Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social

281 Pages·2021·3.112 MB·English

by  Christopher Adair-Toteff

Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social
Poznań Studies in the
Philosophy of the Sciences
and the Humanities
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Philosophy of the Social
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Christopher Adair- Toteff
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Contents

N otes on Contributors vii
S tephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social
An Introduction 1
Christopher Adair- Toteff
part 1
Overviews
O n What There is, Maybe
Turner versus Turner on “the Social” 11
Paul A. Roth
R ationality and Interpretive Methodology
Transformations in the Apparent Irrationality Debate 30
Mark Risjord
P ractical Normativity
Stephen Turner’s Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social 49
Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski
part 2
Practices and Beliefs
W hat Is in an Account of Practices? 71
Theodore R. Schatzki
Y es Virginia, Folk Psychological Understanding Really is Explanatory
Towards a Realist Conception of the “Verstehen Bubble” 90
Karsten R. Stueber
I ndividualistic and Holistic Models of Collective Beliefs and the Role of
Rhetoric and Argumentation
The Example of Religious and Political Beliefs 110
Alban Bouvier
vi Contents
part 3
Intentions and Norms
W hat Does Normativity “Explain”? 133
Peter Olen
N orms
You Can’t Always Get What You Want … but You Can Get What You
Need 150
David Henderson and Terence Horgan
part 4
Social Science
C ognitive Theories and Economic Science 177
Sam Whimster
I nterpretivism and Qualitative Research 202
Julie Zahle
S ociology, Expertise and Civility Response 221
John Holmwood
Response
R esponse: Normativity, Practices, and the Substrate 243
Stephen Turner
I ndex 267
Notes on Contributors
Christopher Adair- Toteff
has retired as a professor of philosophy and social theory. He has published
widely on classical German social thinkers, especially Max Weber, Ernst
Troeltsch, and Ferdinand Tönnies. His current interests are on political philos-
ophy as indicated by Ernst Troeltsch and the Spirit of Modern Culture (Walter de
Gruyter 2021) and the intersection of social theory and economics as shown in
his forthcoming book on Weber for Routledge.
Alban Bouvier
is Emeritus Professor at Aix- Marseille University and Senior Researcher at
the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (Institut Jean Nicod). He previously
taught at the Sorbonne. He specialized in both the philosophy of the social sci-
ences and theoretical sociology. He is especially interested in the connections
between analytic sociology on the one hand and argumentation theory and
rhetoric on the other hand in the continuity of Vilfredo Pareto.
David Henderson
is the Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He works on a wide range of topics in the
Philosophy of Social Science and Epistemology. In the latter, he has commonly
collaborated with Terence Hogan. In the former, he has long admired and
learned from the work of Stephen Turner. Indeed, his own early work, includ-
ing Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Sciences (suny 1993) owed
much to this engagement. His contribution with Terrence Hogan in this col-
lection reflects a related overlap with Turner’s work: the significance of recent
cognitive science for the social sciences.
Terence Horgan
is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at the University of Arizona. His phil-
osophical work, often collaborative, spans a number of fields including phi-
losophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, and philosophical
paradoxes. He collaborates extensively with David Henderson on topics in
epistemology.
John Holmwood
is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and senior
researcher at the Centre for Science Technology and Society Studies in the
viii Notes on Contributors
Institute for Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Science. His current research
is on multiculturalism and religion and on colonialism and modern social
theory. He has recently published a work of public sociology (with Therese
O’Toole) on the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair which involved false claims
of a plot to Islamicise schools and (with Gurminder K Bhambra) on the role
of colonialism in the construction of classical sociology and contemporary
accounts of modernity.
Peter Olen
is an assistant professor of philosophy at Lake- Sumter State College in
Clermont, Florida. His research focuses broadly on the history of philosophy
(especially 19th and 20th century American philosophy). Specifically, Peter’s
recent publications address issues surrounding Wilfrid Sellars, pragmatism,
logical positivism, and historical perspectives on the tension between norma-
tive and naturalistic accounts of human agency.
Mark Risjord
is professor of Philosophy at Emory University (USA) and Affiliated Research
Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Social Science, University of
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. His research is in the philosophy of science,
with special interests in issues arising from anthropology and nursing. His cur-
rent projects investigate inferentialist approaches to scientific representation
and minimalist approaches to joint action.
Paul A. Roth
is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University
of California- Santa Cruz (USA). His research focuses on several areas, includ-
ing Quine and naturalized epistemology, philosophy of history (particularly
historical explanation as debated within the analytical philosophical tradi-
tion), and philosophy of social science. He has numerous articles in each of
these areas as well as a recent book on historical explanation.
Theodore R. Schatzki
is professor of geography and philosophy at the University of Kentucky and
professor of sociology at Lancaster University. He is a social theorist, widely
associated with the theoretical stream in the social disciplines known as prac-
tice theory. His books have developed an original version of this approach.
Schatzki’s present research ranged over multiple topics such as materiality and
social life, cryptocurrencies/b lockchains, and spaces of educating under the
Covid- 19 regime.
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Notes on Contributors ix
Karsten R. Stueber
is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He works at the
intersection of the philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences, and
metaethics. Among others, he is the author of Rediscovering Empathy: Agency,
Folk Psychology and the Human Sciences (mit Press 2006) and more recently the
co- editor of Ethical Sentimentalism: New Perspectives (Cambridge University
Press 2017). In his new book project, he is exploring the relationship between
empathy and morality.
Stephen Turner
is Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Philosophy,
University of South Florida. He has published extensively on the history and
philosophy of social science. His current research interests are in the relations
between cognitive science and the conceptions of the social, and in aspects
of democratic theory, especially relating to issues of knowledge and expertise.
Sam Whimster
is a sociologist and is Professor in the Global Policy Institute, London. He is
editor of the journal Max Weber Studies. He is the co- editor (with Hans Henrik
Brunn) of Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings (Routledge 2012).
Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski
lectures on philosophy and history of science and axiological problems of
modern civilization in the Liberal Arts Program at the Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznań. He has published on the philosophy of the social sciences,
social ontology, political philosophy and social studies of science. His present
focus is on the experts’ role in defining republican freedom and forms of gov-
ernment within the context of knowledge societies.
Julie Zahle
is associate professor on the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Bergen. Previously, she taught at Durham University and the University
of Copenhagen. She received her Ph.D. from the History and Philosophy of
Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. Her research areas
include the philosophy of qualitative methods, values and objectivity in social
science, the individualism-h olism debate, and social theories of practices.