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23Models of cultureIn Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 387. 2012.
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36Wittgenstein's woodcutters: The problem of apparent irrationalityAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 30 (3): 247-258. 1993.
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73Is there such a thing as a language?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 163-190. 1992.‘There is no such thing as a language,’ Donald Davidson tells us. Though this is a startling claim in its own right, it seems especially puzzling coming from a leading theorizer about language. Over the years, Davidson’s important essays have sparked the hope that there is a route to a positive, nonskeptical theory of meaning for natural languages. This hope would seem to be dashed if there are no natural languages. Unless Davidson’s radical claim is a departure from his developed views, the Dav…Read more
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37Woodcutters and Witchcraft: Rationality and Interpretive Change in the Social SciencesState University of New York Press. 2000.Uncovers the methodological principles that govern interpretive change
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20Naturalism and Normativity. Columbia Themes in PhilosophyNursing Philosophy 13 (3): 230-231. 2012.
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32Further reflections on the sensible foundation: Replies to Leavitt and GriffinStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (4): 665-672. 1991.
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38Relativism and the social scientific study of medicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (2): 195-212. 1993.Does the social scientific study of medicine require a commitment to relativism? Relativism claims that some subject (e.g., knowledge claims or moral judgments) is relative to a background (e.g., a culture or conceptual scheme) and that judgments about the subject are incommensurable. Examining the concept of success as it appears in orthodox and nonorthodox medical systems, we see that judgments of success are relative to a background medical system. Relativism requires the social scientific st…Read more
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155The politics of explanation and the origins of ethnographyPerspectives on Science 8 (1): 29-52. 2000.: At the turn of the twentieth century, comparative studies of human culture (ethnology) gave way to studies of the details of individual societies (ethnography). While many writers have noticed a political sub-text to this paradigm shift, they have regarded political interests as extrinsic to the change. The central historical issue is why anthropologists stopped asking global, comparative questions and started asking local questions about features of particular societies. The change in questio…Read more
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76No strings attached: Functional and intentional action explanationsPhilosophy of Science 66 (3): 313. 1999.Functional explanation in the social sciences is the focal point for conflict between individualistic and social modes of explanation. While the agent thought she was acting for reasons, the functional explanation seems to reveal the hidden strings of the puppet master. This essay argues that the conflict is merely apparent. The erotetic model of explanation is used to analyze the forms of intentional action and functional explanations. Two explanations conflict if either the presuppositions of …Read more
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402Methodological triangulation in nursing researchPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 31 (1): 40-59. 2001.Methodological triangulation is the use of more than one method to investigate a phenomenon. Nurse researchers investigate health phenomena using methods drawn from the natural and social sciences. The methodological debate concerns the possibility of confirming a single theory with different kinds of methods. The nursing debate parallels the philosophical debate about how the natural and social sciences are related. This article critiques the presuppositions of the nursing debate and suggests a…Read more
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27Is There Such a Thing as a Language?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 163-190. 1992.‘There is no such thing as a language,’ Donald Davidson tells us. Though this is a startling claim in its own right, it seems especially puzzling coming from a leading theorizer about language. Over the years, Davidson’s important essays have sparked the hope that there is a route to a positive, nonskeptical theory of meaning for natural languages. This hope would seem to be dashed if there are no natural languages. Unless Davidson’s radical claim is a departure from his developed views, the Dav…Read more
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Race and Scientific ReductionIn Harold Kincaid & Jennifer McKitrick (eds.), Establishing medical reality: Methodological and metaphysical issues in philosophy of medicine, Springer Publishing Company. 2007.
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33When IRBs Disagree: Waiving Parental Consent for Sexual Health Research on AdolescentsIRB: Ethics & Human Research 24 (2): 8. 2002.
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220Reasons, causes, and action explanationPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (3): 294-306. 2005.To explain an intentional action one must exhibit the agents reasons. Donald Davidson famously argued that the only clear way to understand action explanation is to hold that reasons are causes. Davidsons discussion conflated two issues: whether reasons are causes and whether reasons causally explain intentional action. Contemporary work on explanation and normativity help disentangle these issues and ground an argument that intentional action explanations cannot be a species of causal explana…Read more
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6Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (edited book)Routledge. 2015._Normativity and Naturalism in the Social Sciences_ engages with a central debate within the philosophy of social science: whether social scientific explanation necessitates an appeal to norms, and if so, whether appeals to normativity can be rendered "scientific." This collection brings together contributions from a diverse group of philosophers who explore a broad but thematically unified set of questions, many of which stem from an ongoing debate between Stephen Turner and Joseph Rouse on the…Read more
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14Genes, neurons, and nurses: new directions for nursing's philosophy of scienceNursing Philosophy 15 (4): 231-237. 2014.
Mark Risjord
Emory University
University Of Hradec Kralove
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University Of Hradec KraloveOther (Part-time)
Druid Hills, Georgia, United States of America
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Philosophy of Social Science |
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Action |
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Social Sciences |
Nursing |
Medicine |