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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts.
Historical and Philosophical Context
Concepts
Debates
Individual Sciences
Edited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of social science, and its many areas of connection and overlap with key debates in the philosophy of science.
List of contents
Part I. Historical and philosophical context
- Comte and the Positivist Vision
Vincent Guillin
- Durkheim and the Methods of Scientific Sociology
Warren Schmaus
- Verstehen and the Reaction Against Positivism
Brian Fay
- The Development of Logical Empiricism
Thomas Uebel
- Kuhn’s Influence on the Social Sciences
K. Brad Wray
- Popper’s Influence on the Social Sciences
Jeremy Shearmur
- Interpretation and Critical Theory
Ken Baynes
- The Empirical Counter-Revolution
Jaakko Kuorikoski
Part II. Concepts
- Explanation
David Henderson
- Reductionism
Harold Kincaid
- Emergence
Julie Zahle
- Methodological Individualism
Petri Ylikoski
- Functionalism
Alex Rosenberg
- Naturalism
David Livingstone Smith
- Game Theory
Cristina Bicchieri & Giacomo Sillari
- Situational Analysis
Kevin D. Hoover
- Bias in Social Scientific Experimentation
Sharon Crasnow
- Causal Inference and Modeling
Tuukka Kaidesoja
- Collective Intentionality
Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic
- Microfoundations, Mechanism, and Causal Powers
Dan Little
- Social Ontology
Brian Epstein
About the author
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He is the author of several books, including Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age (Routledge 2015) and Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (MIT Press, 2006).
Alex Rosenberg is an American philosopher and the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Rosenberg has written many books, including The Atheist s Guide to Reality. The Girl from Krakow is his first novel. It is based on the experiences of several individuals through the 1930s and World War II.
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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the ma
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A state-of-the-art collection of original essays by the best writers in the field of history and philosophy of the social sciences.--Merrilee H. Salmon, University of Pittsburgh
