Styles of thought : interpretation, inquiry, and imagination /

Main Author: Weissman, David, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=217507
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Two styles of explanation : interpretation and inquiry -- Interpretation -- Inquiry -- Different tasks -- Perspective -- Contrary responses : an example -- Mixed modes -- Applications -- Values -- Morality -- Politics -- Interpretation : self and society -- Origin and context -- Distortion -- Emotion -- Assumptions for a taxonomy -- Stories -- Socialized interpretations -- Eliding fact and value -- Magic, myth, and metaphor -- Faith and fantasy -- Philosophic rationales -- Tolerance -- Inquiry : practical life and science -- Context and objectives -- Meaning -- Truth -- Animadversions -- Engaging other people and things -- Aims -- Ideals -- A choice -- A disputed question -- Ontological alternatives -- The dialectic of untestable ideas -- Reconciliation -- Imagination -- Construction -- Construction rules -- Variation -- Discipline -- Leading principles -- Priority -- Precedents -- Use -- An inventory of leading principles -- Values -- When practical life and science disagree -- Categorial form. 
650 0 |a Interpretation (Philosophy) 
650 0 |a Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) 
650 0 |a Imagination (Philosophy) 
650 7 |a PHILOSOPHY  |x Epistemology. 
650 7 |a Imagination (Philosophy) 
650 7 |a Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) 
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