Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason: A Critical Interpretation of Peter Winch's Philosophy of the Social Sciences - Brossura

Lerner, Berel Dov

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ISBN 10: 0415758521 ISBN 13: 9780415758529

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Riassunto

This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch's writings on the philosophy of the social sciences. The author points to Winch's tendency to over-emphasize the importance of language and communication, and his insufficient attention to the role of practical, technological activites in human life and society.
It also offers an appendix devoted to the controversy between the anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere regarding Captain James Cook's Hawaiian adventures.
Essential reading for those studying the development of philosophy in the twentieth century, this book will also be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of religion, and all those with an interest in the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Berel Dov Lerner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Galilee College, Israel.

Contenuti:

Introduction

1. Social Science and Winch's Idea of Philosophy

2. Winch on Rule-Following

3. Rules and Meaningful Behaviour

4. Explanation and Interpretation

5. Winch on the Use of Technical Concepts in the Social Sciences: The Interpretive Autonomy of Meaningful Behaviour

6. Winch and Interpretive Charity

7. Evans-Pritchard's Study of Zande Mysticism

8. Winch's Interpretation of Magic and Religion

9. Winch and Instrumental Pluralism

10. Winch and the Ethnographic Record

11. Evidence and Interpretation

12. Instrumental Action in Winch's Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0415758521
• ISBN 13: 9780415758529
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192