Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

by Edited by Simon Summers, Rupert J. Read, Edited by Simon Summers

Book Overview

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138246476
• ISBN13: 9781138246478
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"