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Styles of thought : interpretation, inquiry, and imagination
- Title
- Styles of thought : interpretation, inquiry, and imagination / David Weissman.
- Author
- Weissman, David, 1936-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
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- Description
- viii, 189 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Two styles of explanation : interpretation and inquiry -- Interpretation -- Inquiry -- Different tasks -- Perspective -- Contrary responses : an example -- Mixed modes -- Applications -- Values -- Morality -- Politics -- Interpretation : self and society -- Origin and context -- Distortion -- Emotion -- Assumptions for a taxonomy -- Stories -- Socialized interpretations -- Eliding fact and value -- Magic, myth, and metaphor -- Faith and fantasy -- Philosophic rationales -- Tolerance -- Inquiry : practical life and science -- Context and objectives -- Meaning -- Truth -- Animadversions -- Engaging other people and things -- Aims -- Ideals -- A choice -- A disputed question -- Ontological alternatives -- The dialectic of untestable ideas -- Reconciliation -- Imagination -- Construction -- Construction rules -- Variation -- Discipline -- Leading principles -- Priority -- Precedents -- Use -- An inventory of leading principles -- Values -- When practical life and science disagree -- Categorial form.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-533
- ISBN
- 9780791472613 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0791472612 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001917
- OCLC
- 79256787
- Author
- Weissman, David, 1936-
- Title
- Styles of thought : interpretation, inquiry, and imagination / David Weissman.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-533