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Al lezend leren redeneren
recensie van Wetenschapsfilosofie voor geesteswetenschappen, Michiel Leezenberg en Gerard de Vries, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, 365 pagina’s, herziene editie. ISBN 987-90-8964-422-8. € 35,=
Review of The Lively Science
I love this book. I do. It offers a tight case for researching the human social world in a way that I hold dear. “All sciences”, Agar writes, “make their case based on evidence according to the rule of some logic, and then they try to prove the case is wrong in order to show … Lees meer
Review of Qualitative Research in Everyday Life
Book review of Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life. Working with Everyday Life materials, Svend Brinkmann How many authors haven’t I read that write about qualitative research in a defensive, almost apologetic tone? Many, and to my relief Svend Brinkmann wasn’t one of them in his presentation of a complete toolbox for the researcher of everyday … Lees meer
Manual for Humanities’ warfare
When the humanities are under attack, they either Duck and Dive or Go to War. The Public Value of the Humanities (Bate, 2011) is an example of the latter. There are three points the authors want to make. The first one is that the value of the humanities is manifold. Some authors discuss the economic … Lees meer
Zie de mens – een humanistische aanmaning
review van B. Merrill & L. West, Using biographical methods in social research. London: Sage Publications, 2009.