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Woodcutters and witchcraft : rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences /

"Illustrated with vivid examples from Wittgenstein's woodcutters to witchcraft in Mexico and elsewhere, this book argues that the underlying methodological principle governing interpretive change is explanatory coherence."--Jacket.

Основен автор: Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Albany : State University of New York Press, ℗♭2000.
Серия: SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Woodcutters and witchcraft.
Съдържание:
  • Breakdown and Reconstruction
  • Synopsis
  • Apparent Irrationality
  • Bloodsucking Witchcraft
  • Sati
  • Azande Witchcraft: Three Interpretations
  • The Purrinton Murders
  • Parameters of the Problem
  • Interpretive Change
  • Charity
  • Humanity
  • Explanatory Coherence
  • Explanation
  • Criteria of Adequacy
  • The Erotetic Model of Explanation
  • Presuppositions
  • Interests and Laissez-Faire Contextualism
  • Explanation and Coherence Revisited
  • Intentional Action and Social Explanation
  • Explanatory Pluralism
  • Intentional Action Explanations
  • Social Explanations
  • The Compatibility of Functional and Reason-Giving Explanations
  • Meaning
  • The Problem of Meaning
  • The Explanatory Value of Meaning
  • Defusing the Double Hermeneutic
  • Normativity
  • Norms, Action, and Explanation
  • Norms, Rules, and Mistakes
  • Contested Norms and the Community of Agents
  • Interpretive Dynamics
  • On the Relationship between the Social and Natural Sciences.