Woodcutters and witchcraft :
Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
Woodcutters and witchcraft : rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences / Mark W. Risjord. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages). - SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences . - SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
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.
"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.
English.
0585268088 9780585268088
99042500
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Methodology.
PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.
Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social Sciences - General.
Social Sciences.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
H61 / .R569 2000eb
302.5/42
Woodcutters and witchcraft : rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences / Mark W. Risjord. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages). - SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences . - SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
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.
"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.
English.
0585268088 9780585268088
99042500
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Methodology.
PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.
Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social Sciences - General.
Social Sciences.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
H61 / .R569 2000eb
302.5/42