The flight from reality in the human sciences / Ian Shapiro.

Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2005], ©2005.

x, 223 pages ; 24 cm

Fear of not flying-- The difference that realism makes: socal science and the politics of consent / Ian Shapiro and Alexander Wendt -- Revisiting the pathologies of rational choice / Donald Green and Ian Shapiro -- Richard Posner's praxis -- Gross concepts in political argument -- Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics: or, what's wrong with political science and what to do about it -- The political science discipline: a comment on David Laitin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.