[Interpretationandmethods] New List Member

[psshea at csbs.utah.edu]

As to journals, PRQ has new editors.  Polity is also very eclectic  
with regard to methodology.  APSR has new editors as well.  Peri  
Schwartz-Shea

Quoting Dvora Yanow <D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl>:

>      RE: [Interpretationandmethods] New List Member
>
>   Larry, I've known about Whitehead's 'fallacy of misplaced
> concreteness,' but not 'of the perfect dictionary.'
>
> Do you have a reference on that?
>
> For myself, Polanyi's notion of tacit knowledge has been key to
> understand 'organizational learning' (in the field of org. studies),
> which these days crosses into theories of collective (professional)
> practice, and it figures also in the subfield of interpretive policy
> analysis, as well as in interpretive research methods/methododlogies,
> but I've not run into it much in political science theorizing outside
> of that public policy pocket.
>
> Dvora Yanow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu on behalf
> of Larry Chappell
> Sent: Tue 17-Jun-08 22:40
> To: interpretation and methods group
> Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] New List Member
>
> I have read and admired Polanyi's work for many years. His importance
> for work in the social sciences is not as widely recognized as it
> should be. The notion of "tacit knowledge" is especially valuable for
> a theory of interpretation. Many social scientists commit what
> Whitehead called "the fallacy of the perfect dictionary" by assuming
> that all we know and understand can be reduced to a series of
> comprehensive and perspicuous propositions about political reality.
> Polanyi is a good counterpoint to that fallacy.
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: WJKELLPRO at aol.com
>         Sent: Jun 17, 2008 4:10 PM
>         To: interpretationandmethods at www2.cddc.vt.edu
>         Cc: WJKELLPRO at aol.com
>         Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] New List Member
>
>         Hi All!
>
>         My Ph.D. is in political science (UCSB 1984).  I'm very
> interested in Michael Polanyi's philosophy of science and social
> science.  Is anyone else out there interested in him?
>
>         I've been out of academia for years.  Can anyone suggest some
> journals that are interested in publishing articles on interpretation
> methods?
>
>         Bill Kelleher
>
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