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CfP - Method and Society: German traditions of inquiry in the human and natural sciences, GSA 2008
| Location: | Minnesota, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-02-12 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-02-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
160744 |
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The organizers seek two additional papers, preferably on topics within the 19-20th centuries, to complete an interdisciplinary two-panel series for the German Studies Assoc conference taking place in St.Paul, MN (Oct 2-5, 2008).These panels focus on the issue of method and its significance for understanding German traditions of inquiry in the human and natural sciences. Methodological preoccupations played a central role within one of the 18th c's dominant philosophical paradigms, natural law. In the wake of the scientific revolution and the conflict between Cartesian deduction and Newtonian induction, the issue of adequately formulating the apparent interrelation of method, proof, and truth grew ever more urgent, and questions of the relationship between a priori and a posteriori forms of proof, inductive and deductive reasoning, facts and values, universals and particulars, both stimulated and constrained the process of scientific inquiry. Because of the fluid boundaries between the natural and the human sciences, such issues also structured arguments and hypotheses in the realms of politics and human social organization, and are traceable in the conflicting philosophical anthropologies whose relevance grew in proportion to political turmoil. With the collapse of the natural law project, the increasing differentiation of knowledge over the course of the nineteenth century, and a corresponding shift in the social channeling of intellectual ambitions, the unifying perspective of the 18th c receded; however, the problem of method was not eclipsed. These panels seek to investigate the enduring importance of method within German intellectual traditions of the 18th-20th centuries, in order to examine the ways that types of proof and modes of reasoning might be related historically to claims for intellectual, social, or cultural legitimation in the areas of science, philosophy, theology, political/social theory, economics and history
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