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Max Weber and Charles Peirce - At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture (Paperback)
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Max Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science,
Philosophy, and Culture shows that a relational conception of
science is implicit in Max Weber's reflections on scientific
inquiry as a bridge between the Geisteswissenschaften (soft
sciences) and Naturwissenschaften (hard sciences). Because he is
not a trained philosopher, Weber does not have the precise
philosophical language in which to articulate his ideas clearly.
Consequently, his relational vision of science remains obscure.
Basit Bilal Koshul brings clarity and precision to Weber's insights
using the pragmaticist philosophy of Charles Peirce. He makes
explicit the phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that are implicit
in Weber's methodological writings and translates them into
Peircean terms. Since Peirce explicitly offers his philosophy of
science as a critique of the modern divide between the humanistic
and natural sciences and of the divide between religion and
science, this translation has a double effect. It clarifies Weber's
insights on the methodology of scientific inquiry, and it extends
the reparative force of these insights into the larger culture of
which science is one part. The reconstruction of Weber's relational
conception of science along the lines of Peirce's pragmaticism, in
turn, reveals that Weber's work points toward deep affinities
between religion and science. Given the fact that the same
phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that underpin Peirce's
philosophy of science are also at the root of his philosophy of
religion, we can begin to appreciate the fact that Weber's work
makes an important contribution to bridging the divide between
religion and science. In providing models that bridge divides and
move towards complementary relationships, Weber and Peirce not only
help us to better understand disenchantment as the fate of our
times, but also offer uniquely valuable resources to reach for
cultural horizons that lie beyond it.
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