The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Copyright © 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Editor(s): Stephen P. Turner, Paul A. Roth

Published Online: 21 JAN 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631215370

Online ISBN: 9780470756485

DOI: 10.1002/9780470756485

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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences collects newly commissioned essays that examine fundamental issues in the social sciences.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–viii)

    1. Introduction. Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science (pages 1–17)

      Stephen P. Turner and Paul A. Roth

  3. Part I: Pasts

    1. Chapter 1

      Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science (pages 19–41)

      Stephen P. Turner

    2. Chapter 2

      Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to Culture and Critique (pages 42–63)

      Brian Fay

    3. Chapter 3

      Twentieth-century Philosophy of Social Science in the Analytic Tradition (pages 64–88)

      Thomas Uebel

  4. Part II: Programs

    1. Chapter 4

      Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants, Observers, and Critics (pages 89–109)

      James Bohman

    2. Chapter 5

      Decision Theory and Degree of Belief (pages 110–142)

      Piers Rawling

    3. Chapter 6

      The Methodology of Rational Choice (pages 143–165)

      Lars Udehn

    4. Chapter 7

      Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences (pages 166–184)

      Paul Humphreys

    5. Chapter 8

      The Practical Turn (pages 185–206)

      David G. Stern

    6. Chapter 9

      Science & Technology Studies and the Philosophy of Social Sciences (pages 207–333)

      Steve Fuller

  5. Part III: Problematics

    1. Chapter 10

      “See Also Literary Criticism ”: Social Science Between Fact and Figures (pages 235–257)

      Hans Kellner

    2. Chapter 11

      The Descent of Evolutionary Explanations: Darwinian Vestiges in the Social Sciences (pages 258–290)

      Lynn Hankinson Nelson

    3. Chapter 12

      How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science (pages 291–310)

      Sandra Harding

    4. Chapter 13

      Beyond Understanding: The Career of the Concept of Understanding in the Human Sciences (pages 311–333)

      Paul A. Roth

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      Bibliography (pages 334–367)

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      Index (pages 368–382)

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