In:
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 1984, No. 2 ( 1984), p. 716-744
Abstract:
The central purpose of the symposium in which this paper was originally presented was to elicit from anthropologists those problems in their discipline which, from the perspective of a practitioner, might merit philosophical attention. Setting aside the difficulties that must arise when an anthropologist, unfamiliar with the scholarly tradition of philosophy, attempts to identify philosophically interesting issues, any anthropologist is confronted with a further problem. Anthropology is not a coherent discipline in the same fashion as many other academic departments. Nor is any anthropologist really “expert” in more than one of the major disciplines (I would caution wariness of those who claim more) and most only within a particular strain of the relevant discipline. Being an archaeologist, I feel constrained to treat that discipline.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0270-8647
,
2327-9486
DOI:
10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1984.2.192535
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1984
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2082673-4
SSG:
11
SSG:
5,1
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