Felix Kaufmann S Theory And Method In The Social Sciences

Author : Robert S. Cohen,Ingeborg K. Helling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319028453

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Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences by Robert S. Cohen,Ingeborg K. Helling Pdf

This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to abstract natural science and psychology. The core focus of the study is the attempt to elucidate how and under what conditions scientific knowledge about social facts, empirically justified and theoretically embedded, can be obtained. The empirical basis of knowledge within the social sciences forms a phenomenological concept of experience. According to Kaufmann, this concept of experience exhibits a complex structure. Within the meaning-interpretation of human action as the core of knowledge in the social sciences, this structure reaches out across the isolated act of verification toward the synthesis of external and internal experiences. The book opens with a detailed and useful introduction by Ingeborg K. Helling, which introduces the historical and theoretical background of Kaufmann's study and specifically illuminates his relation to Alfred Schütz and John Dewey. Finally, it contains interviews with and letters to members of his family, colleagues and students.

Author : Felix Kaufmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : UCAL:B4095686

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Methodology of the Social Sciences by Felix Kaufmann Pdf

Author : Maria Carla Galavotti,Elisabeth Nemeth,Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319018997

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European Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage by Maria Carla Galavotti,Elisabeth Nemeth,Friedrich Stadler Pdf

This volume combines the theoretical and historical perspective focusing on the specific features of a European philosophy of science. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Institute Vienna Circle the Viennese roots and influences will be addressed, in addition. There is no doubt that contemporary philosophy of science originated mainly in Europe beginning in the 19th century and has influenced decisively the subsequent development of globalized philosophy of science, esp. in North America. Recent research in this field documents some specific characteristics of philosophy of science covering the natural, social, and also cultural sciences in the European context up to the destruction and forced migration caused by Fascism and National Socialism. This European perspective with the integration of history and philosophy of science and the current situation in the philosophy of science after the transatlantic interaction and transformation, and the “return” after World War II raises the question of contemporary European characteristics in the philosophy of science. The role and function of the renowned Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism and its impact and influence on contemporary philosophy of science is on the agenda, too. Accordingly, the general topic is dealt with in two parallel sessions representing systematic-formal as well as genetic-historical perspectives on philosophy of science in a European context up to the present.​

Author : Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319165615

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The Vienna Circle by Friedrich Stadler Pdf

This abridged and revised edition of the original book (Springer-Wien-New York: 2001) offers the only comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle based on new sources with an innovative historiographical approach to the study of science. With reference to previously unpublished archival material and more recent literature, it refutes a number of widespread clichés about "neo-positivism" or "logical positivism". Following some insights on the relation between the history of science and the philosophy of science, the book offers an accessible introduction to the complex subject of "the rise of scientific philosophy” in its socio-cultural background and European philosophical networks till the forced migration in the Anglo-Saxon world. The first part of the book focuses on the origins of Logical Empiricism before World War I and the development of the Vienna Circle in "Red Vienna" (with the "Verein Ernst Mach"), its fate during Austro-Fascism (Schlick's murder 1936) and its final expulsion by National-Socialism beginning with the "Anschluß" in 1938. It analyses the dynamics of the Schlick-Circle in the intellectual context of "late enlightenment" including the minutes of the meetings from 1930 on for the first time published and presents an extensive description of the meetings and international Unity of Science conferences between 1929 and 1941. The chapters introduce the leading philosophers of the Schlick Circle (e.g., Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Felix Kaufmann, Edgar Zilsel) and describe the conflicting interaction between Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the long term communication between Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as between the Vienna Circle with Heinrich Gomperz and Karl Popper. In addition, Karl Menger's "Mathematical Colloquium" with Kurt Gödel is presented as a parallel movement. The final chapter of this section describes the demise of the Vienna Circle and the forced exodus of scientists and intellectuals from Austria. The second part of the book includes a bio-bibliographical documentation of the Vienna Circle members and for the first time of the assassination of Moritz Schlick in 1936, followed by an appendix comprising an extensive list of sources and literature.

Author : Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030043780

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Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence by Friedrich Stadler Pdf

This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach. It explores his life, work, and legacy. Readers will gain a better understanding of this natural scientist and scholar who made major contributions to physics, the philosophy of science, and physiological psychology. The essays offer a critical inventory of Mach’s lifework in line with state-of-the-art research and historiography. It begins with physics, where he paved the way for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The account continues with Mach's contributions in biology, psychology, and physiology pioneering with an empiricist and gestalthaft Analysis of Sensations. Readers will also discover how in the philosophy of science he served as a model for the Vienna Circle with the Ernst Mach Society as well as paved the way for an integrated history and theory of science. Indeed, his influence extends far beyond the natural sciences -- to the Vienna Medical School and psychoanalysis (R. Bárány, J. Breuer, S. Freud), to literature (Jung Wien, R. Musil), to politics (F. Adler, Austro-Marxism and the Viennese adult education), to arts between Futurism and Minimal Art as well as to social sciences between the liberal school (J. Schumpeter, F. A. von Hayek) and empirical social research (P. Lazarsfeld und M. Jahoda).

