Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences
Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences In Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences, Robert Vinten takes a fresh look at the relationship between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the social sciences. This…
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Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences
In Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences, Robert Vinten takes a fresh look at the relationship between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the social sciences. This involves getting clear about what Wittgenstein was doing in his philosophical work as well as about the nature of the social sciences. The book locates Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to the social sciences.
He then examines problems associated with relativism within the social sciences and considers whether Wittgenstein might be a relativist of some sort.The book goes on to consider whether Wittgenstein's philosophy lends support to any particular political ideology and asks an important question: whether Wittgenstein himself was a Vinten argues that the social sciences can be considered scientific despite the fact that social sciences have different methods and subject matter to the natural sciences.