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The behavioral sciences are historical sciences of emergent complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

Larry Arnhart
Larry Arnhart
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. [email protected]
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Abstract

Unlike physics and chemistry, the behavioral sciences are historical sciences that explain the fuzzy complexity of social life through historical narratives. Unifying the behavioral sciences through evolutionary game theory would require a nested hierarchy of three kinds of historical narratives: natural history, cultural history, and biographical history.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 18 - 19
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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