{"product_id":"max-weber-and-charles-peirce-9780739178003","title":"Max Weber and Charles Peirce","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMax Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture shows that a relational conception of science is implicit in Max Weber's reflections on scientific inquiry as a bridge between the Geisteswissenschaften (soft sciences) and Naturwissenschaften (hard sciences). Because he is not a trained philosopher, Weber does not have the precise philosophical language in which to articulate his ideas clearly. Consequently, his relational vision of science remains obscure. Basit Bilal Koshul brings clarity and precision to Weber's insights using the pragmaticist philosophy of Charles Peirce. He makes explicit the phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that are implicit in Weber's methodological writings and translates them into Peircean terms. Since Peirce explicitly offers his philosophy of science as a critique of the modern divide between the humanistic and natural sciences and of the divide between religion and science, this translation has a double effect. It clarif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasit Bilal Koshul's analysis of Max Weber's work makes significant contributions to the Weberian scholarship and dispels many prior unilateral readings of the Weberian corpus in at least these three areas: (1) Showing how much Max Weber was a post-modernist before post-modernism, a critic of Western modern cultural biases who didn't succumb to either an easy evolutionist bias or a simplistic optimism—including in relation to capitalism; (2) Demonstrating the depth and complexity of the Weberian epistemology, including a critique of old assumptions regarding Weber's concept of science as \"value free\"; and (3) Dissecting the Weberian concept of disenchantment of the world in a way that allows, on the one hand, for a novel, more optimistic approach to the relations between science and religious faith, and, on the other hand, for a rather pessimistic probe of the relations between religion and modern Western capitalism. -- Otto Maduro, Drew University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Abbreviation of Weber’s Works Introduction Chapter One: Causality and Scientific Inquiry Chapter Two: Weber’s Conception of Causality: A Reconstruction Chapter Three: The Significance of Concept Formation Chapter Four: Weber on Concept formation: A Reconstruction Chapter Five: Conceptual Apparatus and the Logic of Scientific Inquiry Chapter Six: The Cultural Significance of Weber’s “Wissenschaftslehre” Chapter Seven: Weber, Peirce, and a Relational Vision of Religion and Science Bibliography","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037521969495,"sku":"9780739178003","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739178003.jpg?v=1750936083","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/max-weber-and-charles-peirce-9780739178003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}