Research Catalog

Title

How classification works : Nelson Goodman among the social sciences / edited by Mary Douglas and David Hull.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goodman, Nelson
• Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
• Hull, David L.

Description

vi, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Goodman, Nelson
• Categories (Philosophy)
• Classification

Genre/Form

Classifications.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Mary Douglas and David Hull -- 2. Seven Strictures on Similarity / Nelson Goodman -- 3. The New Riddle Of Induction / Nelson Goodman -- 4. Biological Species: An Inductivist's Nightmare / David Hull -- 5. Agency and Structure in Negotiating Knowledge / Gary L. Downey -- 6. History as 'Compliance': The Development of Western Musical Notation in the Light of Goodman's Requirements / Ruth Katz -- 7. A Question of Style: Nelson Goodman and the Writing of Theory / Tim Engstrom -- 8. Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State / Paul Starr -- 9. World-Making by Kind-Making: Child Abuse for Example / Ian Hacking -- 10. Rightness of Categories / Mary Douglas.

Call Number

JFE 92-9616

ISBN

• 0748603514
• 9780748603510

LCCN

92220899

OCLC

27036613

Title

How classification works : Nelson Goodman among the social sciences / edited by Mary Douglas and David Hull.

Imprint

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1992.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Goodman, Nelson.

Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007, editor.

Hull, David L., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 92-9616