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    Can social science be just?
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (4): 595-621. 2009.
    Despite the extensive commentary on the work of Peter Winch, there has been inadequate recognition of how his Idea of a Social Science discerned the implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for confronting issues regarding the nature and interpretation of social phenomena. Winch’s subsequent confrontation with anthropology can be further illuminated by examining one of the most contentious contemporary debates in this field. This case illustrates the paradoxes involved in meta-practices such as…Read more
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    Models of Man (review)
    Political Theory 6 (2): 259-262. 1978.
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    The Nature of Political Theory (review)
    Political Theory 33 (5): 740-742. 2005.
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    This book is an exploration of the relationship between philosophy and political inquiry. John G. Gunnell is seeking to explain certain dimensions of how philosophy has influenced political science and political theory but also how these latter fields have understood and deployed philosophy. When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual authority what they extract is often selective and in the service of some prior agenda. The philosophers whose wo…Read more
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    Winch Reassessed
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (4): 616-622. 2010.
    Hutchinson, Read, and Sharrock have provided an important analysis of the work of Peter Winch. They succeed in rescuing his philosophy from many of the distorting characterizations and categorizations to which it has been subjected, and they provide a fresh account of its relevance for thinking about the theory and practice of social science
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    Examines the lives of nine civil rights leaders.
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    Although social scientists have been devoted to discovering specific realities of social life, many theorists devoted to critical judgment have turned to philosophy in search of universal grounds of truth and reality. They have, however, worried about the problem of relativism. Although Wittgenstein has often been characterized as a relativist, Cora Diamond, inspired by G. E. M Anscombe, argues that his work, despite internal tensions, provides rational grounds for external criticism of social p…Read more
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    Time and interpretation: understanding concepts and conceptual change
    History of Political Thought 19 (4): 641-658. 1998.
    The issue of the nature of concepts and the problem of understanding conceptual change have become increasingly important in methodological discussions of the study of the history of political thought as well as in substantive research. The treatment of these matters, however, remains inadequate. This is in part a consequence of metatheoretical agendas that have diverted attention away from a theoretical analysis of concepts and apposite issues such as the relationship between mental predicates,…Read more
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    Reorienting political theory
    European Journal of Political Theory 13 (4): 480-487. 2014.
  • Political philosophy and time
    Wesleyan University Press. 1968.
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    Relativism
    Political Theory 21 (4): 563-584. 1993.
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    Books in Review
    Political Theory 11 (3): 455-459. 1983.
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    Contemporary literature in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind points to the locus of significant unresolved theoretical and methodological issues in political theory and political science, and particularly to the persistently anomalous status of mental concepts. The manner in which political and social theorists have accessed and deployed this literature, however, has been highly selective and conceptually problematical. The purpose has often been to justify prior agendas, and issues r…Read more
  •  2
    Books in Review
    Political Theory 10 (3): 477-480. 1982.
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    Books in Review
    Political Theory 19 (3): 471-473. 1991.
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    Ii
    Political Theory 13 (3): 339-361. 1985.
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    Desperately Seeking wittgenstein
    European Journal of Political Theory 3 (1): 77-98. 2004.
    It has been notoriously difficult to link Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work to the agendas of academic political theory. While this is in part due to his style of writing and the absence of an explicit discussion of politics, his commitment to the irreducibility of conventions is difficult to reconcile with the search of many political theorists for both criteria of political essentiality and a basis of cognitive privilege that would underwrite a vision of critical and normative inquiry. Although polit…Read more
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    Reading Max Weber Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
    European Journal of Political Theory 3 (2): 151-166. 2004.
    Leo Strauss»s Natural Right and History and Eric Voegelin»s New Science of Politics represented both a continuation of the Weimar conversation and a projection into the American context of the issues that defined that conversation. They each chose Max Weber as the pivotal figure in their animadversions regarding historicism, relativism, and the condition of social science, but, as in the case of Weber himself, the underlying issue, which animated the emigres across the ideological spectrum, was …Read more
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    Reading Max Weber
    European Journal of Political Theory 3 (2): 151-166. 2004.
    Leo Strauss»s Natural Right and History and Eric Voegelin»s New Science of Politics represented both a continuation of the Weimar conversation and a projection into the American context of the issues that defined that conversation. They each chose Max Weber as the pivotal figure in their animadversions regarding historicism, relativism, and the condition of social science, but, as in the case of Weber himself, the underlying issue, which animated the emigres across the ideological spectrum, was …Read more
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    Between Philosophy and Politics ...
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    The Crisis of Political Understanding (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 13 (2): 102-104. 1981.
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    Heidegger’s Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 16 (1): 75-77. 1984.
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  •  2
    The Crisis of Political Understanding (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 13 (2): 102-104. 1981.