Explanation and understanding in the human sciences
Mahajan, GurpreetAuthor
New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Causation
Social sciences
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
Speculative Philosophy