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Sep 9, 2024 · A new book by SIS Professor Patrick Thaddeus Jackson argues that what we need, instead, are better accounts of facts and their relationship to explanation—ones that take seriously the dependence of facts on communities of practice and on consensus procedures of measurement, but do not abandon the epistemic distinctiveness of facts.
Mar 3, 2014 · Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (known fondly by students and colleagues as “PTJ“) is renowned for his diverse body of scholarship in IR, ranging from understanding the philosophy of science wagers underpinning theory, to connecting IR and popular culture.
Dec 20, 2012 · In his The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations, Patrick Jackson identifies four distinct ways of studying world politics: ‘neopositivism’, ‘critical realism’, ‘analyticism’ and ‘reflexivity’.
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Bringing clarity and order to the discussion by disclosing both key commonalities and significant differences between the ways we talk about facts and explanations, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson argues that although intrinsically more contestable than facts, social-scientific explanations can nonetheless be related to them in ways that allow ...
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Learning in the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Civilizing the Enemy (2006) and the co-editor of Civilizational Identity (2007).
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Feb 5, 2023 · Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC, USA. William Bain’s book does a brilliant job excavating some key conceptual underpinnings of our contemporary discussions about order, but he has perhaps underplayed the importance of nominalism in ...
Jun 1, 2011 · Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. Abingdon /New York: Routledge, 2011, 268 pp. At the core of Patrick T. Jackson’s new book The Conduct of Inquiry in International. Relations stands the mutual ...
