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Woodcutters and witchcraft : rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences / Mark W. Risjord.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciencesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585268088
  • 9780585268088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Woodcutters and witchcraft.DDC classification:
  • 302.5/42 21
LOC classification:
  • H61 .R569 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Review: "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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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.

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