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.
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
c2000.
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| Series: | SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Woodcutters and witchcraft : |b rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences / |c Mark W. Risjord. |
| 260 | |a Albany, N.Y. : |b State University of New York Press, |c c2000. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 201 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-195) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Breakdown and reconstruction -- Synopsis -- Bloodsucking witchcraft -- Sati -- Azande witchcraft: three interpretations -- The Purrinton murderers -- Parameters of the problem -- Charity -- Humanity -- Explanatory coherence -- Criteria of adequacy -- The erotetic model of explanation -- Presuppositions -- Interests and laissez-faire contextualism -- Explanation and coherence revisited -- Explanatory pluralism -- Intentional action explanations -- Social explanations -- The comparability of functional and reason-giving explanations -- The problem of meaning -- The explanatory value of meaning --Defusing the double hermeneutic -- 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. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social sciences |x Philosophy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social sciences |x Methodology. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences. | |
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