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J Tim O’meara

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ID2893508
NAMEJ Tim O’meara
GIVEN NAMESJ Tim
FAMILY NAMEO’meara
SIGNATUREO’MEARA J T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT3
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX2
  • Causation and the postmodern critique of objectivity

    Open Access•J Tim O’meara•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2001•Cited by: 3•References: 38

    Advocates of what are loosely called interpretive, critical, and now postmodern theories reject the possibility of objective knowledge and instead assert the subjectivity of knowable phenomena. According to their critique, facts and realities are socially constructed and politically negotiated, and therefore subjective rather than objective. The concept of objectivity itself is taken to be a tool of hegemonic discourse, and science is just politi…

  • Paths toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry. Michael Jackson

    J Tim O''Meara, J Tim O’meara et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•1990

  • Anthropology As Empirical Science

    Open Access•J Tim O''Meara, J Tim O’meara et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1989•Cited by: 16•References: 32

    Many anthropologists argue that human affairs are subjective and therefore outside the realm of empirical science. While this position is based on important observations about the process of understanding human affairs, the arguments employed do not imply that the application of empirical science to the explanation of human affairs is either impossible or inappropriate, as some critics maintain

  • Anthropology As Empirical Science

    Open Access•J Tim O''Meara, J Tim O’meara et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1989•Cited by: 16•References: 32

    Many anthropologists argue that human affairs are subjective and therefore outside the realm of empirical science. While this position is based on important observations about the process of understanding human affairs, the arguments employed do not imply that the application of empirical science to the explanation of human affairs is either impossible or inappropriate, as some critics maintain

  • Causation and the postmodern critique of objectivity

    Open Access•J Tim O’meara•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2001•Cited by: 3•References: 38

    Advocates of what are loosely called interpretive, critical, and now postmodern theories reject the possibility of objective knowledge and instead assert the subjectivity of knowable phenomena. According to their critique, facts and realities are socially constructed and politically negotiated, and therefore subjective rather than objective. The concept of objectivity itself is taken to be a tool of hegemonic discourse, and science is just politi…

  • Anthropology As Empirical Science

    Open Access•J Tim O''Meara, J Tim O’meara et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1989•Cited by: 16•References: 32

    Many anthropologists argue that human affairs are subjective and therefore outside the realm of empirical science. While this position is based on important observations about the process of understanding human affairs, the arguments employed do not imply that the application of empirical science to the explanation of human affairs is either impossible or inappropriate, as some critics maintain

  • Paths toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry. Michael Jackson

    J Tim O''Meara, J Tim O’meara et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•1990

  • Causation and the postmodern critique of objectivity

    Open Access•J Tim O’meara•ARTICLE•Anthropological Theory•2001•Cited by: 3•References: 38

    Advocates of what are loosely called interpretive, critical, and now postmodern theories reject the possibility of objective knowledge and instead assert the subjectivity of knowable phenomena. According to their critique, facts and realities are socially constructed and politically negotiated, and therefore subjective rather than objective. The concept of objectivity itself is taken to be a tool of hegemonic discourse, and science is just politi…

Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Assertion (1 works)

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