Ethnography And Sister Sciences:Why Refuse Assistance? A Reply To Weeks  

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Jones, Todd Edwin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Human Relations vol. 53 no. 3 (Mar. 2000), page 299–310.
Topik: belief ascription; cognitive science; ethnography
Fulltext: 299.pdf (1.28MB)

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Social scientists (most recently John Weeks) tend to reply to arguments about epistemological difficulties for belief ascription with two responses. An epistemological response goes: Behavioral evidence for underlying beliefs ‘is all we have and all we need’. A metaphysical response argues that beliefs, being merely instrumental entities are not really subject to worries about underdetermination. In this article, I argue that these responses are inadequate, and that social science practice can be greatly improved by incorporating cognitive-science constraints into the practice of ascribing beliefs.

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