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4The Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Organizational StudiesIn Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence & Walter R. Nord (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies, Sage Publications Ltd.. 2006.
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22Weber, MaxIn Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge. 1998.Max Weber, German economist, historian, sociologist, methodologist, and political thinker, is of philosophical significance for his attempted reconciliation of historical relativism with the possibility of a causal social science; his notion of a verstehende sociology; his formulation, use and epistemic account of the concept of ‘ideal types’; his views on the rational irreconcilability of ultimate value choices, and particularly his formulation of the implications for ethical political action o…Read more
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6ExplanationIn John Lachs Robert B. Talisse (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.
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2DeterminismIn John Lachs Robert B. Talisse (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.
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9Thinking Epistemically about Experts and Publics: A Response to SelingerSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3 (9): 36-43. 2014.Evan Selinger’s review nicely captures the main concerns of my collection of essays, The Politics of Expertise. He raises an important question that is touched on in several essays but not fully developed: the problem of getting expert knowledge possessed by academics into something like public discussion or the public domain. This is of course only a part of the problem of expertise and the larger problem of knowledge in society. But it can be approached in more detail than was done in the book…Read more
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1Why should Sociology Care about Cognitive Science?Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section 27 (4): 9-11. 2004.
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5Charles Abram EllwoodIn John Arthur Garraty & Mark Christopher Carnes (eds.), American National Biography: supplement 1, Oxford University Press. pp. 458-459. 1999.
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15Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method: Is It a Classic?Sociological Perspectives 38 (1): 1-13. 1995.Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method has never enjoyed the same reputation as his major books, in part because the book is uncongenial to standard interpretations of Durkheim. In particular, its attacks on teleology do not fit his reputation as a functionalist The papers in this special issue address the work historically. Both Porter and Stedman Jones deal with aspects of the context in which Durkheim worked and transformed. Schmaus and Nemedi deal with problems of interpreting Durkheim'…Read more
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13The Road from “Vocation”: Weber and Veblen on the Purposelessness of ScholarshipJournal of Classical Sociology. forthcoming.“Science as a Vocation” describes an ideal of scholarship for a vanished world. Images of the past university still color our idea of the university. Weber dispelled illusions about the university of his own time, and pointed to its cruelty and irrationality. Veblen did something similar for the American university of his time, defended a similar ideal, and foresaw the effects of disciplinarization and the quantification of academic life. They both provide insights into the ways in which the aut…Read more
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77Book symposium on expertise: Philosophical reflections by Evan Selinger automatic press/vip, vince inc. Press 2011Philosophy and Technology 26 (1): 93-109. 2013.
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563.What Are Disciplines? And How Is Interdisciplinarity Different?In Peter Weingart & Nico Stehr (eds.), Practising Interdisciplinarity, University of Toronto Press. pp. 46-65. 2000.
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33The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political authority. This Handbook will address a range of issues that have recently emerged from the disciplines of social and political theory, focusing on key themes as opposed to schools of thought or ma…Read more
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758Book reviews : Forms of explanation. Rethinking the questions in social theory. By Alan Garfinkel. New Haven, Conn.: Yale university press, 1981. Pp. 184. $16.00 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (3): 416-418. 1984.
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2Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science: Selected Papers. Donald T. Campbell , E. Samuel Overman (review)Isis 80 739-740. 1989.
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35Practice Then and NowHuman Affairs 17 (2): 111-125. 2007.Practice Then and Now "Practice theory" has a long history in philosophy, under various names, but current practice theory is a response to failures of projects of modernity or enlightenment which attempt to reduce science or politics to formulae. Heidegger, Oakeshott, and MacIntyre are each examples of philosophers who turned to practice conceptions. Foucault and Bourdieu made similar turns. Practice accounts come in different forms: some emphasize skill-like individual accomplishments, others …Read more
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25Rationalizations and the Application of Causal Explanations of Human ActionAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 18 (3). 1981.
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17Book Reviews : Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science. By Paul Mattick, Jr. London: Hutchinson, 1986. Pp. x + 137. 12.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (4): 582-586. 1988.
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20Book Review: The English Heidegger (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (3): 353-368. 2005.Terry Nardin’s book on Oakeshott is an attempt to compare him to other 20th-century philosophers and to track the development of his philosophical thought. The project of comparison is made relevant by the fact that Oakeshott’s philosophy, like that of Heidegger and others, was the product of the dissolution of neo-Kantianism. Nardin stresses the idea of “modal confusion,” meaning responding to a question of one kind with an answer appropriate to another kind of inquiry, as a key to Oakeshott’s …Read more
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8Polanyian in Spirit: A Reply to GulickTradition and Discovery 25 (1): 12-20. 1998.Walter Gulick criticizes The Social Theory of Practices for its non-Polanyian views of the problem of the objective character of tacit knowledge, its insistence that there should be plausible causal mechanisms that correspond to claims about tacit knowledge and its “social” transmission, and its denial of the social, telic character of practices. In this reply it is asserted that the demand for causally plausible mechanisms is not scientistic or for that matter non-Polanyian, that the book has a…Read more
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28The Politics of the Word and the Politics of the EyeThesis Eleven 73 (1): 51-69. 2003.The concept of worldviews gives a visual sense to the notion of a shared ideological frame, but misleadingly suppresses the visual itself. Against the standard image of worldviews, it is argued that the notion makes sense in connection with particular technologies of representation, notably newspapers, and is no longer informative about political beliefs. The example of Kristin Luker's work on abortion politics is used to show how weak the evidential base is for claims about worldviews. It is th…Read more
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85Making the Tacit ExplicitJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 42 (4): 385-402. 2012.Tacit knowledge is both a ubiquitous and puzzling notion, related to the idea of hidden assumptions. The puzzle is partly a result of the conflict between the idea that assumptions are in the mind and the apparent audience-relativity of the "fact" of possessing an assumption or of the tacit knowledge that is articulated. If we think of making the tacit explicit as constructing a certain kind of inference repairing explanation for a particular audience "on the fly" we come closer to an explanatio…Read more
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426Normal Accidents of ExpertiseMinerva 48 (3): 239-258. 2010.Charles Perrow used the term normal accidents to characterize a type of catastrophic failure that resulted when complex, tightly coupled production systems encountered a certain kind of anomalous event. These were events in which systems failures interacted with one another in a way that could not be anticipated, and could not be easily understood and corrected. Systems of the production of expert knowledge are increasingly becoming tightly coupled. Unlike classical science, which operated with …Read more
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60Tacit Knowledge Meets Analytic KantianismTradition and Discovery 41 (1): 33-47. 2014.Neil Gascoigne and Tim Thornton’s Tacit Knowledge is an attempt to find a place for tacit knowledge as “knowledge” within the limits of analytic epistemology. They do so by reference to Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson’s analysis of the term “way” and by the McDowell-like claim that reference to the tacitly rooted “way” of doing something exhausts the knowledge aspect of tacit knowledge, which preserves the notion of tacit knowledge, while excluding most of Michael Polanyi’s examples, and re…Read more
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58Habermas meets science Content Type Journal Article Category Essay Review Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9560-2 Authors Stephen Turner, Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796
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