CONTENTS // Acknowledgements ix // Introduction 1 // Part 1: The role of the researcher: limits, obligations and virtues 15 // 1 Methodology, who needs it? 17 // 2 On the social scientist as intellectual 43 // 3 Should social science be critical? 75 // 4 Objectivity as an intellectual virtue 89 // 5 Too good to be false? The ethics of belief 105 // Part 2: The dialectic of knowledge production 121 // 6 Models of research: discovery, construction, and understanding 123 // 7 Merely academic? A dialectic for research communities 138 // 8 Academic licence and its limits: the case of Holocaust denial 159 // Epilogue 185 // References 188 // Name Index 209 // Subject Index // 212