Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of InquirySUNY Press, 1983 M01 1 - 349 pages Methodology for the Human Sciences addresses the growing need for a comprehensive textbook that surveys the emerging body of literature on human science research and clearly describes procedures and methods for carrying out new research strategies. It provides an overview of developing methods, describes their commonalities and variations, and contains practical information on how to implement strategies in the field. In it, Donald Polkinghorne calls for a renewal of debate over which methods are appropriate for the study of human beings, proposing that the results of the extensive changes in the philosophy of science since 1960 call for a reexamination of the original issues of this debate. The book traces the history of the deliberations from Mill and Dilthey to Hempel and logical positivism, examines recently developed systems of inquiry and their importance for the human sciences, and relates these systems to the practical problems of doing research on topics related to human experience. It discusses historical realism, systems and structures, phenomenology and hermeneutics, action theory, and the implications recent systems have for a revised human science methodology. |
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... apodictic knowledge should be produced . Instead , postpositivism challenges the tradition that knowledge actually is apodictic truth . Postpositivism holds that we do not have access to indubitable truths . The knowledge claims that a ...
... apodictic knowledge should be produced . Instead , postpositivism challenges the tradition that knowledge actually is apodictic truth . Postpositivism holds that we do not have access to indubitable truths . The knowledge claims that a ...
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... apodictic truths . These movements have brought about a concept of science as a human activity which answers our historically given problems with the conceptual tools that are available or can be created at the time . Knowledge claims ...
... apodictic truths . These movements have brought about a concept of science as a human activity which answers our historically given problems with the conceptual tools that are available or can be created at the time . Knowledge claims ...
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... apodictic knowledge — absolute , in- dubitable certainty — has been accepted by Western epistemologists , and almost ... apodictic certainty . If the apodictic standard is to be applied , it is possible that most of the things we ...
... apodictic knowledge — absolute , in- dubitable certainty — has been accepted by Western epistemologists , and almost ... apodictic certainty . If the apodictic standard is to be applied , it is possible that most of the things we ...
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... apodictic standard , and empiricists have claimed that internal sense experience ( not to be confused with projected ... apodictic and problematic . Either a prop- osition is infallible and beyond doubt or it is dubious and therefore not ...
... apodictic standard , and empiricists have claimed that internal sense experience ( not to be confused with projected ... apodictic and problematic . Either a prop- osition is infallible and beyond doubt or it is dubious and therefore not ...
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... apodictic knowledge is impossible , because human beings cannot stand outside their language systems and cultures and obtain an absolute viewpoint . All of our knowledge is conditional knowledge , constructed within our conceptual ...
... apodictic knowledge is impossible , because human beings cannot stand outside their language systems and cultures and obtain an absolute viewpoint . All of our knowledge is conditional knowledge , constructed within our conceptual ...
Contents
The Original Debate | 15 |
Positivism | 16 |
The AntiPositivist Response | 20 |
The Recurring Debate | 51 |
Summary | 56 |
The Received View of Science | 59 |
The Vienna Circle | 60 |
Theoretical Networks | 71 |
Causal Explanations | 173 |
Acausal Explanations | 183 |
Linguistic Accounts | 192 |
Practical Reasoning | 195 |
ExistentialPhenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems | 201 |
The ExistentialPhenomenological System of Inquiry | 203 |
Hermeneutics Interpretation | 215 |
Interpretation and the Human Sciences | 237 |
The Human Sciences and the Deductive System of Inquiry | 87 |
Pragmatic Science | 93 |
Criticism of the Received View | 94 |
Sciences as Expressions of Various World Outlooks | 103 |
Historical Realism | 116 |
Systems and Structures | 135 |
Structuralism and Human Systems | 152 |
Systems Inquiry and Methodology | 166 |
Human Action | 169 |
The Nature of Human Action | 170 |
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