Peter Winch (1) (1926–1997)
Autore di The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1926-01-14
- Data di morte
- 1997-04-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Walthamstow, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall)
- Attività lavorative
- philosopher
- Organizzazioni
- American Philosophical Association Central Division (president 1994-95)
Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy (president 1980-1981)
Royal Navy (1944-57)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 284
- Popolarità
- #82,067
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 42
- Lingue
- 7
Instead of claiming that rigorous standards of objectivity and testing in line with classic scientific principles were key to the future of sociology, Winch drew closer parallels with philosophy. He famously posits in this book that to attempt to understand humans as objects, as things interacting with each other with no sense of agency, was to not understand them at all. This was the stance from which he constructed his argument, drawing largely from the works of Wittgenstein.
Sociology has moved on a long way since the publication of this book, and so did Winch himself. Indeed in a preface written for a later edition of the book, he made it clear that he had learned to think differently on the matters he had written about with such passion. Nonetheless, this is still a very important book to sociology, and we no doubt owe a certain amount to Winch for shaking the ivory tower for us.… (altro)