Wittgenstein among the sciences : Wittgensteinian investigations into the 'scientific method'
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Wittgenstein among the sciences : Wittgensteinian investigations into the 'scientific method'
(Philosophy and method in the social sciences)
Routledge, 2016
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"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing. First issued in paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index
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Description
Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation. In other words, Read pursues a 'therapeutic' approach to the issue of the status and nature of these subjects. Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines are analysed. A novel and significant contribution to social science methodology and the philosophy of science and 'the human sciences', this book will be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, as well as to psychiatrists, economists and cognitive scientists.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction, Simon Summers
- Lecture Transcripts: Theories and non-theories of the human sciences
- Part 1 Wittgenstein, Kuhn and Natural Science: Is Kuhn: the Wittgenstein of the sciences?
- Kuhn and incommensurability: an interpretation
- Wittgenstein and Kuhn on incommensurability - the view from inside
- Values: another kind of incommensurability?: on incommensurability of values in science
- Does Kuhn have a 'model' of science?
- Inter-section: an outline Wittgensteinian elicitation of criteria. Part 2 Wittgenstein, Winch and 'Human Science': The ghost of Winch's ghost
- The hard case of (severe cases of) schizophrenia
- Extreme aversive emotion
- Wittgenstein contra Friedman
- 'Dissolving' the hard problem of consciousness back into ordinary life. A concluding summary
- Rupert Read: interviewed by Simon Summers
- Bibliography
- Index.
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