@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2tv3d6.6, ISBN = {9780802092243}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv3d6.6}, abstract = {Despite the vast secondary literature that now surrounds, and maybe smothers, Max Weber’s ‘The “Objectivity” of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy,’ there has been little detailed interpretation of the work.¹ During the past three decades, there have been many enlightening and stimulating characterizations, descriptions, and assessments of Weber’s methodological arguments, but there has been little attempt to reconstruct in depth and detail the internal structure and substance of the 1904 essay.One tendency has been to decontextualize the piece and view it, often anachronistically, as if it were an intervention in contemporary discussions in the philosophy of social}, author = {JOHN G. GUNNELL}, booktitle = {Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered}, pages = {58--88}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {The Paradoxes of Social Science: Weber, Winch, and Wittgenstein}, year = {2007} }