I C Jarvie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93610 |
|---|---|
| NOME | I C Jarvie |
| PRENOMES | I C |
| SOBRENOME | Jarvie |
| ASSINATURA | JARVIE I C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 113 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 442 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid
The ongoing efforts to explain the disease COVID-19 and the parallel efforts to devise and implement public health measures that mitigate it, are an opportunity to reconsider the values of science as identified to Merton. What is revealed is that science is always partial and always tentative. This leaves much scope for magical thinking and for flat science denial
Popper and Agassi at Odds
Three main conflicts between Popper and Agassi are discussed. Over the ethics of hard work which in reality turns out to be over perfectionism and optimism. Over the role of metaphysics in science. Over methodological individualism where is it argued that Popper's views are contradictory and that Agassi' Institutionalism prevails
Institutions as a Philosophical Problem
The symposium on Francesco Guala’s Understanding Institutions was thought provoking. Five critical papers took issue with Guala’s reconciliation of the game-theoretical view of institutions and the rule-governed view. We offer some critical commentary that adopts a different perspective. We agree that institutions are central to social life and, thus, also to the social sciences; they are also prior to and more fundamental than individuals. We ad…
Response to Shankman
This response to Shankman’s 2018 concedes some points, corrects others, and emphasizes the importance of error to the progress of science
Art and Aesthetics
Art and aesthetics are found in all societies. Some art is concrete (paintings, sculptures, buildings, books), some is not (performances, musical works, poetry). Such social theories as classical economics, dialectical materialism, evolutionism, and functionalism all try to demystify art and aesthetics by reducing artistic value and the assessment of artistic value to their favored social models. Yet none of these is satisfactory. Artistic value …
Mead and the Trajectory of Anthropology in the United States
Peter Mandler's Return from the Natives examines Margaret Mead mid-career when she devoted much energy to promoting anthropology and anthropologists to government and industry and positioned herself as a prominent social commentator. By the time she returned to the field after an interlude of 14 years, something had happened to her professionally: she was treated as a bit of an embarrassment, no longer a scientific heavyweight, and much of this s…
Pornography Stumps Analytic Philosophers of Art
A book in which analytic philosophers examine the portrayal of sex in art and the possible artistic value of pornography proves a disappointment. Although a transcendental objection to pornographic art is rebutted, the papers employ barren philosophical methods that divert energy away from significant problems and into scholastic quibbles
Noble Savages, Ignoble Colleagues
Chagnon narrates the ups and downs of his career, how he managed to document the basic ethnography of the Yanomamö of Amazonia, and the loss of scientific compass in American anthropology that brought a good deal of personal villification and the end of his research. The reviewer endorses the view that organized American anthropology is in an intellectually sorry state but argues that Chagnon’s anthropology of anthropology is lacking
The Freeman-Mead Controversy Revisited
Shankman holds that Derek Freeman “trashed” Margaret Mead’s reputation as a public intellectual by portraying her as a naïve and gullible anthropologist who perpetrated a serious error about adolescence in American Samoa. Shankman concedes that Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa was factually in error but argues that her reputation in anthropology did not rest on it but rather on her extensive works on other societies. Ostensibly about Samoa, her book…
Introduction
The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences
Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms, Methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandeville to Mannheim - Joseph Agassi Continental Philosophies of the Social Sciences - David Teira The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20th Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitatstreit - Paul Roth PART TWO: CE…
Por uma sociologia crítica da ciência
Neste artigo crítico e construtivo, defendemos que a Sociologia da Ciência, como está estabelecida, é distorcida por uma suposta filosofia idealista que estimula uma atitude acrítica em relação ao que se supõe serem fatos. Propomos uma sociologia crítica da ciência que faz a distinção entre ciência, ciência aplicada e tecnologia; enfoca a falibilidade da ciência e da sociologia da ciência que desconstrói toda pretensão de autoridade. Construtivam…
Dissent about Descent
Pace Fuller, religion is neither necessary nor sufficient a condition for the development of evolutionary biology. Their historical connection notwithstanding, they are better considered as separate systems of ideas, in parallel to the manner in which they separated themselves as systems of institutions. As to schooling, enriched teaching of the real history of biology should be sufficient
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought
The Cold War And The Movie Industry
Contributions to the Social and Economic History of British Cinema
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time
Fuller on Science
Wittgenstein's poker
History on Television
(2001). History on Television. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 97-99
Freeman on Mead Again
Science in a Democratic Republic
