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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page x
... empirical philosophy of sci- ence , which was the form in which the single - science approach triumphed , has failed to hold up under continued self - examination . It had been assumed that the logical - empirical system provided a ...
... empirical philosophy of sci- ence , which was the form in which the single - science approach triumphed , has failed to hold up under continued self - examination . It had been assumed that the logical - empirical system provided a ...
Page 16
... empirical investigation , begun by the crafts guilds during the Middle Ages , gradually accelerated , and it even- tually burst forth as a " great awakening " during the late Renaissance period and the Baroque era . Francis Bacon's ...
... empirical investigation , begun by the crafts guilds during the Middle Ages , gradually accelerated , and it even- tually burst forth as a " great awakening " during the late Renaissance period and the Baroque era . Francis Bacon's ...
Page 19
... empirical approach , carrying it through its logical - empirical period and bring- ing it to the beginnings of its breakdown with the discovery of quantum physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and with changes in the ...
... empirical approach , carrying it through its logical - empirical period and bring- ing it to the beginnings of its breakdown with the discovery of quantum physics at the beginning of the twentieth century and with changes in the ...
Page 20
... empirical approach to human phenomena . In The New Science , Vico resisted the trend by asserting that we can gain a true knowledge of human phenomena through the study of our history . We can understand history , he said , because we ...
... empirical approach to human phenomena . In The New Science , Vico resisted the trend by asserting that we can gain a true knowledge of human phenomena through the study of our history . We can understand history , he said , because we ...
Page 24
... empirical base for true knowledge . His argument with the positivists was not over their concern to build a knowledge freed from the traditional sources of revelation and pure reason , but over the question of what is the appropriate ...
... empirical base for true knowledge . His argument with the positivists was not over their concern to build a knowledge freed from the traditional sources of revelation and pure reason , but over the question of what is the appropriate ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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