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x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of
methodologi cal individualism, a debate which continues to this
day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in
contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general
area of philosophy of social science would be considered complete
unless they contained at least one of Watkins's many contributions
to the discussion of this issue. In 1957 Watkins published the
flrst of a series of three papers (1957b, 1958d and 196Oa) in which
he tried to codify and rehabilitate metaphysics within the
Popperian philosophy, placing it somewhere between the analytic and
the empirical. He thus signalled the emergence of an important
implica tion of Popper's thought that had not to that point been
stressed by Sir Karl himself, and which marked off his followers
from the antimetaphysical ideas of the regnant logical positivists.
In 1965 years of work in political philosophy and in the history of
philosophy in the seventeenth century were brought to fruition in
Watkins's widely cited and admired Hobbes's System of Ideas (1965a,
second edition 1973d). This book is an important contribution not
just to our understanding of Hobbes's political thinking, but,
perhaps more importantly, to our understanding of the way in which
a system of ideas is constituted and applied. Watkins built on
earlier work in developing an account of Hobbes's ideas in which
was revealed and clarifled the unity of Hobbes's metaphysical,
epistemological and political ideas."
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center
of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics,
where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship.
Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance
of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a
defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral
spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as
useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor
sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology;
rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie
remained an anthro pologist at heart, who, in addition to some
studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological
molds, also studied the tribe of social scien tists, but also
critically examining their problems - especially their overall,
rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the
studies in cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific
issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in
the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive
sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on
account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and
powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his
own intellectual workshop over the last two decades."
Contents: Mark Notturno, Christoph von Mettenheim, Adam Chmielewski, Sir Ernst Gombrich David Miller University of Warwick, Andrzej Flis Uniwesytet Jagiellonski, Poland, John A. Hall, Ian C. Jarvie University of York, Toronto, John Watkins, Sandra Pralong Director of the Open Society Foundation in Romania, Bryan Magee, Joseph Agassi, Cyril Hóschl, Fred Eidlin University of Guelph, Ontario
When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself
to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day,
Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell,
who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the
project that was to put him on the intellectual map. The first
determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of
the movement, Words and Things remains philosophy's most
devastating attack on a conventional wisdom to this day.
Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct
ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic
theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.
Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three
distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing;
aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical
expression.
x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of
methodologi cal individualism, a debate which continues to this
day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in
contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general
area of philosophy of social science would be considered complete
unless they contained at least one of Watkins's many contributions
to the discussion of this issue. In 1957 Watkins published the
flrst of a series of three papers (1957b, 1958d and 196Oa) in which
he tried to codify and rehabilitate metaphysics within the
Popperian philosophy, placing it somewhere between the analytic and
the empirical. He thus signalled the emergence of an important
implica tion of Popper's thought that had not to that point been
stressed by Sir Karl himself, and which marked off his followers
from the antimetaphysical ideas of the regnant logical positivists.
In 1965 years of work in political philosophy and in the history of
philosophy in the seventeenth century were brought to fruition in
Watkins's widely cited and admired Hobbes's System of Ideas (1965a,
second edition 1973d). This book is an important contribution not
just to our understanding of Hobbes's political thinking, but,
perhaps more importantly, to our understanding of the way in which
a system of ideas is constituted and applied. Watkins built on
earlier work in developing an account of Hobbes's ideas in which
was revealed and clarifled the unity of Hobbes's metaphysical,
epistemological and political ideas."
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center
of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics,
where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship.
Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance
of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a
defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral
spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as
useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor
sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology;
rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie
remained an anthro pologist at heart, who, in addition to some
studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological
molds, also studied the tribe of social scien tists, but also
critically examining their problems - especially their overall,
rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the
studies in cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific
issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in
the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive
sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on
account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and
powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his
own intellectual workshop over the last two decades."
Hollywood's Overseas Cammpaign is a history of how the American
film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada
and Great Britain in the period 1920-1950. Written in three parts,
the book shows how well organized and effective the American
industry was overseas, addressing Hollywood operations in Canada
and various unsuccessful official attempts to curb them, and in
Great Britain where legislation was enacted to control them,
achieving some but by no means complete success. The study deals
with the complexity of the situation in the United States, where
the film industry coped with internal divisions, hostile pressure
groups, and ambivalent administrations and shows that the secret of
success is in the mastery of organization and supply.
Hollywood's Overseas Cammpaign is a history of how the American
film industry succeeded in dominating the film markets of Canada
and Great Britain in the period 1920-1950. Written in three parts,
the book shows how well organized and effective the American
industry was overseas, addressing Hollywood operations in Canada
and various unsuccessful official attempts to curb them, and in
Great Britain where legislation was enacted to control them,
achieving some but by no means complete success. The study deals
with the complexity of the situation in the United States, where
the film industry coped with internal divisions, hostile pressure
groups, and ambivalent administrations and shows that the secret of
success is in the mastery of organization and supply.
When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself
to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day,
Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell,
who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the
project that was to put him on the intellectual map. "Words and
Things" was the first determined attempt to state the premises and
operational rules of the movement. The basic charge was that
Linguistic Philosophy was an aberrant, trivializing perversion of
good philosophical practice, substituting, in place of honest
theorizing and argument, pedantic scrutiny of intrinsically
uninteresting detail. When this now-famous critique originally
appeared in 1959, it created a scandal, causing a flurry of
correspondence in the Times. "Words and Things" remains the most
devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this
day.
- what is the relationship between the social sciences and the
natural sciences? - where do today's dominant approaches to doing
social science come from? - what are the main fissures and debates
in contemporary social scientific thought? - how are we to make
sense of seemingly contrasting approaches to how social scientists
find out about the world and justify their claims to have knowledge
of it? In this exciting handbook, Ian Jarvie and Jesus
Zamora-Bonilla have put together a wide-ranging and authoritative
overview of the main philosophical currents and traditions at work
in the social sciences today. Starting with the history of social
scientific thought, this handbook sets out to explore that core
fundamentals of social science practice, from issues of ontology
and epistemology to issues of practical method. Along the way it
investigates such notions as paradigm, empiricism, postmodernism,
naturalism, language, agency, power, culture, and causality.
Bringing together in one volume leading authorities in the field
from around the world, this book will be a must-have for any
serious scholar or student of the social sciences.
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