John G Gunnell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1025518 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John G Gunnell |
| PRENOMES | John G |
| SOBRENOME | Gunnell |
| ASSINATURA | GUNNELL J G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Albany State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0299-8129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry
Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry
Scholasticism at Berkeley
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Social Inquiry and the Pursuit of Reality
Although social scientists have been devoted to discovering specific realities of social life, many theorists devoted to critical judgment have turned to philosophy in search of universal grounds of truth and reality. They have, however, worried about the problem of relativism. Although Wittgenstein has often been characterized as a relativist, Cora Diamond, inspired by G. E. M Anscombe, argues that his work, despite internal tensions, provides r…
The Jefferson Rule
Journal Article The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible Get access By David Sehat. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. viii, 308 pp. $27.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw028 Published: 01 June 2016
A Response to Commentators
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Pluralism and the Fate of Perestroika
Although a great deal has been written about the perestroika movement in turn-of-the century political science its actual place in the history of the discipline has been poorly understood by its founders, defenders, and critics. Perestroika can be best understood as a manifestation of the persistent crises of identity that have characterized the discipline of political science, and it cannot be explained apart from the manner in which it was refl…
Interpretation’ and the ‘Empirical
Reorienting political theory
Politics and Biology
Man Is by Nature a Political Animal: Evolution, Biology, and Politics. Edited by Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 352p. $80.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott's Man Is by Nature a Political Animal brings together some of the most important social scientists working at the intersection of political science, psychology, biology, and cognitive neuroscience. Given recent advan…
Leaving everything as it is
What really matters
The Reconstitution of Political Theory
During the last half of the twentieth century, the concept of system was arguably the most important concept in the theoretical repertoire of the discipline of American political science. Although systems analysis was broadly employed in the behavioral sciences, David Easton's work was particularly influential in the study of politics. This is in part because he attempted to develop a distinct account of the political system that was not theoreti…
Modern Pluralism
Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. Liberal pluralism helped reinforce and promote greater separation of political and religious spheres. Socialist pluralism promoted the political role of trade unions and the rise of corporatism. Empirical pluralism helped legitimate the role of interest groups in democratic government. Today pluralism inspires thinking about key issues such as multiculturalism and network…
Social scientific inquiry and meta-theoretical fantasy
The turn to the philosophy of scientific realism as a meta-theory for the study of International Relations manifests a reluctance to confront the basic problem of the relationship between philosophy and social scientific inquiry. Despite the realists' rejection of traditional empiricism, and particularly the instrumentalist account of scientific theory, the enthusiasm for realism neglects many of the same problems that, more than a generation ear…
Max Weber in America
Lawrence A. Scaff’s account of Max Weber’s sojourn in the United States is a singular scholarly achievement. Scaff has made an important contribution not only to the scholarship on Weber, to which he had already added a great deal, but also to the history of social science and American intellectual history. The work is sensitive to the contexts of American and European thought, and in such a short space it is difficult to convey the depth and bre…
Winch Reassessed
Hutchinson, Read, and Sharrock have provided an important analysis of the work of Peter Winch. They succeed in rescuing his philosophy from many of the distorting characterizations and categorizations to which it has been subjected, and they provide a fresh account of its relevance for thinking about the theory and practice of social science
Professing Political Theory
Political theorists cannot reasonably maintain an institutional attachment to the discipline of political science and claim a place in the curriculum of the field while professing intellectual autonomy. Political theory is the progeny of American political science, as well as a subfield of the discipline, and it is important to dispel mythologies of political theory as a separate world-historical endeavor. Political theorists, like all social sci…
Political Inquiry and the Metapractical Voice
Discussions of Max Weber's essay on “The `Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy” and Michael Oakeshott's reflections “On the Theoretical Understanding of Human Conduct” have seldom included a detailed textual analysis of the arguments. Such an analysis is important, because these essays not only thoroughly addressed the issue of the nature of social scientific inquiry but uniquely confronted and illuminated two fundamental…
Ideology and the philosophy of science
There are significant flaws in recent claims that Thomas Kuhn's work was an apology for American Cold War ideology and a manifestation of the transformation of logical positivism from a politically motivated philosophy to an apolitical account of the logic of science. These arguments present an inaccurate account of important aspects of the European origins of positivism and its post-emigration career in the United States, and they misinterpret t…
Can Social Science Be Just
Despite the extensive commentary on the work of Peter Winch, there has been inadequate recognition of how his Idea of a Social Science discerned the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for confronting issues regarding the nature and interpretation of social phenomena. Winch's subsequent confrontation with anthropology can be further illuminated by examining one of the most contentious contemporary debates in this field. This case illustrate…