Polanyi's and Popper's defenses of the status quo in science are explored and criticized. According to Polanyi, science resembles a hierarchical and tradition-oriented republic and is necessarily conservative; according to Popper's political philosophy the best republic is social democratic and reformist. By either philosopher's lights science is not a model republic; yet each claims it to be so. Both authors are inconsistent in failing to apply …
The Emergence of British Social Anthropology According to George Stocking
Presentation de deux ouvrages de G. Stocking consacres a l'histoire de l'anthropologie anglaise: «After Taylor» et «Method and ethic» (1996). Examinant la concurrence des ecoles americaines et anglaises a la fin du XIX e siecle, l'A. montre que l'anthropologie evolutionniste de Taylor cede au courant culturaliste de F. Boas
Is Analytic Philosophy the Cure for Film Theory
Deplorant l'absence d'une reflexion esthetique sur le cinema et denoncant l'amalgame des systeme theoriques (psychanalytique, marxiste, semiologique) appliques a la theorie du film, l'A. montre que la philosophie analytique ne tient pas ses promesses de clarte et de precision concernant l'interpretation des oeuvres cinematographiques, d'une part, et que les differentes positions developpees par C. A. Freeland («Philosophy and Film», 1995), R. All…
Situational Logic and Its Reception
Popper holds to the unity of scientific method: any differences between natural and social science are a product of theory, not a pretheoretical premise. Distin guishing instead pure and applied generalizing sciences, Popper focuses on the different role of laws in each. In generalizing social science, our tools are the logic of the situation, including the rationality principle, and unintended conse quences. Situations contain individuals, but a…
Out of Context
A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
I use an old observation (that religion is anthropomorphistic) to solve a problem almost as old (why do people have religious beliefs?) by arguing that religion is a special case of the more general phenomenon of anthropomorphism. This view suggests that religious belief, often thought nonempirical and cognitively anomalous, is as much based in experience as is nonreligious belief and that it consists in a plausible application of significant mod…
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time
The Problem of Ethical Integrity in Participant Observation
Participant observation precipitates role-clashes: stranger/friend, participant/observer. Ultimately, the stranger, the observer, role overrides. This solution not only preserves the anthropologist's integrity, but also actually advances his work; it is his lack of a fixed and defined role, or his shifting about among the various roles, that enables him to get at information which would otherwise be inaccessible. The offical philosophy of fieldwo…
Epistle to the Anthropologists1
Lack of theoretical progress, among other things, indicates a genuine intellectual crisis in anthropology. Previously, the author advocated a more consciously critical and falsificationist set of methodological rules as a remedy. Fabian has shown that this is not sufficient. He argues that there is an uncritical positivism built-in to anthropology, which leads to ontological, epistemological, and moral error. Metaphysics as well as method needs r…
The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: Preface. John A. HALL and Ian JARVIE: The Life and Times of Ernest Gellner. PART 1 INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND. Ji_i MUSIL: The Prague Roots of Ernest Gellner's Thinking. Chris HANN: Gellner on Malinowski: Words and Things in Central Europe. Tamara DRAGADZE: Ernest Gellner in the Soviet East. PART 2 NATIONS AND NATIONALISM. Brendan O'LEARY: On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationa…
Rationality and Relativism
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
The Problem of the Rationality of Magic
The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences
Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms, Methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandeville to Mannheim - Joseph Agassi Continental Philosophies of the Social Sciences - David Teira The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20th Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitatstreit - Paul Roth PART TWO: CE…
Models of Man
On Professional Ethics and Epistemological Foundations
Magic and Rationality Again
Situational Logic and Its Reception
Popper holds to the unity of scientific method: any differences between natural and social science are a product of theory, not a pretheoretical premise. Distin guishing instead pure and applied generalizing sciences, Popper focuses on the different role of laws in each. In generalizing social science, our tools are the logic of the situation, including the rationality principle, and unintended conse quences. Situations contain individuals, but a…
Science in a Democratic Republic
Polanyi's and Popper's defenses of the status quo in science are explored and criticized. According to Polanyi, science resembles a hierarchical and tradition-oriented republic and is necessarily conservative; according to Popper's political philosophy the best republic is social democratic and reformist. By either philosopher's lights science is not a model republic; yet each claims it to be so. Both authors are inconsistent in failing to apply …
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Symbolic readings of ritual acts rely on a distinction between the symbolic and the instrumental that is hard to sustain. In order that we take public lectures and academic papers-which are certainly ritual acts-intellectually seriously, it is enough that they not be obviously false. A further argument against reading them symbolically is that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there.…
