Taylor, Geertz, and the Justification for Interpretive Social Science

Identifier

131

Author

Paul Christopher Dygert

Date

2018

Document Type

Honors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Major

Philosophy

Concentration

Social Sciences

Committee Member

Luvell Anderson

Abstract

This thesis discusses the philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor's justification and demarcation criteria for interpretive social science, as articulated in his 1971 article, Interpretation and Sciences of Man. A defense of Taylor's demarcation criteria is given in response to the anthropologist Clifford Geertz's 1995 article, The Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences. Considerations for the continued use of interpretive methodologies in the discipline of cultural anthropology are discussed in closing.

Comments

Undergraduate Honor's Thesis

Library Comment

Honors thesis originally submitted to the Local University of Memphis Honor’s Thesis Repository.

Recommended Citation

Dygert, Paul Christopher, "Taylor, Geertz, and the Justification for Interpretive Social Science" (2018). Honors Theses. 82.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/honors_theses/82