Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences : : A Case for Methodological Pluralism / / Paul A. Roth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Roth, Paul A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: The Rationalitatstreit --; 1. Knowledge Denatured --; 2. Epistemology Socialized --; 3. The Rites of Rationality --; 4. Methods Unbound --; 5. Who Needs Paradigms? --; 6. Pseudoproblems in Social Science: The Myth of Meaning Realism --; 7. Voodoo Epistemology: The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Science --; 8. Voodoo Epistemology: Causality and the Strong Programme --; 9. Resolving the Rationalitatstreit --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746215; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746215
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul A. Roth.

Paul A Roth's book examines an important controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences that has developed since the demise of logical positivism and its conception of rationality. Roth contends that this controversy—a dispute over the canons of rationality—is the product of the mistaken belief in methodological exclusivism. Drawing on work in contemporary epistemology by W. V. O. Quine, Richard Rorty, and Paul Feyerabend, he argues that no single theory of human behavior has methodological priority; indeed, the existence of a plethora of theories for the study of human behavior, he believes, is an inevitable consequence of our epistemic situation.