Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Methodology

Michael Wolff zeigt in seinem Buch, wie ein Problem, das seit dem 19. Jahrhundert von Interpreten und Kritikern Hegels viel diskutiert worden ist, aufgelöst werden kann: Es geht darum, wie sich Hegels Lehre vom Widerspruch zum Begriff des Widerspruchs verhält, der in der Logik als Grundbegriff auftritt. Wolffs Buch wendet sich gegen das verbreitete Missverständnis, Hegels Logik führe einen neuartigen Begriff »dialektischer« Widersprüche ein, – ein Missverständnis, das manchmal noch mit dem Vorwurf verknüpft worden...

Concept is a central notion in modern philosophy that also influences other disciplines like psychology and linguistics. The author compares modern theories to the work of Aristotle as the first philosopher with an extensive corpus and one of the predecessors both of classical theory and of modal theories of concepts. It is surprising that there is no equivalent term for concept in his work. Both pathema and logos are central to his theory of language and thought. Therefore, this book describes which notion in Aristotle's writing comes closest to concept and whether or not it generates a...

This book revisits psychology's appropriation of natural scientific methods. The author argues that, in order to overcome ongoing methodological debates in psychology, it is necessary to confront the problem of formalisation contained in the appropriation of methods of natural science. By doing so, the subject matter of psychology - the human being - and questions about the meaning of human existence can be brought to the centre of the discipline. Drawing on Garfinkel, Sacks, Edwards and Potter, the author sees ethnomethodologically informed qualitative methods, which stem from...

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing.

In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch...