Can we understand ourselves?

Philosophical Investigations

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-204

  Winch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0041196135     PISSN: 01900536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9205.00038     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Cf. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, I, § 303 and II, ix
2. In 'Understanding a Primitive Society', originally published in the American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. I (1964)
3. and reprinted in my Ethics and Action (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972)
4. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (London & New York, 1958)
5. For more on this see 'Language, Belief and Relativism' in P. Winch, Trying to Make Sense (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987)
6. Philosophical Investigations, I, 201. But a similar argument is often involved in discussions of the so-called 'hermeneutic circle'
7. I have treated this topic much more fully in 'Eine Einstellung zur Seele' (in Winch, Trying to Make Sense, pp. 140-53)