Clarity and confusion in social theory : taking concepts seriously / Leonidas Tsilipakos.

By: Tsilipakos, Leonidas
Language: English Series: Philosophy and method in the social sciencesPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Routledge, 2015Description: 1 online resource (187 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781472432414Subject(s): Sociology -- Philosophy | Social sciences -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 301.01 LOC classification: HM585 | .T76 2015Online resources: Full text available at ProQuest Ebook Central Click here to view
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Sociology and Ordinary Language Philosophy: A Dialogue; 2 What Achilles said to Hempel: Unrealistic Restrictions and the Idea of Explanation as a Matter of Form; 3 Ordinary Language Philosophy as Logic; 4 Ontological Confusion in Social Theory; 5 Continuing Ontological Confusion: The Constitution and Application of an Ontological Scheme; 6 Some Problems with 'The Problem of Structure and Agency'; Conclusion; Postscript; References; Index.
Summary: Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedures often employed in social theory for dealing with concepts, offering alternative approaches to social scientists and philosophers for tackling the conceptual issues that have so bedevilled social science from its inception.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.

Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Sociology and Ordinary Language Philosophy: A Dialogue; 2 What Achilles said to Hempel: Unrealistic Restrictions and the Idea of Explanation as a Matter of Form; 3 Ordinary Language Philosophy as Logic; 4 Ontological Confusion in Social Theory; 5 Continuing Ontological Confusion: The Constitution and Application of an Ontological Scheme; 6 Some Problems with 'The Problem of Structure and Agency'; Conclusion; Postscript; References; Index.

Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedures often employed in social theory for dealing with concepts, offering alternative approaches to social scientists and philosophers for tackling the conceptual issues that have so bedevilled social science from its inception.

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