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Author Gunnell, John G., author

Title Social inquiry after Wittgenstein & Kuhn : leaving everything as it is / John G. Gunnell
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages .)
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Thomas Kuhn and the Shadow of Wittgenstein; 2. Wittgenstein and Social Theory; 3. Mind, Meaning, and Interpretation; 4. Investigating the Investigations; 5. Conventional Objects, Concepts, and the Practice of Interpretation; 6. Interpreting Science: Kuhn as a Social Theorist; 7. Wittgenstein on the Moon: Certainty, Truth, and Value; References; Index
Summary John G. Gunnell argues that a distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry and that Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception. He further contends that their work addresses foundational issues in the social and human sciences and particularly the vision of social inquiry as an interpretive endeavor, as well as the distinctive cognitive and practical relationship between social inquiry and its subject matter. Gunnell speaks directly to philosophers and practitioners of t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996.
SUBJECT Kuhn, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1922-1996 fast (OCoLC)fst00015867
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 fast (OCoLC)fst00032844
Subject Social sciences -- Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014008130
ISBN 0231538340
9780231538343
Other Titles Social inquiry after Wittgenstein and Kuhn