Readings in Methodology: African Perspectives. Edited by Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo & Carlos Cardoso. Dakar, CODESRIA, 2011, 272 p., ISBN: 978-2-86978-483-3
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Content
Content and Introduction
(i-xv)
(17-35)
PART ONE: SOCIAL REASONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE
Pragmatism as a Vision of the World and as a Method: A Philosophical Examination of the Challenges Presented to Contemporary Social Research by Subjective Idealism, Nkolo Foé
(3-16)
The Alchemist and the Apprentice Myth-Hunter, Comments on Social Engineering in African Social Sciences, Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo & Pierre Bouda
(17-35)
PART TWO: LOGICS OF DISCOVERY
An Introduction to the Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Sémou Pathé Guèye
(39-76)
Reasons and Causes: Wittgenstein versus the Myth of Causal Explanation in the Social Sciences, Pierre Bouda
(77-86)
Scientific Logics and Methodologies, Gbocho Akissi
(87-100)
Construction of the Subject as a Practice of Clarification of Social Relationships, Jean Ferdinand Mbah