What is dualism in geography? What is empiricism in sociology? What is possibilism in human geography? What is empiricism in economics? What is empiricism in psychology? What is logical positivism in psychology? What is phenomenology in sociology?
1. Possibilists claim that what Smith ought to do now depends on two kinds of fact about relevant agents' responses to his action. If the relevant agent is a different individual, what Smith ought to do now depends on how that agent would respond. If the relevant agent is Smith himself,...
By the 1950s, environmental determinism was almost entirely replaced in geography by environmental possibilism, effectively ending its prominence as the central theory in the discipline. Regardless of its decline, however, environmental determinism was an important component of geographic history as it in...