Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Introduction -- Two styles of explanation : interpretation and inquiry -- Interpretation -- Inquiry -- Different tasks -- Perspective -- Contrary responses : an example -- Mixed modes -- Applications -- Values -- Morality -- Politics -- Interpretation : self and society -- Origin and context -- Distortion -- Emotion -- Assumptions for a taxonomy -- Stories -- Socialized interpretations -- Eliding fact and value -- Magic, myth, and metaphor -- Faith and fantasy -- Philosophic rationales -- Tolerance -- Inquiry : practical life and science -- Context and objectives -- Meaning -- Truth -- Animadversions -- Engaging other people and things -- Aims -- Ideals -- A choice -- A disputed question -- Ontological alternatives -- The dialectic of untestable ideas -- Reconciliation -- Imagination -- Construction -- Construction rules -- Variation -- Discipline -- Leading principles -- Priority -- Precedents -- Use -- An inventory of leading principles -- Values -- When practical life and science disagree -- Categorial form.