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Formal Thought and the Sciences of Man

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Authors:
  1. Gilles-Gaston Granger

    1. Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 75)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. The Problem of Forms and the Philosophy of the Sciences

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    Pages 1-12
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  3. Language as a Vehicle of Information

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    Pages 13-30
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  4. Scientific Languages and Formalisms

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    Pages 31-47
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  5. The Découpage of Phenomena

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    Pages 48-84
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  6. Quality and Quantity

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    Pages 85-116
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  7. Structuring and Axiomatizing

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    Pages 117-149
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  8. The Understanding of the Individual

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    Pages 150-180
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  9. Postface (1982)

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    Pages 181-193
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 194-210
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system reflected in Saussure's linguistic theory, and so influential in the great progress linguistic theory has made in this century. Indeed, Granger sees linguistic theory as expressing a paradigm for scientific theorizing, which research in other social sciences should adopt. But 'structuralism' as a method in science does not, in Granger's view, begin with Saussure and the linguists. It is nothing less than the strategy of all the sciences, both natural and social, since their beginnings. Now, 'structuralism' is a 'trendy' term no less in Anglophone methodology than in Francophone philosophy. But Granger's employment of the term is not to be assimilated to this trend, nor to the fashionable excesses for which this expression has been a watch­ word (he explicitly separates himself from this movement in the preface to the second edition). The exact nature of what Granger calls 'structuralist' methods is the subject of a large part of this work, and I will not dwell on it much further in this introduction. Suffice it to say that Granger's demand for structuralist description is nothing less than the recognition that the successful pursuit of science requires that its terms and predicates pick out what we may call 'natural kinds'; that is, describe classes of items that bear uniform nomolog­ ical relations to one another. A science whose descriptive terms do not meet this condition will never produce any laws that reflect such nomological connections.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Gilles-Gaston Granger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Formal Thought and the Sciences of Man

  • Authors: Gilles-Gaston Granger

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7037-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1524-1Published: 30 June 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-7039-7Published: 02 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7037-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 210

  • Additional Information: Originally published in French

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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