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Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn : Leaving Everything as It Is.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231538343
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and KuhnDDC classification:
  • 190.904
LOC classification:
  • H61.15 -- .G86 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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: A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception.
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Intro -- 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.

A distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn's approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conception.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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