Peter Winch

Peter Winch (1984) University of Illinois Archives[1]

Peter Guy Winch (14 January 1926 – 27 April 1997) was a British philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of social science, Wittgenstein scholarship, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. His early book The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (1958) was an attack on positivism in the social sciences, drawing on the work of R. G. Collingwood and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy.

  1. ^ "Portrait of Peter Winch | University of Illinois Archives". archives.library.illinois.edu. Retrieved 18 July 2019.

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