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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... investigation . The special characteristics of the human realm are outlined , with particular emphasis placed on the use and importance of the linguistic data type for research in the human realm . Underlying the selection of materials ...
... investigation . The special characteristics of the human realm are outlined , with particular emphasis placed on the use and importance of the linguistic data type for research in the human realm . Underlying the selection of materials ...
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... investigations in the philosophy of science , along with the development of alternative systems of inquiry , have brought about vast changes in our understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise . The context in which the ...
... investigations in the philosophy of science , along with the development of alternative systems of inquiry , have brought about vast changes in our understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise . The context in which the ...
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... 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 Novum Organum ...
... 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 Novum Organum ...
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... investigating the natural world.8 Naturalism held that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and ... investigation are quite different . . . . To measure aspects of human behavior . . . is usually more difficult than ...
... investigating the natural world.8 Naturalism held that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and ... investigation are quite different . . . . To measure aspects of human behavior . . . is usually more difficult than ...
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... investigate this " human - added " realm . Although there was agreement among the anti - positivists that the human realm needed to be included in the sciences , no single program of methods for studying this realm gained preeminence ...
... investigate this " human - added " realm . Although there was agreement among the anti - positivists that the human realm needed to be included in the sciences , no single program of methods for studying this realm gained preeminence ...
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