Acknowledgments
1
Introduction
1.1 Breakdown and Reconstruction
1.2 Synopsis
2
Apparent Irrationality
2.1 Bloodsucking Witchcraft
2.2 Sati
2.3 Azande Witchcraft: Three Interpretations
2.4 The Purrinton Murders
2.5 Parameters of the Problem
3
Interpretive Change
3.1 Charity
3.2 Humanity
3.3 Explanatory Coherence
4
Explanation
4.1 Criteria of Adequacy
4.2 The Erotetic Model of Explanation
4.3 Presuppositions
4.4 Interests and Laissez-Faire Contextualism
4.5 Explanation and Coherence Revisited
5
Intentional Action and Social Explanation
5.1 Explanatory Pluralism
5.2 Intentional Action Explanations
5.3 Social Explanations
5.4 The Compatibility of Functional and Reason-Giving Explanations
6
Meaning
6.1 The Problem of Meaning
6.2 The Explanatory Value of Meaning
6.3 Defusing the Double Hermeneutic
7
Normativity
7.1 Norms, Action, and Explanation
7.2 Norms, Rules, and Mistakes
7.3 Contested Norms and the Community of Agents
8
Conclusion
8.1 Interpretive Dynamics 175
8.2 On the Relationship between the Social and Natural Sciences
References
Index