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- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
℗♭2000.
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Серия: |
SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=44055 |
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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.