Tools
ToolsRead, Rupert (2012) Wittgenstein among the Sciences Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4094-3054-4
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Philosophy (former - to 2014) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein |
| Depositing User: | Davide Rizza |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2012 14:07 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:10 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/38462 |
| DOI: |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |