Woodcutters and witchcraft: rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences
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1. Verfasser: Risjord, Mark W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany State University of New York Press ©2000
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index
"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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 201 pages)
ISBN:0585268088
0791445119
0791445127
9780585268088

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