Too many topics, too little time

American Scientist Online – Harry Collins :
This is easy—it is a little book, written in 1958 by the Wittgenstein-inspired philosopher Peter Winch, called The Idea of a Social Science. It’s short, and the words are easy, but the ideas are so difficult when first encountered that, when I first read it in 1967, it took me months to understand. Nowadays its main point—the identity of thinking and doing—seems entirely clear, and most years I will spend a few weeks trying to induct students into this way of understanding the world.

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interesting…. i’m rereading winch’s edited collection of wittgenstein on culture and values before bed… it really is thought provoking.