Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences

✍ Scribed by Gurpreet Mahajan

• Publisher: OUP India
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of explanation is adequate for the social sciences? In this lucid book, Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.

✦ Table of Contents

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Title Pages
Gurpreet Mahajan
Title Pages
(p.i) Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences (p.ii) (p.iii) Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences
Title Pages
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(p.vi) Acknowledgements
Gurpreet Mahajan
(p.vi) Acknowledgements
Notes:
(p.vi) Acknowledgements
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(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
Gurpreet Mahajan
(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
(p.vii) Preface to the Third Edition
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(p.xv) Preface
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(p.xv) Preface
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Explaining Causally
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Explaining Causally
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Abstract and Keywords
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
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Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
Explaining Causally
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Reason-Action Explanation
Gurpreet Mahajan
Reason-Action Explanation
Gurpreet Mahajan
Abstract and Keywords
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
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Reason-Action Explanation
Reason-Action Explanation
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Hermeneutic Understanding
Gurpreet Mahajan
Hermeneutic Understanding
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Abstract and Keywords
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
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Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
Hermeneutic Understanding
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The Narrative Mode
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The Narrative Mode
Gurpreet Mahajan
Abstract and Keywords
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
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The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
The Narrative Mode
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Some Considerations on Method
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Some Considerations on Method
Gurpreet Mahajan
Abstract and Keywords
Some Considerations on Method
Some Considerations on Method
Some Considerations on Method
Some Considerations on Method
Some Considerations on Method
Some Considerations on Method
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Gurpreet Mahajan
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Abstract and Keywords
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism
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(p.151) Index
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