Benton T.. Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought.Bloomsbury Academic,2023. — 329 p.. 2023

By the time this edition leaves the printers, it will have been fully twenty years since the death of my co-author, Ian Craib. Ian and I had taught philosophy of social science together for some twenty-five years, and we saw the book as a setting down of the current state of an ongoing debate between us and our students on the many topics in the discipline. Although we both drew on the heritage of Marx and Engels, we drew on it very differently, to the point that Ian, in his typically paradoxical personal conclusion, had come to see himself as an anarcho-syndicalist (though he was no longer sure what that meant). Ian had by that time become an NHS psychotherapist, deeply concerned with questions about how people deal, or fail to deal, with the consequences of ‘the hand of cards' which they are dealt as they start their lives. He said this was a source of wonder to him, and he became convinced of the importance to human flourishing of the ability to think: Those who do best in psychotherapy are those who can learn to think about their inner lives, often think the unthinkable, who can learn to tolerate anxiety, contradiction, paradox and uncertainty and internal conflict and make something out of it all.

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