Are We Losing Our Minds? Cognitive Science and the Study of Politics
Contemporary literature in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind points to the locus of significant unresolved theoretical and methodological issues in political theory and political science, and particularly to the persistently anomalous status of mental concepts. The manner in which political and social theorists have accessed and deployed this literature, however, has been highly selective and conceptually problematical. The purpose has…
The European Geneses of American Political Science
Although American political science is, as Bernard Crick emphasised, in many respects a distinctly American science of politics, its evolution has been deeply informed by European ideas. This was quite obviously the case during the nineteenth century, when the German concept of the state dominated the discourse of the field, as well as in the early part of the twentieth century, when English scholars made significant contributions to the theory o…
Political Science
Research Article| January 01 2006 Political Science: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy John G. Gunnell John G. Gunnell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (1): 21–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711234 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John G. Gunnell; Political Science: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (1): 21–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.23…
Dislocated Rhetoric
Although the estranged relationship between mainstream political science and much of the subfield of political theory has been properly attributed to developments during the last half of the twentieth century, the roots of this alienation are historically deeper. Many of the conversations of political theory are the progeny of a discursive form that attended the birth of modern social science. This genre was a legitimating rhetoric situated in th…
The Founding of the American Political Science Association
In the evolution of the social sciences, disciplines (forms of research, training, and instruction) preceded professions (distinct occupational identities). Although professionalism has often been viewed as a conservative force, what was arguably the most prominent transformation in the history of political science was the result of a professional challenge to the discipline. The founding of the American Political Science Association represented …
American Political Science, Liberalism, and the Invention of Political Theory
The contemporary estrangement of political theory from political science is in large measure the product of a quarrel that originated in the challenge to the values of U.S. political science initiated by émigré scholars during the 1940s. The behavioral revolution was in an important respect a conservative rebellion in defense of the values of liberalism and related notions of science, relativism, and historical progress that had traditionally inf…
The Myth of the Tradition
Leo Strauss's epic rendition of the history of Western political philosophy has been a principal factor in the establishment and perpetuation of the myth of the tradition or the belief that the conventional series of classic works from Plato to Nietzsche represents the development of modern political ideas and constitutes the core of an inherited pattern of thought which, in turn, provides the basic context for interpreting particular texts. Much…
Can Political Science History be Neutral
In the December 1988 issue of thisReview, John Dryzek and Stephen Leonard argued the need for "context-sensitive" histories of the discipline of political science. In their view, disciplinary history must guide practical inquiry if it is to be most useful. The course of their argument draws the criticisms of three political scientists concerned about the history of political science-James Farr, John Gunnell, and Raymond Seidelman. Dryzek and Leon…
The Genealogy of American Pluralism
Although the concept of pluralism is often equated with democracy in the language of American political science, and in accounts of contemporary trends toward democratization in other countries, both the critique of pluralist theory that began in the 1960s and the early history of the concept suggest the need to reflect on that equation. Pluralism is a concept that often appears in the language of politics, but its systematic meaning is largely a…
Symposium on Scientific Explanation in Political Science
The purpose here is to explore certain aspects of the philosophy of science which have serious implications both for the practice of social and political science and for understanding that practice. The current relationship between social science and the philosophy of science (or the philosophy of the social sciences) is a curious one. Despite the emergence of a considerable body of literature in philosophy which is pertinent to the methodologica…
Political Science on the Cusp
As Thomas Kuhn noted, it is almost inevitable that scientific practitioners read the history of their field backward and perceive earlier stages as, at best, prototypical of the present. This is the manner in which political scientists, and even historians, have imaged the relationship between the debates about science and democracy that took place during the 1920s and 1950s. Despite the importance of Charles Merriam's role in the history of Amer…
The Technocratic Image and the Theory of Technocracy
In recent years there has been growing concern about technocracy as a both in modern industrial societies and in developing or Third World countries. However, students have confronted a difficulty in studying technocracy: the analysis of the phenomenon, the definition of the problem, and the prescription of remedies have been both informed and constrained by variations of an image that has a long history in Western thought. There has been not so …
Realizing Theory
Contemporary issues in the philosophy of science, and the recent turn to scientific realism in political theory, prompt both a reconsideration of the nature of theory in social scientific inquiry and an examination of current attempts to appropriate philosophical arguments in support of images of theory and the relationship between social science and political practice. Metatheoretical claims about the explanation of social phenomena and about th…
Leaving everything as it is
Are We Losing Our Minds? Cognitive Science and the Study of Politics
