Development of the Philosophy of Social Science of Logical Empiricism

Logical empiricism is rich in ideas of philosophy of social science. In the course of its development,it takes on the following characteristics: By proposing physicalism and unified science,it reconstructs the social science and puts it in the proper place. By diversified understanding of laws in social science,it is weakening its program. In the evolution of its explanation of social science,it gets in touch with ideas from phenomenology and hermeneutics and other schools. In fact,philosophy of social science of logical empiricism not only exhibits the tradition of naturalism and scientism,but also touches the humanistic tradition of European philosophy,which lays a good foundation for the development of post-empirical social sciences and provides important philosophical support for the reconstruction of social science research paradigm.