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