Students Introduction to Geographical Thought
Students Introduction to Geographical Thought This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. Uses…
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Students Introduction to Geographical Thought
This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. Uses examples that address both physical geography and human geography. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and knowledge.Written with flair and passion, A Student′s Introduction to Geographical ThoughtExplains the key ideas: scientific realism, anti-realism and idealism / positivism / critical rationalism / Marxism and critical realism/ social constructionism and feminism / phenomenology and post-phenomenology / postmodernism and post-structuralism / complexity / moral philosophy.
Use a familiar and real-world example - 'the beach' - as an entry point to basic questions of philosophy, returning to this to illustrate