Contemporary literature in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind points to the locus of significant unresolved theoretical and methodological issues in political theory and political science, and particularly to the persistently anomalous status of mental concepts. The manner in which political and social theorists have accessed and deployed this literature, however, has been highly selective and conceptually problematical. The purpose has…
Pluralism and the Fate of Perestroika
Although a great deal has been written about the perestroika movement in turn-of-the century political science its actual place in the history of the discipline has been poorly understood by its founders, defenders, and critics. Perestroika can be best understood as a manifestation of the persistent crises of identity that have characterized the discipline of political science, and it cannot be explained apart from the manner in which it was refl…
Professing Political Theory
Political theorists cannot reasonably maintain an institutional attachment to the discipline of political science and claim a place in the curriculum of the field while professing intellectual autonomy. Political theory is the progeny of American political science, as well as a subfield of the discipline, and it is important to dispel mythologies of political theory as a separate world-historical endeavor. Political theorists, like all social sci…
Dislocated Rhetoric
Although the estranged relationship between mainstream political science and much of the subfield of political theory has been properly attributed to developments during the last half of the twentieth century, the roots of this alienation are historically deeper. Many of the conversations of political theory are the progeny of a discursive form that attended the birth of modern social science. This genre was a legitimating rhetoric situated in th…
Relativism
La preoccupation premiere de la theorie politique academique du relativisme est une expression reprimee ou une substitution du probleme de la theorie et la pratique ou, plus specifiquement, du probleme de rapport entre le discours academique et le discours public
The Reconstitution of Political Theory
During the last half of the twentieth century, the concept of system was arguably the most important concept in the theoretical repertoire of the discipline of American political science. Although systems analysis was broadly employed in the behavioral sciences, David Easton's work was particularly influential in the study of politics. This is in part because he attempted to develop a distinct account of the political system that was not theoreti…
Can Social Science Be Just
Despite the extensive commentary on the work of Peter Winch, there has been inadequate recognition of how his Idea of a Social Science discerned the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for confronting issues regarding the nature and interpretation of social phenomena. Winch's subsequent confrontation with anthropology can be further illuminated by examining one of the most contentious contemporary debates in this field. This case illustrate…
Desperately Seeking wittgenstein
It has been notoriously difficult to link Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work to the agendas of academic political theory. While this is in part due to his style of writing and the absence of an explicit discussion of politics, his commitment to the irreducibility of conventions is difficult to reconcile with the search of many political theorists for both criteria of political essentiality and a basis of cognitive privilege that would underwrite a vision…
The archaeology of American liberalism
Few concepts have featured more prominently in the evolution of political science and academic political theory than liberalism. While its place in contemporary conversations is quite evident, the path through which it became a central element in the discursive structure of these fields has been more obscure and often misunderstood. Liberalism is one of a class of concepts that originated in politics but which was appropriated by political scienc…
Political Theory and the Theory of Action
T HHE PURPOSE of this essay is to present the basic elements of a theory of human action and to suggest their relevance for claims about political phenomena. Although it would be desirable to offer the analysis of action without an introduction and justification, there are at least two reasons why such a move might be problematical. First, this type of analysis, and even the idea of what is referred to here as does not have an accepted place with…
The Jefferson Rule
Journal Article The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible Get access By David Sehat. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. viii, 308 pp. $27.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw028 Published: 01 June 2016
What really matters
Ideology and the philosophy of science
There are significant flaws in recent claims that Thomas Kuhn's work was an apology for American Cold War ideology and a manifestation of the transformation of logical positivism from a politically motivated philosophy to an apolitical account of the logic of science. These arguments present an inaccurate account of important aspects of the European origins of positivism and its post-emigration career in the United States, and they misinterpret t…
The Real Revolution in Political Science
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Strauss Before Straussianism
Despite the impact of Leo Strauss on American political science and political theory, where, exactly, Strauss was “coming from,” in both senses of that phrase, has been far from clear. Carl Friedrich, reviewing the, at that point, unknown author's book on Hobbes, noted that Strauss might have been more forthcoming about his own position, but he believed that it was safe to conclude that he was a “historical relativist.” Friedrich may have been cl…
Science and the Philosophy of Science
Since both Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Gregor have limited their responses principally to my specific criticisms of the deductive model, it would seem appropriate to emphasize once more the purpose of this criticism. The issue which I wish to raise, using the discussion of the deductive model as a vehicle, goes far beyond the model itself and even the approach to the philosophy of science which it represents. It should be apparent that there may be litt…
Symposium on Scientific Explanation in Political Science
