Wittgenstein among the Sciences - Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method' (Hardcover, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Rupert Read • Edited by Simon Summers
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-3054-4
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LSN:	1-4094-3054-5
Barcode:	9781409430544

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