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Osnove filozofije znanosti (Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Science)

The book is a university textbook of the University of Split, which in fifteen chapters discusses topics from the field of philosophy of science, from clarifying the concepts of philosophy and science and their mutual relationship, through an overview of the history of science from Aristotle to Newton, and the later emergence of quantum theory …

The Sociological and Philosophical Foundations of Ethnographic Research

The basic aim of this paper is to provide insight into the sociological and philosophical bases of contemporary ethnographic research. Accordingly, we start from a discussion of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of qualitative and quantitative approaches.The paper provides a discussion of naturalism and sociological positivism, which argues for the idea of the unity of the …