Understanding Society

Image: Ludwik Fleck as prisoner / scientist in Buchenwald An earlier post opened a discussion of the "historical turn" in the phi...

Isaiah Berlin's essay The Hedgehog and the Fox is a particularly interesting combination of philosophical analysis and literary critici...

Traditional cognitive science has been largely organized around the idea of the brain as a computing device and cognitive systems as fu...

The post-war German historian Reinhart Koselleck made important contributions to the theory of history that are largely independent fr...

Ian Hacking has written quite a bit on the topic of "kinds" ( link ), beginning with "A Tradition of Natural Kinds" ...

When social theorists undertake to define something, what are they doing from a conceptual point of view? I'm thinking of "big...

image: The Bargeman, Fernand Léger ( link ) In their The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge  Berger ...

I've treated several approaches to the sociology of knowledge in the past month.  Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann describe their book, ...