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  • Wittgenstein among the Sciences

    Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

    by Rupert Read, Edited by Simon Summers ...
    Series series Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
    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 ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • On What Matters

    Volume Two

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology

    by Kerry E Howell ...
    This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building an understanding of the relationships and distinctions between philosophical positions and paradigms ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Translated by Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1

    Philosophical Papers

    by Richard Rorty ...
    Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Feyerabend

    Philosophy, Science and Society

    by John Preston ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science.The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from Wittgenstein's conception of meaning onto Popper's falsificationist philosophy. The key elements of Feyerabend's model of the acquisition of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Reflexive Methodology

    New Vistas for Qualitative Research

    by Mats Alvesson, Kaj Skoldberg ...
    Praise for the Second Edition:"In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, cognitive, theoretical, ... Read more

    $111.59 USD

  • Richard Rorty

    by Neil Gascoigne ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of philosophy alike how the radical views on truth, objectivity and rationality expressed in Rorty’s widely-read essays on contemporary culture and politics derive from his earliest work in the philosophy of mind and language. He avoids the partisanship that ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Bakhtin and the Human Sciences

    No Last Words

    Edited by Michael Gardiner, Michael Mayerfeld Bell ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin′s thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays′ implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin′s work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as ... Read more

    $117.89 USD

  • Philosophies of Qualitative Research

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    Series series Understanding Qualitative Research
    In Philosophies of Qualitative Research, Svend Brinkmann explores the different philosophical paradigms and ideas that influence qualitative research today. Adopting a historical perspective, the book shows readers exactly how philosophical ideas have evolved and influenced qualitative research in both the past and present. Today, qualitative researchers tend to report on their philosophical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Does Anything Really Matter?

    Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD