1. Sociology and ordinary language philosophy : a dialogue -- 2. What Achilles said to Hempel : unrealistic restrictions and the idea of explanation as a matter of form -- 3. Ordinary language philosophy as logic -- 4. Ontological confusion in social theory -- 5. Continuing onto…
Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedu…
Departing from a concern with certain 'hard' problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on what the author calls the theoretical attitude towards language, this book considers…