Author : Lee McIntyre,Alex Rosenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315410081

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science by Lee McIntyre,Alex Rosenberg Pdf

37 Why Is There No Philosophy of Political Science?

Author : Seung Ho Park,Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez,Dinorá Eliete Floriani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030424121

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The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Sustainability in the Digital Era by Seung Ho Park,Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez,Dinorá Eliete Floriani Pdf

This handbook addresses the intersection between corporate sustainability and digital transformation. It analyzes the challenges and transformations required to be able to have sustainable businesses with a future orientation. Topics include current and potential social, demographic, technological, and managerial trends; the implications of the digital revolution in society and business; as well as the challenges of being sustainable, and profitable. Providing an understanding of the business reasons to incorporate a future orientation into the business strategy, this handbook facilitates an understanding of the need for profound changes in individual behavior, organizational culture, public policy, and business environments to adapt to the accelerated changes and manage business with orientation to the future.

Author : Christopher Berry Grey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135582760

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The Philosophy of Law by Christopher Berry Grey Pdf

From articles centering on the detailed and doctrinal exposition of the law to those which reside almost wholly within the realm of philosophical ethics, this volume affords comprehensive treatment to both sides of the philosophico-legal equation. Systematic and sustained coverage of the many dimensions of legal thought gives ample expression to the true breadth and depth of the philosophy of law, with coverage of: The modes of knowing and the kinds of normativity used in the law; Studies in international, constitutional, criminal, administrative, persons and property, contracts and tort law-including their historical origins and worldwide ramifications; Current legal cultures such as common law and civilian, European, and Aboriginal; Influential jurisprudents and their biographies; All influential schools and methods

Author : Christian Damböck,Adam Tamas Tuboly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030803636

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The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge by Christian Damböck,Adam Tamas Tuboly Pdf

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism. This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics. Including papers from an international group of scholars, The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism addresses these topics and makes them available to scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science.

Author : Michael D. Barber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0791461416

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The Participating Citizen by Michael D. Barber Pdf

An in-depth biography of the philosopher who brought phenomenology to the social sciences.

Author : Michaela Pfadenhauer,Hubert Knoblauch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429885457

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Social Constructivism as Paradigm? by Michaela Pfadenhauer,Hubert Knoblauch Pdf

Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann’s classic foundational text, The Social Construction of Reality. Addressing the work’s contribution to establishing social constructivism as a paradigm and discussing its potential for current questions in social theory, the contributing authors indicate the various cultural understandings and theoretical formulations that exist of social construction, its different fields of research and the promising new directions for future research that it presents in its most recent developments. A study of the importance of a work that established a paradigm in the international sociology of knowledge, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social theory, the history of the social sciences and the significance of social constructivism.

Author : Alexander Linsbichler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319461700

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Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist? by Alexander Linsbichler Pdf

This book presents a concise introduction to the epistemology and methodology of the Austrian School of economics as defended by Ludwig von Mises. The author provides an innovative interpretation of Mises’ arguments in favour of the a priori truth of praxeology, the received view of which contributed to the academic marginalisation of the Austrian School. The study puts forward a unique argument that Mises – perhaps unintentionally – defends a form of conventionalism. Chapters in the book include detailed discussions of individualism, historicism, epistemological positions, and essentialism. The author goes on to discuss Mises’ justification of the fundamental axiom and proposes a conventionalist interpretation. By presenting praxeology as a conventionalist research programme, the author aims to reinvigorate the interaction between the Austrian School, mainstream economics, and the philosophy of science. This comprehensive reconstruction is suitable for economists interested in the history and philosophy of their discipline, as well as for philosophers of science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004420502

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Formal and Informal Methods in Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

The title of this book refers to the tension between formal and informal elements in the ways analytical philosophy is practiced. The authors examine questions of the scopes and limits of both kinds of research methods.

Author : Arnold Brecht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400878550

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Political Theory by Arnold Brecht Pdf

In this distinguished work Arnold Brecht, who served under more than a dozen German Chancellors and whose work in defense of democracy received recognition by the Adenauer government in 1953, surveys the philosophical and scientific foundations of political theory in the twentieth century. His wide-ranging treatise sweeps over the entire scope of this century's contributions, including the philosophical, juridical, scientific, sociological, methodological, and historical. The book is a pioneering effort toward an integrated presentation, a first attempt to offer a comprehensive modern political theory. The aim is both a systematic presentation and a full description of the recent genesis of thought. The pertinent teachings of representative writers-some from the past (from Hume and Kant to Darwin, Mill, and Marx) and most of the present century (from Peirce, James, Simmel, and Weber to Husserl, Dewey, Lasswell, Northrop, and Fuller) are analyzed. Dr. Brecht incorporates, chapter by chapter, his own contributions. Social scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and students of religion will find it a challenging guide, written with penetrating clarity and rich in fruitful suggestions. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Lester Embree
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319136530

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The Schutzian Theory of the Cultural Sciences by Lester Embree Pdf

This work is devoted to developing as well as expounding the theory of the cultural sciences of the philosopher Alfred Schutz (1899-1959). Drawing on all of Schutz’s seven volumes in English, the book shows how his philosophical theory consists of the reflective clarifications of the disciplinary definitions, basic concepts, and distinctive methods of particular cultural sciences as well as their species and genus. The book first expounds Schutz’s own theories of economics, jurisprudence, political science, sociology, and psychology. It then extends his approach to other disciplines, offering new theories of archaeology, ethnology, and psychotherapy in his spirit in order to stimulate the development of Schutzian theories in these and other disciplines. The second part of the book contains complementary philosophical chapters devoted to culture, groups, ideal types, interdisciplinarity, meaning, relevance, social tension, and verification.