A R Louch
Biographic Data
| ID | 303239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A R Louch |
| GIVEN NAMES | A R |
| FAMILY NAME | Louch |
| SIGNATURE | LOUCH A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Discourse on Methodology: A Reply to Ernest Gellner
Criticism and Theory
OST OF THE ESSAYS in this issue are exercises in variously conceived, but generally used in a way that pushes readers and spectators very much into the background. The plan (one sees this especially in the contributions of Todorov and Brooke-Rose) is to bypass criticism and its evaluative categories by conceiving art works as objects, data on which a classifying science of literary forms can be built, with a view of predicting developments or ret…
II Against A. R. Louch
Animate Illusions. Explanations of Narrative Structure
The Political Sciences
History as Narrative
I propose to examine the technique of narrative as it is used by historians, in order to show that it is not merely an incidental, stylistic feature of the historian's craft, but essential to the business of historical explanation. There is no reason to suppose that what I have to say is limited to history as it is usually conceived; examples could be found as well in biology, cosmology, and biography. But history will serve as a standard example…
Explanation and Human Action
Explanation and human action
The very idea of a social science
In The Idea of a Social Science Winch, argues that, sociology is more properly conceived as a branch of philosophy than of empirical science. Winch falls victim here to the Humean assimilation of the empirical to the generalizable. He notes that much of our talk about social practice is in terms of conventions, so that explanations of social action can be given without recourse to statistical or experimental findings. But such talk depends noneth…
Science and Psychology
“The use” of moral language
Explanation and human action
The very idea of a social science
In The Idea of a Social Science Winch, argues that, sociology is more properly conceived as a branch of philosophy than of empirical science. Winch falls victim here to the Humean assimilation of the empirical to the generalizable. He notes that much of our talk about social practice is in terms of conventions, so that explanations of social action can be given without recourse to statistical or experimental findings. But such talk depends noneth…
History as Narrative
I propose to examine the technique of narrative as it is used by historians, in order to show that it is not merely an incidental, stylistic feature of the historian's craft, but essential to the business of historical explanation. There is no reason to suppose that what I have to say is limited to history as it is usually conceived; examples could be found as well in biology, cosmology, and biography. But history will serve as a standard example…
Explanation and Human Action
“The use” of moral language
Science and Psychology
The very idea of a social science
In The Idea of a Social Science Winch, argues that, sociology is more properly conceived as a branch of philosophy than of empirical science. Winch falls victim here to the Humean assimilation of the empirical to the generalizable. He notes that much of our talk about social practice is in terms of conventions, so that explanations of social action can be given without recourse to statistical or experimental findings. But such talk depends noneth…
Explanation and human action
Explanation and Human Action
History as Narrative
I propose to examine the technique of narrative as it is used by historians, in order to show that it is not merely an incidental, stylistic feature of the historian's craft, but essential to the business of historical explanation. There is no reason to suppose that what I have to say is limited to history as it is usually conceived; examples could be found as well in biology, cosmology, and biography. But history will serve as a standard example…
The Political Sciences
II Against A. R. Louch
Animate Illusions. Explanations of Narrative Structure
Criticism and Theory
OST OF THE ESSAYS in this issue are exercises in variously conceived, but generally used in a way that pushes readers and spectators very much into the background. The plan (one sees this especially in the contributions of Todorov and Brooke-Rose) is to bypass criticism and its evaluative categories by conceiving art works as objects, data on which a classifying science of literary forms can be built, with a view of predicting developments or ret…
A Discourse on Methodology: A Reply to Ernest Gellner
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)