Study Questions for Hollis

1. What is the Enlightenment project?
2. How does Reason drive out ignorance?
3. How can political change be analyzed?
4. What is ontology? Why is it important?
5. What is methodology? Why is it important?
6. What is epistemology? Why is it important?
7. What are the differences between Marx's and Mill's approaches to social science?
8. What is determinism?
9. How are human freedom and determinism reconciled (or not)? What is involved in causality?
10. What is the difference between holism and individualism?
11. What is the difference between explanation and understanding?
12. Which theories of science (Kuhn, Lakatos, etc.) emphasize explanation? understanding?

Things to look for/keep in mind for future readings:

• which research traditions are more holistic/individualistic
• which research traditions emphasize explanation/understanding

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