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There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

In Defence of Peter Winch

By: Dr Phil Hutchinson,Dr Rupert Read,Professor Wes Sharrock

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There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

In Defence of Peter Winch

By: Dr Phil Hutchinson,Dr Rupert Read,Professor Wes Sharrock

The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns. Re-establishing a Winchian voice, the authors examine how such contentions involve a failure to understand central themes in Winch's writings and that the issues which occupied him in his Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy and later papers remain central to social studies. The volume offers a careful reading of the text in alliance with Wittgensteinian insights and alongside a focus on the nature and results of social thought and inquiry. It draws parallels with other movements in the social studies, notably ethnomethodology, to demonstrate how Winch's central claim is both more significant and more difficult to transcend than sociologists and philosophers have hitherto imagined.

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1409491412

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Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

By: Dr Rupert Read,Mr Simon Summers

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Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

By: Dr Rupert Read,Mr Simon Summers

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.

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1409495280

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9781409495284

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

By: Dr G W Kimura

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Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

By: Dr G W Kimura

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason examines the recent explosion of interest in pragmatism. Part I traces the source of classical pragmatism's distinctive thought to Peirce, James, and Dewey – specifically to their shared theological understanding inherited from Emerson's Transcendentalism and British Romanticism. Part II reconstructs this rationality for postmodernity, showing how neopragmatism, properly understood, is theological reason. Kimura discusses the return of religious themes in philosophers like Putnam, Cavell, and Rorty and critiques the neopragmatic theologies of West, McFague, and Kaufman. Neopragmatism and Theological Reason explores pragmatic themes across philosophy, theology, and literary theory, arguing that neopragmatism must acknowledge its theological sources and then reconstruct its rationality to the religious context of modernity/postmodernity.

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1409477592

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The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

Following Modernity and Post-Modernity

By: Revd Dr J Andrew Kirk

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The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

Following Modernity and Post-Modernity

By: Revd Dr J Andrew Kirk

Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science, ethics and Christian faith. Kirk contributes to the current debate about the intellectual basis and integrity of Western culture, exploring controversial issues concerning the notions of modernity and post-modernity. Repositioning the Christian faith as a valid dialogue partner with contemporary secular movements in philosophy and ethics, Kirk seeks to show that in 'post-Christian' Europe the Christian faith still possesses intellectual resources worthy to be reckoned with. This book's principal argument is that contemporary Western society faces a cultural crisis. It explores what appears to be an historical enigma, namely the question of why Western intellectual endeavours in philosophy and science seem to have abandoned the search for a source of knowledge able to draw together disparate pieces of information provided by different disciplines. Kirk draws conclusions, particularly in the area of ethical decision-making, from this apparent failure and invites readers to consider Christian theism afresh as a means for the renewal of culture and society.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140947738X

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9781409477389

The Concept 'Horse' Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations

A Prolegomenon to Philosophical Investigations

By: Dr Kelly Dean Jolley

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The Concept 'Horse' Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations

A Prolegomenon to Philosophical Investigations

By: Dr Kelly Dean Jolley

In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Gottlob Frege contended that the difference between concepts and objects was absolute. He meant that no object could be a concept and no concept an object. Benno Kerry disagreed; he contended that a concept could be an object, and that therefore the difference between concepts and objects was only relative. In this book, Jolley aims to understand the debate between Frege and Kerry. But Jolley's purpose is not so much to champion either side; rather, it is to utilize an understanding of the debate to shed light on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein-and vice versa. Jolley not only sifts through the debate between Frege and Kerry, but also through subsequent versions of the debate in J. J. Valberg and Wilfred Sellars. Jolley's goal is to show that the central notion of Philosophical Investigations, that of a 'conceptual investigation', is a legacy of the Frege/Kerry debate and also a contribution to it. Jolley concludes that the difference between concepts and objects is as absolute in its way in Philosophical Investigations as it was in The Foundations of Arithmetic and that recognizing the absoluteness of the difference in Philosophical Investigations provides a beginning for a 'resolute' reading of Wittgenstein's book.

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140948548X

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Quakering Theology

Essays on Worship, Tradition and Christian Faith

By: Dr David L Johns

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Quakering Theology

Essays on Worship, Tradition and Christian Faith

By: Dr David L Johns

Quakers exist neither for themselves nor by themselves alone. Therefore, they ought not to construct Quaker theologies but rather quaker (verb) theology-to add their fingerprints to the larger conversation. David Johns contributes to a Quaker way of thinking theologically but also invites others to think through their denominational identities into a more expansive and ecumenical space. Placing contemporary Quaker thought in conversation with the wider theological tradition, Johns shows that Quakers have something important to contribute to the wider Christian family and he demonstrates how other groups may enter this conversation as well. Some themes explored may not spring immediately to mind as ‘Quaker themes’-the saints, C.S. Lewis, sacraments, ritual, and Shakespeare-but Johns argues these are precisely the kind of issues that require Quaker fingerprints-that require quakering.

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1472408365

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Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory

Taking Concepts Seriously

By: Dr Leonidas Tsilipakos

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Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory

Taking Concepts Seriously

By: Dr Leonidas Tsilipakos

Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedures often employed in social theory for dealing with concepts, offering alternative approaches to social scientists and philosophers for tackling the conceptual issues that have so bedevilled social science from its inception.

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1472432401

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Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

By: Dr Adrian Wilson

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Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

By: Dr Adrian Wilson

This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the ‘ceremony of childbirth’, the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structuring of gender-relations in the period.

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1409468143

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The Possibility of Discussion

Relativism, Truth and Criticism of Religious Beliefs

By: Dr Hugo Strandberg

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The Possibility of Discussion

Relativism, Truth and Criticism of Religious Beliefs

By: Dr Hugo Strandberg

Answering the question 'How is fruitful discussion possible?', this book addresses the central philosophical issue of how reason shall be understood and how it is limited. This study argues that the understanding of discussion according to which it necessarily starts from putative universal norms and rules for argumentation is problematic, among other reasons since such rules are unfruitful in contexts where there are vast disagreements such as religion. Inspired by Wittgensteinian ideas, Strandberg develops instead a new way of understanding discussion, truth and rationality which escapes these problems, and shows how this solution can be used to answer the accusation against Wittgensteinian philosophy for being conservative and resulting in fideism.

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1409485102

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There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

In Defence of Peter Winch

By: Dr Phil Hutchinson,Dr Rupert Read,Professor Wes Sharrock

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In Defence of Peter Winch

By: Dr Phil Hutchinson,Dr Rupert Read,Professor Wes Sharrock

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Book's by Dr Rupert Read

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Wittgenstein among the Sciences

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

Neopragmatism and Theological Reason

The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

The Future of Reason, Science and Faith

The Concept 'Horse' Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations

The Concept 'Horse' Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations

Quakering Theology

Quakering Theology

Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory

Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory

Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

The Possibility of Discussion

The Possibility of Discussion

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

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