Words and Distinctions for the Common Good

Name: Words and Distinctions for the Common Good | Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science
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Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science

Gabriel Abend(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 25. Juli 2023

464 Seiten

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Cover
Contents
Abbreviations and typographic conventions
Prologue (or, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?)
First Act
1. Sandwichness wars
1.1 A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich
1.2 Criteria
1.3 A burrito is a burrito is a burrito
1.4 Bread
1.5 Meat and dairy
1.6 Law and social science
2. The problem
2.1 What's the problem?
2.2 Objects
2.3 Characters
2.4 Levels
2.5 Human
2.6 What we talk about when we talk about 'bread,' 'planet,' and 'religion'
3. Nine ways to decline
3.1 What's your problem?
3.2 Nine arguments and nine responses
3.3 Envoi
4. Technical FAQs
4.1 Introductory FAQs
4.2 FAQs about definitions and concepts
4.3 FAQs about words and meaning
4.4 FAQs about other words and expressions
4.5 FAQs about sources
4.6 Concluding FAQs
5. Two activities
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Words and distinctions
5.3 The catch
5.4 Moving forward: pragmatically
6. Practical reason activities
6.1 The basic idea
6.2 Dinnertime
6.3 Collective
6.4 The good and the true
6.5 Deliberative democracy and constructivism
6.6 'Practical'
6.7 The plan
Second Act
7. Word first
7.1 Words
7.2 Words, words, words
7.3 Dump ontology
7.4 Descriptively and normatively
8. Activity WF and its discontents
8.1 Trouble
8.2 Merely
8.3 Verbal and merely verbal
8.4 Struggles
8.5 Social science
8.6 Against
8.7 For
8.8 How words matter
9. Distinction first
9.1 Distinctions and classifications
9.2 Research on classification
9.3 Good news and bad news
9.4 Desiderata
9.5 Individuation
9.6 How to choose
9.7 A Chinese encyclopedia
10. Conversation starters (fragments, sketches, suggestions, doubts)
10.1 Hey!
10.2 Are some animals more equal than others?
10.3 Moral goodness
10.4 Conditional
10.5 Natural language
10.6 Differences and diversities
10.7 Levels
10.8 Envoi
11. As a matter of fact
11.1 Dude!
11.2 Real life
11.3 Here and now
11.4 Critical FAQs
11.5 Coda
Epilogue (so, will social scientists' never-ending disputes over words ever end?)
Appendix: Make Pluto Great Again
A.1 Planethood wars
A.2 Pluto killers
A.3 Criteria
A.4 Prejudice
Acknowledgments
References
Index

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