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By Peter Winch (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780415382816 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 22, 2005), cover price $235.00

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9780415611046 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 16, 2010), cover price $48.95

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Product Description: In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had not yet joined the Humanities and the Natural Sciences as the third great domain of the Academy...read more
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9780415423588, titled "The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy" | Routledge, November 1, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever.

Miscellaneous:

9780203014493, titled "The Idea of a Social Science: And Its Relation to Philosophy" | 2 edition (Routledge, November 1, 2002), cover price $33.95

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Miscellaneous:

9780203046241 | Routledge, January 31, 2002, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: This book provides a critical examination of Peter Winch's celebrated and controversial philosophy of the social sciences. Topics covered include rule following and the meaningfulness of human behavior, technical explanations of behavior, practical rationality, and the interpretation of "exotic" cultural phenomena, such as African magic, and the Hawaiian deification of Captain James Cook...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415253024 | Routledge, November 1, 2001, cover price $181.00 | About this edition: This book provides a critical examination of Peter Winch's celebrated and controversial philosophy of the social sciences.

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9781862543263 | Wakefield Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: The problems dealt with in The Idea of a Social Science are philosophical. It is an attempt to locate the social studies, considered as a single group, on the intellectual map, with special attention to the relations of the group to philosophy on the one hand and the natural sciences on the other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415054317 | 2 edition (Routledge, March 1, 1995), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The problems dealt with in The Idea of a Social Science are philosophical.

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9788449300394, titled "Comprender una sociedad primitiva / Understanding a Primitive Society" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, September 2, 1994, cover price $22.95

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9780864173751 | Kangaroo Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live. In what respects are they responsible for, and to, that society? Should they seek to act as independent arbiters of the values explicitly or implicity espoused by those around them? Should they seek to advise those in public life about the way in which they should act, or should they withdraw from any form of political involvement? And how should their preoccupations with truth and language find practical expression? The contributors to this volume seek to provide tentative answers to these questions...read more
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9780521391795 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 25, 1991), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live.

Paperback:

9780521398596 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals addresses the many problems in defining the relationship of intellectuals to the society in which they live.

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Product Description: According to Wittgenstein, philosophical puzzles are due to deep prejudices about language. In this collection of essays, in honour of Rush Rhees, philosophers investigate the hold such prejudices have on us in a number of closely related areas of philosophical enquiry...read more
By D. Z. Phillips, Rush Rhees (editor) and Peter Winch (editor)
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9780312034993 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: According to Wittgenstein, philosophical puzzles are due to deep prejudices about language.

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Product Description: This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew. It also explores illuminating parallels between these ideas and ideas that were simultaneously being developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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Hardcover:

9780521300865 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 1989), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew.

Paperback:

9780521317436, titled "Simone Weil "the Just Balance"" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew.

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Product Description: The title of the book is not meant to characterize only the author's own activity. The philosophical problems he discusses arise out of the attempts of human beings to make sense of themselves and the lives they lead - and of the lives they feel they should lead; of each other, of their own and others' cultures, of existence itself and the world in which they live...read more
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Hardcover:

9780631153368 | Blackwell Pub, July 1, 1987, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: The title of the book is not meant to characterize only the author's own activity.

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