How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman Among the Social Sciences

vi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: 1. Introduction / Mary Douglas and David Hull 2. Seven Strictures on Similarity / Nelson Goodman 3. The New Riddle Of Induction / Nelson Goodman 4. Biological Species: An Inductivist's Nightmare / David Hull 5. Agency and Structure in Negotiating Knowledge / Gary L. Downey 6. History as 'Compliance': The Development of Western Musical Notation in the Light of Goodman's Requirements / Ruth Katz 7. A Question of Style: Nelson Goodman and the Writing of Theory / Tim Engstrom 8. Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State / Paul Starr 9. World-Making by Kind-Making: Child Abuse for Example / Ian Hacking 10. Rightness of Categories / Mary Douglas.