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Explaining social behavior

From Theory & Science, Jon VanWieren (WMU): Decisions, Decisions, Decisions... Intentionality, the Growth of Knowledge, and Cultural Evolution: Establishing Evolutionary Reasoning in the Social Sciences. A review of The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties. A review of Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster. A review of Peter T. Manicas's A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and Understanding. Musings on time and utopia: While Jacques Derrida teaches that deconstruction is immanent within time, Henry David Thoreau believed that the genius that is the child in us starts with our original amazement (and part 2 and part 3).