Max Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science,
Philosophy, and Culture shows that a relational conception of science
is implicit in Max Weber’s reflections on scientific inquiry as a
bridge between the Geisteswissenschaften (soft sciences) and
Naturwissenschaften (hard sciences). Because he is not a trained
philosopher, Weber does not have the precise philosophical language in
which to articulate his ideas clearly. Consequently, his relational
vision of science remains obscure. Basit Bilal Koshul brings clarity
and precision to Weber’s insights using the pragmaticist philosophy
of Charles Peirce. He makes explicit the phenomenology, semiotics, and
logic that are implicit in Weber’s methodological writings and
translates them into Peircean terms. Since Peirce explicitly offers
his philosophy of science as a critique of the modern divide between
the humanistic and natural sciences and of the divide between religion
and science, this translation has a double effect. It clarifies
Weber’s insights on the methodology of scientific inquiry, and it
extends the reparative force of these insights into the larger culture
of which science is one part. The reconstruction of Weber’s
relational conception of science along the lines of Peirce’s
pragmaticism, in turn, reveals that Weber’s work points toward deep
affinities between religion and science. Given the fact that the same
phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that underpin Peirce’s
philosophy of science are also at the root of his philosophy of
religion, we can begin to appreciate the fact that Weber’s work
makes an important contribution to bridging the divide between
religion and science. In providing models that bridge divides and move
towards complementary relationships, Weber and Peirce not only help us
to better understand disenchantment as the fate of our times, but also
offer uniquely valuable resources to reach for cultural horizons that
lie beyond it.
                                
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                                                          At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture
                                                      
 
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ISBN
                    9780739178010
                  Publisert
                     2015 
                  Utgave
                     1. utgave 
                  Utgiver
                    Bloomsbury USA
                  Språk
                    
  Product language
              Engelsk
          Format
                    
  Product format
              Digital bok
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