Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences

A Case for Methodological Pluralism

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ID7103148
AuthorsPaul A Roth (0000-0002-9531-4365, corresponding author)
Year1989
Publication date1989-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMeaning and Method in the Social Sciences (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501746215
OpenAlexW4229607917
ISBN9781501746215
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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

Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Pluralism (philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology

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