| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 201 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
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SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
Breakdown and Reconstruction -- Synopsis -- Apparent Irrationality -- Bloodsucking Witchcraft -- Sati -- Azande Witchcraft: Three Interpretations -- Purrinton Murders -- Parameters of the Problem -- Interpretive Change -- Charity -- Humanity -- Explanatory Coherence -- Explanation -- Criteria of Adequacy -- 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 -- Compatibility of Functional and Reason-Giving Explanations -- Meaning -- Problem of Meaning -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Methodology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Risjord, Mark W., 1960- Woodcutters and witchcraft. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000 0791445119 (DLC) 99042500 (OCoLC)42027482 |
| ISBN |
0585268088 (electronic book) |
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9780585268088 (electronic book) |
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0791445119 (hc. ; alkaline paper) |
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0791445127 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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