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Laws and Concepts

One of the first philosophical conversations I had with Paul Piccone concerned the issues in this paper. He was a stalwart critic of positivism. Specifically, he argued that not only were the social and natural sciences radically distinct, but that there were no such thing as social sciences (in spite of his brief sojourn into sociology). He of course also rejected social-scientific laws, but for largely ideological reasons. As I continued to think about this problem, we came back to it many times over the years. This essay summarizes some of the debate and, I hope, exemplifies what Telos was...