and postmodern science / Stanley Krippner -- Of minds and molecules / David Ray Griffin.

Hempel, CG. Philosophy of natural science. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1966

Hospers, J. Introduction to philosophical analysis. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.
Edition: 4th ed.
ISBN: 0132663058

Hugo, P (ed). Truth be in the field: social science research in southern Africa. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1990.
Edition: 1st ed.
Description: xii, 358 p.; 22 cm.
Series: Studia composita; 6.
ISBN: 0869816330

Kuhn, TS. The structure of scientific revolutions. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Series: International encyclopedia of unified science; v. 2, no.
ISBN: 0226458032 / 0226458040

Manheim, JB & Rich, RC. Empirical political analysis: research methods in political science. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: White Plains, N.Y: Longman, c1995.
Edition: 4th ed.
Description: xiii, 465 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0801313074

Mao Tse Tung. Five essays on philosophy. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1977.
Edition: 1st ed.

Mouton, J. Understanding social research. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: Pretoria: Van Schaik Academic, 1996.
Edition: 1st ed.
Description: xiii, 272 p.
ISBN: 0627021638 (pbk.)

Neuman, WL. Social research methods: qualitative & quantitative approaches. (Level: 4th year)
Publisher: Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Description: xiv, 560 p.
ISBN: 0205193560 / 0205265618 (pbk.)
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Popper, K. Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: London: Routledge, 1992.
Edition: 7th ed.

Ruse, M. The Darwinian paradigm: essays on its history, philosophy, and
religious implications. (Level: Honours)
Publisher: London New York: Routledge, 1989.
ISBN: 0415003008

Ruse, M. Philosophy of Biology. (Level: 2nd year)
Publisher: London: Hutchinson, 1973.
ISBN: 0091152208 / 0091152216

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