Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason
Subtitle: Peter Winch's Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 12, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415253024
First sentence: Peter Winch's book The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy and essay "Understanding a primitive society" (hereafter, 1SS and UPS, respectively) have had a profound impact on how philosophers and social scientists view the study of human behavior and society.