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In the years after World War II, a new generation of scholars redefined the central concepts and practices of social science in America.
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Hunter Heyck is an associate professor and chair of the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America.
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