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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Colección:SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
Temas:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Methodology.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Social sciences > Methodology
Social sciences > Philosophy
Social Sciences - General.
Social Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

Ejemplares similares