https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Uchronia https://booksandideas.net/Uchronia 2019-01-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Emmanuelle Loyer History method Institut français counterfactual causality <p>Counterfactual history is a matter of ‘what ifs'. What if the Allies had lost the Second World War? What if there had been no transatlantic slave trade? Two French historians analyse the intellectual merits of this use of the past, long established in the Anglo-American world.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Non-replicable https://booksandideas.net/Non-replicable 2018-05-28T07:00:00Z text/html en Aurélien Allard Philosophy psychology science method experimentation <p>Over the last twenty years, some of the social and bio-medical sciences have had to face the impossibility of replicating some of their most famous experiments. Although this situation raises serious concerns, it is an opportunity to fundamentally renew the scientific methodology in these disciplines.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Economizing-on-Scientific-Debate https://booksandideas.net/Economizing-on-Scientific-Debate 2018-01-15T08:00:00Z text/html en Olivier Godechot Economy science method experimentation experimental economics Institut français <p><i>Le négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser</i> (Economic Denialism, and How to Get Rid of It) has sparked lively discussion in France. What can we draw from this book for a reflection on social science methods and the terms of scientific debate?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Bourdieu-a-Lecture-on-the-Method https://booksandideas.net/Bourdieu-a-Lecture-on-the-Method 2016-07-11T07:00:00Z text/html en Thibault Le Texier Society Bourdieu sociology method Florence Gould Foundation <p>The first two years of Bourdieu's teaching at the Collège de France were less a general introduction to his concepts than a long immersion in his method, at the intersection of reflexivity, symbolics and structural analysis.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Fighting-over-Numbers https://booksandideas.net/Fighting-over-Numbers 2015-12-21T08:00:00Z text/html en Olivier Pilmis Politics Society statistics method Institut français <p>Two recent books explore the importance of quantification in contemporary technologies of power and forms of resistance to them. But is activism on behalf of an emancipatory rather than subservient use of numbers possible or even desirable?</p>