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Words and Distinctions for the Common Good : Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations and typographic conventions
- Prologue (or, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?)
- First Act
- 1. Sandwichness wars
- 1.1 A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich
- 1.2 Criteria
- 1.3 A burrito is a burrito is a burrito
- 1.4 Bread
- 1.5 Meat and dairy
- 1.6 Law and social science
- 2. The problem
- 2.1 What's the problem?
- 2.2 Objects
- 2.3 Characters
- 2.4 Levels
- 2.5 Human
- 2.6 What we talk about when we talk about 'bread,' 'planet,' and 'religion'
- 3. Nine ways to decline
- 3.1 What's your problem?
- 3.2 Nine arguments and nine responses
- 3.3 Envoi
- 4. Technical FAQs
- 4.1 Introductory FAQs
- 4.2 FAQs about definitions and concepts
- 4.3 FAQs about words and meaning
- 4.4 FAQs about other words and expressions
- 4.5 FAQs about sources
- 4.6 Concluding FAQs
- 5. Two activities
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Words and distinctions
- 5.3 The catch
- 5.4 Moving forward: pragmatically
- 6. Practical reason activities
- 6.1 The basic idea
- 6.2 Dinnertime
- 6.3 Collective
- 6.4 The good and the true
- 6.5 Deliberative democracy and constructivism
- 6.6 'Practical'
- 6.7 The plan
- Second Act
- 7. Word first
- 7.1 Words
- 7.2 Words, words, words
- 7.3 Dump ontology
- 7.4 Descriptively and normatively
- 8. Activity WF and its discontents
- 8.1 Trouble
- 8.2 Merely
- 8.3 Verbal and merely verbal
- 8.4 Struggles
- 8.5 Social science
- 8.6 Against
- 8.7 For
- 8.8 How words matter
- 9. Distinction first
- 9.1 Distinctions and classifications
- 9.2 Research on classification
- 9.3 Good news and bad news
- 9.4 Desiderata
- 9.5 Individuation
- 9.6 How to choose
- 9.7 A Chinese encyclopedia
- 10. Conversation starters (fragments, sketches, suggestions, doubts)
- 10.1 Hey!
- 10.2 Are some animals more equal than others?
- 10.3 Moral goodness
- 10.4 Conditional
- 10.5 Natural language
- 10.6 Differences and diversities
- 10.7 Levels
- 10.8 Envoi
- 11. As a matter of fact
- 11.1 Dude!
- 11.2 Real life
- 11.3 Here and now
- 11.4 Critical FAQs
- 11.5 Coda
- Epilogue (so, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?)
- Appendix: Make Pluto Great Again
- A.1 Planethood wars
- A.2 Pluto killers
- A.3 Criteria
- A.4 Prejudice
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index