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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... proposed that they should emulate the methods used in the natural sciences . Before the beginning of this century , Dilthey and the neo - Kantians ix of the Southwest German school argued that such a strategy List of Illustrations Preface.
... proposed that they should emulate the methods used in the natural sciences . Before the beginning of this century , Dilthey and the neo - Kantians ix of the Southwest German school argued that such a strategy List of Illustrations Preface.
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... proposal . Thus psychology , sociology , economics , and anthropology have adopted the methods of the natural ... proposals calling for qualitative and nonexperimental de- signs that are based on teleological , reasonable , or ...
... proposal . Thus psychology , sociology , economics , and anthropology have adopted the methods of the natural ... proposals calling for qualitative and nonexperimental de- signs that are based on teleological , reasonable , or ...
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... proposed upon which the claims of certainty could be grounded - Plato's realm of ideas , Descartes's clear and distinct ideas in consciousness , the empiricists ' realm of sense data , and the rationalists ' realm of logical and ...
... proposed upon which the claims of certainty could be grounded - Plato's realm of ideas , Descartes's clear and distinct ideas in consciousness , the empiricists ' realm of sense data , and the rationalists ' realm of logical and ...
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... propose a unified view of science . Its point is not that the positivist conception of what constitutes proper methods for obtaining certain knowledge should be replaced by another conception of how apodictic knowledge should be ...
... propose a unified view of science . Its point is not that the positivist conception of what constitutes proper methods for obtaining certain knowledge should be replaced by another conception of how apodictic knowledge should be ...
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... proposed in a dissertation or an article , the community assumes the role of skeptic and questions the truth of the ... proposals for the adequacy of any kind of knowledge depend upon the nature of the doubts to which they are a response ...
... proposed in a dissertation or an article , the community assumes the role of skeptic and questions the truth of the ... proposals for the adequacy of any kind of knowledge depend upon the nature of the doubts to which they are a response ...
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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