Frazer and Malinowski
Fanning the flames
1981). Fanning the flames: anti-American reaction to operation Burma (1945). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 117-137
Art, Behavior, and the Anthropologists [and Comments and Reply]
Can Social activities be understood as having important and persistent social functions which are unintended by members of the society in which they are performed? In arguing that the answer is no, I draw methodological comparisons between aesthetic criticism is shown to make use of a broader sense of "intention" than many anthropologists have wished to employ in describing the functional significance of social activities. Yet the persistent func…
Recent Work in the History of Anthropology and its Historiographic Problems
Symbolic Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Using the hermeneutical theory of Paul Ricoeur, it is possible to discern symbolic dimensions in cultural anthropology. Symbols, here, are dominant images in anthropologists' texts, creatively posited by inquirers, that, most importantly, possess a surplus of meaning. A symbol's fullest surplus of meaning is a prereflexive and comprehensive "understanding" (Verstehen) that may encompass a scholar's attempts at "explanation" (Erklaren). Examples o…
Structural and Eclectic Revisions of Marxist Strategy
Many anthropologists are no longer hesitant to identify themselves as Marxists, but along with this common identification there has developed a raging dispute as to what a Marxist anthropology is all about. Recent critiques of cultural materialism, the avowedly Marxist strategy developed by Marvin Harris, have attacked it for being a "vulgar" or "mechanical" interpretation of Marx. Two of these critiques, those of Jonathan Friedman and H. Dieter …
Towards a Theory of Openness to Criticism
On Theories of Fieldwork and the Scientific Character of Social Anthropology
The following intellectual as opposed to practical reasons for all anthropologists doing fieldwork are examined: fieldwork: (1) records dying societies, (2) corrects ethnocentric bias, (3) helps put customs in their true context, (4) helps get the “feel” of a place, (5) helps to get to understand a society from the inside, (6) enables appreciation of what translating one culture into terms of another involves, (7) makes one a changed man, (8) pro…
Nadel on the Aims and Methods of Social Anthropology
Nadel on the Aims and Methods of Social Anthropology
Theories of Cargo Cults
Theories of Cargo Cults
Explanation in Social Science
Key Problems of Sociology
The Social Character of Technological Problems
There is great deal in Professor Skolimowski's very interesting paper with which I fully agree, especially, perhaps, his thesis that technology is not to be identified with science and that it has different philosophy and methodology. If there is single problem that is central to Skolimowski's paper it is perhaps his statement that science has single aim, the pursuit of knowledge or truth; can similar, simple aim be ascribed to technology? Skolim…
Frazer and Malinowski
On the explanation of cargo cults
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On Theories of Fieldwork and the Scientific Character of Social Anthropology
The following intellectual as opposed to practical reasons for all anthropologists doing fieldwork are examined: fieldwork: (1) records dying societies, (2) corrects ethnocentric bias, (3) helps put customs in their true context, (4) helps get the “feel” of a place, (5) helps to get to understand a society from the inside, (6) enables appreciation of what translating one culture into terms of another involves, (7) makes one a changed man, (8) pro…
Other
The Problem of the Rationality of Magic
Comparative Functionalism
Comments and Replies
On the Relevance of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Film and the communication of values
Viewing a movie can often be a powerful experience, leaving a deep impression. Particularly when that experience is worrying or upsetting, it may challenge people's values. This leads one to question what values movies have, where they acquire them, and whether they are (e.g. inadvertently) making propaganda for violence
The Problem of Ethical Integrity in Participant Observation
Participant observation precipitates role-clashes: stranger/friend, participant/observer. Ultimately, the stranger, the observer, role overrides. This solution not only preserves the anthropologist's integrity, but also actually advances his work; it is his lack of a fixed and defined role, or his shifting about among the various roles, that enables him to get at information which would otherwise be inaccessible. The offical philosophy of fieldwo…
Hong Kong
Written prior to the arrival of Asian Studies as an academic discipline, the volumes in this set were greeted as ground-breaking, eye-opening and exciting by the critics of the day. Containing in-depth analysis of education, politics, wealth, family, housing and leisure in rural and urban areas of Japan, China and Hong Kong, these books are key reading for students and researchers in Asian, Development and Urban Studies
Hong Kong
IV—McLuhan, System-Study and Technological Determinism
On Professional Ethics and Epistemological Foundations
Movies and Society
Movies and Society
Concepts and Society
Book Reviews Concepts and Society. BY I. C. Jarvie. (London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1972. Pp. xvi + 214. Price £2.50) Elizabeth Vallance Elizabeth Vallance Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 93, October 1973, Pages 372–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218074 Published: 01 October 1973
Magic and Rationality Again
Concepts and Society
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