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16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science

What's Left of Philosophy

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How Do We Raise Expectations?

In the hard sciences, belief doesn't affect knowledge that's generated. But our beliefs about what's possible in the social world have a very important effect on what actually is possible in thesocial world. And that's what fundamentally distinguishes the natural sciences from the social sciences.

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