Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of InquiryState University of New York Press, 1984 M06 30 - 364 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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... human action that includes the notions of purpose and deliberative activity . ( 4 ) The challenge of Heidegger and Gadamer in philosophical hermeneutics to the idea of a 2. METHODOLOGY FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES Positivism.
... human action that includes the notions of purpose and deliberative activity . ( 4 ) The challenge of Heidegger and Gadamer in philosophical hermeneutics to the idea of a 2. METHODOLOGY FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES Positivism.
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... activity which answers our historically given problems with the conceptual tools that are available or can be created at the time . Knowledge claims are accepted by a community when they have the power to convince the community that ...
... activity which answers our historically given problems with the conceptual tools that are available or can be created at the time . Knowledge claims are accepted by a community when they have the power to convince the community that ...
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... activities that are used to achieve research results . Methods include various experimental designs , sam- pling procedures , measuring instruments , and the statistical treatment of data . The word method retains the meaning of its ...
... activities that are used to achieve research results . Methods include various experimental designs , sam- pling procedures , measuring instruments , and the statistical treatment of data . The word method retains the meaning of its ...
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... activity , for the method is shaped by its implicit or explicit reference to a particular system of inquiry . The meaning of a particular research conduct is determined by the context of its system of " going after " knowledge . This ...
... activity , for the method is shaped by its implicit or explicit reference to a particular system of inquiry . The meaning of a particular research conduct is determined by the context of its system of " going after " knowledge . This ...
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... activity , and thinking is therefore a kind of motion . Mind is simply the name for the sum of a person's thinking activities ; it is thus nothing but a series of motions in an animal organism . Consciousness , or mind , can be studied ...
... activity , and thinking is therefore a kind of motion . Mind is simply the name for the sum of a person's thinking activities ; it is thus nothing but a series of motions in an animal organism . Consciousness , or mind , can be studied ...
Contents
The Received View of Science | 59 |
Theoretical Networks | 71 |
The Human Sciences and the Deductive System of Inquiry | 87 |
Pragmatic Science | 93 |
Sciences as Expressions of Various | 103 |
Systems and Structures | 135 |
Human Action | 169 |
Linguistic Accounts | 192 |
ExistentialPhenomenological and Hermeneutic Systems | 201 |
Human Science Research | 241 |
Use of Linguistic Data | 258 |
Concluding Remarks | 279 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 325 |
Index | 343 |
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activity analysis apodictic approach argument basic behavior believed causal cause certainty concept consciousness context cultural deductive system described developed Dilthey Dilthey's discourse empirical empiricism example experience explanation expressions function Hempel hermeneutic historical human action human phenomena human realm human science Humanistic Psychology hypothesis Ibid individual inductive inference instance interaction interpretation investigation Jürgen Habermas kind knowledge claims language game laws linguistic logical positivism logical positivists meaning mental events method methodology notion objects observation organizing particular patterns Paul Ricoeur Peirce perception person phenomenological Philosophy of Science physical sciences position positivists postpositivist problem proposed psychology question rational reality received view refer relationship Ricoeur scientific scientists sensation sense data social science statements Stephen Toulmin structures systems of inquiry teleological theory trans truth understanding University Press valid various Vienna circle whole Wilhelm Dilthey Wittgenstein words York