The purpose here is to explore certain aspects of the philosophy of science which have serious implications both for the practice of social and political science and for understanding that practice. The current relationship between social science and the philosophy of science (or the philosophy of the social sciences) is a curious one. Despite the emergence of a considerable body of literature in philosophy which is pertinent to the methodologica…
Political Philosophy and Time
Philosophy & Political Science
The Myth of the Tradition
Leo Strauss's epic rendition of the history of Western political philosophy has been a principal factor in the establishment and perpetuation of the myth of the tradition or the belief that the conventional series of classic works from Plato to Nietzsche represents the development of modern political ideas and constitutes the core of an inherited pattern of thought which, in turn, provides the basic context for interpreting particular texts. Much…
Philosophy, Science and Politics
Political Science and the Theory of Action Prolegomena
Philosophy and Political Theory
THIS ESSAY CONSISTS OF A COLLECTION OF ARGUMENTS WHICH have been more fully developed elsewhere but are presented here in rather summary form in order to point towards a fundamental problem concerning the present status of political theory in the discipline of political science. This problem is not easily defined; but the difficulty recalls Alfred Cobban's complaint twenty-five years ago that political theory had become disen aged Lom ‘political …
Encounters of a Third Kind
During the past three decades, political theory in political science has become increasingly dependent upon metatheoretical arguments in formal academic philosophy and other fields. Both in terms of its content and the definition of its enterprise, historical, empirical and normative theory has in many respects become a sublimate of the literature of philosophical methodology, metaethics and other disciplines. Philosophical conceptions of theory,…
Political Theory and the Theory of Action
T HHE PURPOSE of this essay is to present the basic elements of a theory of human action and to suggest their relevance for claims about political phenomena. Although it would be desirable to offer the analysis of action without an introduction and justification, there are at least two reasons why such a move might be problematical. First, this type of analysis, and even the idea of what is referred to here as does not have an accepted place with…
Books in Review
Interpretation and the History of Political Theory
Recent challenges to traditional approaches and purposes for studying the history of political theory have raised questions about its constitution as both a subject matter and subfield of political science. Methodological arguments advocating what is characterized as a more truly historical mode of inquiry for understanding political ideas and recovering textual meaning have become increasingly popular. The relationship of these hermeneutical cla…
The Technocratic Image and the Theory of Technocracy
In recent years there has been growing concern about technocracy as a both in modern industrial societies and in developing or Third World countries. However, students have confronted a difficulty in studying technocracy: the analysis of the phenomenon, the definition of the problem, and the prescription of remedies have been both informed and constrained by variations of an image that has a long history in Western thought. There has been not so …
Books in Review
English local government
II. Political Theory and Politics
American Political Science, Liberalism, and the Invention of Political Theory
The contemporary estrangement of political theory from political science is in large measure the product of a quarrel that originated in the challenge to the values of U.S. political science initiated by émigré scholars during the 1940s. The behavioral revolution was in an important respect a conservative rebellion in defense of the values of liberalism and related notions of science, relativism, and historical progress that had traditionally inf…
The Conquest of Politics
The Nature of Contemporary Political Science
What is the nature of contemporary political science? What shared concerns bind us together as a discipline, providing a common definition and direction to our intellectual enterprise? These questions were on my mind as I organized the section on formal and normative political theory for the 1989 APSA meetings. Initially, I had wanted to sponsor a panel to address the nature of formal and normative theory. I knew I was a bit uncertain about the p…
Can Political Science History be Neutral
In the December 1988 issue of thisReview, John Dryzek and Stephen Leonard argued the need for "context-sensitive" histories of the discipline of political science. In their view, disciplinary history must guide practical inquiry if it is to be most useful. The course of their argument draws the criticisms of three political scientists concerned about the history of political science-James Farr, John Gunnell, and Raymond Seidelman. Dryzek and Leon…
Books in Review
Strauss Before Straussianism
Despite the impact of Leo Strauss on American political science and political theory, where, exactly, Strauss was “coming from,” in both senses of that phrase, has been far from clear. Carl Friedrich, reviewing the, at that point, unknown author's book on Hobbes, noted that Strauss might have been more forthcoming about his own position, but he believed that it was safe to conclude that he was a “historical relativist.” Friedrich may have been cl…
Relativism
La preoccupation premiere de la theorie politique academique du relativisme est une expression reprimee ou une substitution du probleme de la theorie et la pratique ou, plus specifiquement, du probleme de rapport entre le discours academique et le discours public
Notizie Sui Collaboratori Di Questo Numero
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Realizing Theory
Contemporary issues in the philosophy of science, and the recent turn to scientific realism in political theory, prompt both a reconsideration of the nature of theory in social scientific inquiry and an examination of current attempts to appropriate philosophical arguments in support of images of theory and the relationship between social science and political practice. Metatheoretical claims about the explanation of social phenomena and about th…
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