ISAIAH BERLIN AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Anti-Scientism, Value Pluralism, and the Limits of Social Knowledge

What are the limits of what the social sciences can know? Isaiah Berlin spent a lifetime insisting there are limits—and that ignoring them has a moral cost.Isaiah Berlin is rarely read as a thinker of the social sciences. He wrote no manuals of method, proposed no unified theory, and resisted every attempt to systematize his thought. Yet few twentieth-century thinkers have shaped the moral and int...