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Woodcutters and witchcraft : rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences / Mark W. Risjord. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Risjord, Mark W., 1960-
- Series:
- SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 201 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-195) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-9288-5
- 0-585-26808-8
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