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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11647183.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-195) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 201 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791445119 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791445127 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "302.5/42 21".
- catalog subject "H61 .R569 2000".
- catalog subject "Social sciences Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Social sciences Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Woodcutters and witchcraft : rationality and interpretive change in the social sciences / Mark W. Risjord.".
- catalog type "text".