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Thinking in Cases
John Forrester
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Paperback. Today many philosophers and historians of science would acknowledge that there are different kinds of activity that we call science and different kinds of reasoning that are practised in them. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Freud's famous cases, to a level of reliable generality? In this book, Forrester teases out the meanings of the psychoanalytic case, how to characterize it and account for it as a particular kind of writing. In so doing, he moves from psychoanalysis to the law and medicine, to philosophy and the constituents of science. Freud and Foucault jostle here with Thomas Kuhn, Ian Hacking and Robert Stoller, and Einstein and Freud's connection ... Read more
What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Freud's famous cases, to a level of reliable generality? In this book, Forrester teases out the meanings of the psychoanalytic case, how to characterize it and account for it as a particular kind of writing. In so doing, he moves from psychoanalysis to the law and medicine, to philosophy and the constituents of science. Freud and Foucault jostle here with Thomas Kuhn, Ian Hacking and Robert Stoller, and Einstein and Freud's connection ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
274 g
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509508624
SKU
V9781509508624
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About John Forrester
John Forrester (1949-2015) was a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and the author of several ground-breaking books.
Reviews for Thinking in Cases
Offers an engaging and informativie critique of those who, like Aristotle, reject individual instances as objects of knowledge, as well as giving a very welcome account of the value of thinking in cases not only in psychoanalysis, but also anthropolgy, law, physics, and medicine. Times Higher Education Supplement Thinking in Cases tells us many new and original things about what ... Read more