Book Reviews : Creating a Dialectical Social Science. BY IAN I. MITROFF and RICHARD O. MASON. Theory and Decision Library,Volume 25. Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company,1981. Pp. ix + 189. $33.00

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Churchman, C. West (1948) Theory of Experimental Inference. New York.

( 1961) Prediction and Optimal Decision. Englewood Cliffs.

( 1968) Challenge to Reason. New York.

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Dewey, John (1922) Human Nature and Conduct. New York.

Haworth, Lawrence, and J.S. Minas (1954) 'Concerning Value Science ', Philosophy of Science, 21, 54-61.

Kosok, Michael (1970a) 'The Dynamics of Paradox: Phenomenological Dialectics of Science', Telos, 5, 31-43.

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