Wittgenstein among the sciences
Subtitle: Wittgensteinian investigations into the "scientific method"
By: by Rupert Read with Simon Summers
Contributors: Summers, Simon
Series: Philosophy and method in the social sciences
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781409430544; 9781409430551
Subjects: Methodology; Philosophy; Social sciences; Philosophy and social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: Editor's introduction; title: Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and natural science : science : a perspicuous presentation; title: Kuhn : the Wittgenstein of the sciences?; title: Kuhn on incommensurability : inhabiting the standard reading; title: Wittgenstein on incommensurability : the view from "inside"; title: Values : another kind of incommensurability?; title: Does Kuhn have a model of science?; title: Inter-section : a schematic elicitation of Wittgensteinian criteria; title: Wittgenstein, Winch, and "human science" : social science; title: The ghost of Winch's ghost; title: Psychiatry; title: The hard case of (severe cases of) schizophrenia; title: Extreme aversive emotions; title: Economics; title: Wittgenstein contra Friedman; title: Cognitive science; title: "Dissolving" the hard problem of consciousness back into ordinary life; title: Conclusions; title: Concluding summary; title: Interview with Rupert Read (conducted by the editor); title: Bibliography; title: Index.