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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... Expressions of Various World Outlooks 103 The Fifth Phase : Historical Realism 116 4 Systems and Structures 135 Systems Structuralism and Human Systems Systems Inquiry and Methodology 5 Human Action 135 152 166 169 The Nature of Human ...
... Expressions of Various World Outlooks 103 The Fifth Phase : Historical Realism 116 4 Systems and Structures 135 Systems Structuralism and Human Systems Systems Inquiry and Methodology 5 Human Action 135 152 166 169 The Nature of Human ...
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... expression by four different , though somewhat overlapping , movements in the last several decades . ( 1 ) The " linguistic turn " in the philosophy of science as expressed in Wittgenstein's later writings . The implications of this ...
... expression by four different , though somewhat overlapping , movements in the last several decades . ( 1 ) The " linguistic turn " in the philosophy of science as expressed in Wittgenstein's later writings . The implications of this ...
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... expressions of mean- ing , needed to be comprehended apart from events in nature . More- over , the realm created by human action - the cultural realm- needed to be comprehended with a kind of reason akin to Kant's practical reason ...
... expressions of mean- ing , needed to be comprehended apart from events in nature . More- over , the realm created by human action - the cultural realm- needed to be comprehended with a kind of reason akin to Kant's practical reason ...
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... expression " life " denotes what is to everyone the most familiar and intimate , but at the same time the darkest ... expressions of human life must also be included— for instance , the laws that guide conduct , the religions that are ...
... expression " life " denotes what is to everyone the most familiar and intimate , but at the same time the darkest ... expressions of human life must also be included— for instance , the laws that guide conduct , the religions that are ...
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... expressions . Its goal is to understand the order that underlies the process of human existence , an order that provides the form for experience . Dilthey's " philosophy of life " proposes that the only proper focus for human science is ...
... expressions . Its goal is to understand the order that underlies the process of human existence , an order that provides the form for experience . Dilthey's " philosophy of life " proposes that the only proper focus for human science is ...
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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