Practice and the Human Sciences
Subtitle: The Case for a Judgment-Based Practice of Care (S U N Y Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780791461990
Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Psychology; Psychotherapy - Counseling; Politics - Current Events; Human Services; Philosophy
Description: "Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of using their own judgment. Donald E. Polkinghorne assembles the case for the return to judgment-based practice for the professions that engage in direct person-to-person interaction with those they serve. Set in the larger context of the technification of society, Polkinghorne draws from Weber, Heidegger, Ihde, Bourdieu, de Certeau, and other philosophers to trace the advancing power of the technological worldview in Western culture and uses Aristotle, Dewey and Gadamer to help make his case that we should be doing things very differently."--BOOK JACKET.