TY  - BOOK
AU  - Risjord,Mark W.
TI  - Woodcutters and witchcraft: rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences 
T2  - SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
SN  - 0585268088
AV  - H61 .R569 2000eb
U1  - 302.5/42 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social Sciences - General
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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