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PhD Philosophy University of Notre Dame
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According to Wikipedia, Brian C. Fay is an American philosopher and William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is known for his works on the philosophy of social sciences. Books Social Theory and Political Practice Critical Social Science: Liberation and its Limits Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science: A Multicultural Approach Louis Mink: Historical Understanding History and Theory: Contemporary Readings

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Brian Fay's Published Works

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Critical Social Science: Liberation and Its Limits (1987) (579)
Contemporary philosophy of social science (1991) (336)
Contemporary philosophy of social science : a multicultural approach (1996) (327)
Social Theory and Political Practice (1975) (280)
What Would An Adequate Philosophy of Social Science Look Like?*‡ (1977) (62)
A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography (2010) (56)
History and Theory: Contemporary Readings (1998) (31)
Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to Culture and Critique (2008) (13)
Social Theory and Political Practice (Rle Social Theory) (2014) (12)
Environmental History: Nature at Work (2003) (9)
The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology (1977) (7)
Practical Reasoning, Rationality and the Explanation of Intentional Action* (1978) (5)
Winch’s philosophical bearings (2000) (5)
Historians and Ethics: A Short Introduction to the Theme Issue (2004) (4)
Naturalism as a Philosophy of Social Science (1984) (4)
For Science in the Social Sciences (2006) (3)
THEORY AND METATHEORY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE—OR, WHY THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IS SO HARD* (1985) (3)
HISTORY AND THEORY: THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2010) (2)
YOSEMITE SHUTTLE BUS SYSTEM (1999) (2)
Nothing But History (1998) (1)
Triptych : reflecting on drawing practice as knowledge (2008) (1)
A re-used bust of Amenemhat II in the Hermitage (1996) (1)
What is Drawing - A Continuous Incompleteness (2013) (1)
New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy . By Bohman James. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992. 273p. $32.50. (1993) (1)
From Narrativism to Pragmatism (2017) (1)
Using Formative Feedback to Support a Blended Learning Programme (2011) (1)
The Ethics of History (review) (2006) (1)
Critical Theory in Political Practice.Stephen T. Leonard (1992) (0)
Time and Narrative@@@Time, Narrative, and History@@@Historical Understanding (1989) (0)
Edited volumes-history and theory. Contemporary Readings (1999) (0)
Brian Fay Broadcast Radio Interview RTE Radio One Arena (2014) (0)
The Abydos Princess (1996) (0)
Book Review:Max Weber's Vision of History. Guenther Roth, Wolfgang Schluchter (1980) (0)
Art-Watching, Limited Edition Art Book (2007) (0)
Writing Student Recommendations (1997) (0)
What George Eliot of Middlemarch Could Have Taught Spinoza (2017) (0)
Public Interview Brian Fay in Conversation with Mark Jackson (2014) (0)
Casting a Net: Contemporary Drawing Practices and Strategies (2008) (0)
Public Conversation Brian Fay and James Merrigan as part of Broken Images or When does Posterity begin exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy (2011) (0)
Book Reviews : Susan James, The Content of Social Explanation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985. Pp. viii, 192, $37.50 (1990) (0)
KIERA O'TOOLE - A FRAGILE INTENSITY (2015) (0)
When Is an Artwork?:Bergson’s Progress and the Art object. (2011) (0)
Aviezer Tucker, ed., A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Oxford/Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-4908-2. xii+563. (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Re-Presenting the Good Society . By Maeve Cooke. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 276p. $35.00 cloth. (2008) (0)
Lost and Found: We are where we were (2010) (0)
Custodian of the seal, Mentuhotep (1993) (0)
Temporalities and the Drawn Response to the Conservation and Restoration of Paintings (2012) (0)
Finding Time: How it is Made Visual Artists Newsletter (2007) (0)
Fionna Murray: A Real Corner of the World, Brian Fay, the Dock Leitrim, October - December 2007 (2008) (0)
Introduction: Theory and Practice (2014) (0)
An Alternative View: Interpistive Social Science (2014) (0)
Metapractice John G. Gunnell: The Orders of Discourse: Philosophy, Social Science, and Politics . (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Pp. xv, 252. $68.00. $24.95, paper.) (2000) (0)
Brian Fay interview for PEEL magazine (2013) (0)
George Friedman , The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School . Reviewed by (1983) (0)
Paper - A Reserve or Backgound? (2013) (0)
Catalogue Essay for Kiera O'Toole Solo Exhibtion (2015) (0)
Drawing: Starting Point of Finishing Line? Drawing Seminar Limerick City Gallery of Art (2010) (0)
A critical examination of the notion of 'policy science' (1971) (0)
Verstehen and the Reaction against Positivism (2016) (0)
And Or Not – the system, the body and time (2015) (0)
Book Review:Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory. Ernest Gellner (1982) (0)
Brian Fay contribution to the Lismore Castle Arts Public Discussion- Painting As A Dream, Friday 25th of April, 2014 (2014) (0)
A Site of Change: The Masterplan (2016) (0)
States of transience in drawing practices and the conservation of museum artworks (2014) (0)
After Marxism. By Aronson Ronald. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1995. 321p. $40.00 cloth, $18.95, paper. (1996) (0)

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