Wittgenstein And The Social Sciences
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Wittgenstein And The Social Sciences
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Author : Robert Vinten
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2020-07-27
Wittgenstein And The Social Sciences written by Robert Vinten and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with Philosophy categories.
In Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences, Robert Vinten takes a fresh look at the relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the social sciences. He argues that although social sciences are quite different to the natural sciences, they are nonetheless properly called ‘sciences’. The book looks in detail at whether Wittgenstein can be claimed by conservatives, liberals, or socialists as their own. Wittgenstein’s philosophical remarks and remarks about politics and culture are taken into account in deciding where to locate Wittgenstein in relation to various ideologies. In the final part of the book, Vinten considers how Wittgenstein’s philosophy can be of use in resolving or dissolving problems in the social sciences. Along the way, he critically assesses work from Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Richard Rorty, and Chantal Mouffe in the light of Wittgenstein’s philosophical oeuvre. The book makes a compelling examination of how Wittgenstein’s work remains as relevant as ever to thinking about our cultural and political situation.
The Idea Of A Social Science And Its Relation To Philosophy
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Author : Peter Winch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008
The Idea Of A Social Science And Its Relation To Philosophy written by Peter Winch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
Here Winch addresses the possibility and practice of a comprehensive 'science of society', drawing from the works of such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.S. Mill and Max Weber to make his case.
Wittgenstein And The Idea Of A Critical Social Theory
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Author : Nigel Pleasants
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-31
Wittgenstein And The Idea Of A Critical Social Theory written by Nigel Pleasants and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-31 with Social Science categories.
This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented preeminently by Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Renouncing the quest for an alternative Wittgensteinian theory of social and political life, the author shows that Wittgenstein nevertheless has considerable significance for critical thought and practice.
Wittgenstein Among The Sciences
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Author : Rupert Read
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
Wittgenstein Among The Sciences written by Rupert Read and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Social Science categories.
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.
Wittgenstein And Justice
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Author : Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1985
Wittgenstein And Justice written by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Law categories.
Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.
The Claims Of Common Sense
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Author : John Coates
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-05-30
The Claims Of Common Sense written by John Coates and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-30 with Philosophy categories.
The Claims of Common Sense investigates the importance of ideas developed by Cambridge philosophers between the World Wars for the social sciences.
Marx And Wittgenstein
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Author : D. Rubinstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-19
Marx And Wittgenstein written by D. Rubinstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 2005. This book has two primary objectives. The first is to show that there are substantial parallels between the work of Marx and Wittgenstein, and the second is to apply a synthesis of these two thinkers to a variety of philosophical and theoretical disputes over the character of the social sciences.
Clarity And Confusion In Social Theory
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Author : Leonidas Tsilipakos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Clarity And Confusion In Social Theory written by Leonidas Tsilipakos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Social Science categories.
Departing from a concern with certain ’hard’ problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on what the author calls the theoretical attitude towards language, this book considers whether these strategies, far from being indispensable guides to thinking, might in fact lead social theorists to misunderstand the concepts constitutive of social life. 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. A lucid explication of Ordinary Language Philosophy and the potential that it offers for deepening and re-orienting theoretical work in the social sciences, this volume, apart from being a challenge to the influential Critical Realist paradigm, constitutes a radical critique of social theoretical reason. As such, it will appeal to social theorists and philosophers of social science, those with interests in research methods and theory construction, and anyone interested in thinking clearly about society.
Wittgenstein
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Author : David Bloor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Wittgenstein written by David Bloor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Philosophy categories.
Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein And Kuhn
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Author : John G. Gunnell
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein And Kuhn written by John G. Gunnell and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception. In this book, Gunnell shows how these philosophers address foundational issues in the social and human sciences, particularly the vision of social inquiry as an interpretive endeavor and the distinctive cognitive and practical relationship between social inquiry and its subject matter. Gunnell speaks directly to philosophers and practitioners of the social and human sciences. He tackles the demarcation between natural and social science; the nature of social phenomena; the concept and method of interpretation; the relationship between language and thought; the problem of knowledge of other minds; and the character of descriptive and normative judgments about practices that are the object of inquiry. Though Wittgenstein and Kuhn are often criticized as initiating a modern descent into relativism, this book shows that the true effect of their work was to undermine the basic assumptions of contemporary social and human science practice. It also problematized the authority of philosophy and other forms of social inquiry to specify the criteria for judging such matters as truth and justice. When Wittgenstein stated that "philosophy leaves everything as it is," he did not mean that philosophy would be left as it was or that philosophy would have no impact on what it studied, but rather that the activity of inquiry did not, simply by virtue of its performance, transform the object of inquiry.