Background
Haskell, Thomas Langdon was born on May 26, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Anthony Porter and Martha Averill (Bullock) Haskell.
( Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Socia...)
Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Social Science signaled the beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface by the author, explores the background and premises of the American Social Science Association (ASSA)―the first American group dedicated to the "scientific" study of humanity and society. Haskell thus helps us to understand a sea change in American intellectual life―the rise of this thing called "social science," the power and implications of the new trend toward secular professionalism, and, ultimately, how it happened that commonsense modes of explanation in terms of conscious choices by individuals came to be overshadowed by a mode of explanation that systematically construes people as creatures of circumstance. How, Haskell asks in his conclusion, did the development of modern society alter "the way we explain human affairs and conceive of man?" This edition includes a new appendix, listing all articles appearing in the Journal of Social Science from 1869 to 1901.
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Haskell, Thomas Langdon was born on May 26, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Anthony Porter and Martha Averill (Bullock) Haskell.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1973.
From instructor to professor, Rice U., Houston, since 1970; Samuel G. McCann professor of history, Rice U., Houston, since 1987. Visiting member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1978-1979.
( In Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, Thomas L. Haskell arg...)
( In Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, Thomas L. Haskell arg...)
( Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Socia...)
( Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Socia...)
Lieutenant United States Navy, 1961-1965. Fellow Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. Member Organization Am Historians, American History Association.
Married Dorothy Ann Wyatt, August 27, 1966. Children: Alexander Bullock, Susan Wyatt.