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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science
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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

  • Realism and Anti-Realism

  • Kareem Khalifa & Randall Harp

  • Critical Realism

  • Justin Cruickshank

  • Objectivity

  • Eleonora Montuschi

    Part III. Debates

  • Are There Social Scientific Laws?

  • Julian Reiss

  • Behavioral Economics

  • Conrad Heilmann

  • Machine Epistemology and Big Data

  • Greg Wheeler

  • Evolutionary Psychology

  • Stephen M. Downes

  • Cognitive Science

  • Stephen Turner and David Eck

  • The Social Construction of Knowledge

  • Steve Fuller

  • Feminism in Social Research

  • Marianne Janack

  • Race in Social Research

  • Michael Root

    Part IV. Individual Sciences

  • Philosophy of Economics

  • Don Ross

  • Philosophy of History

  • Paul A. Roth

  • Philosophy of Psychology

  • Nico Orlandi & Janette Dinishak

  • Philosophy of Sociology & Anthropology

  • Mark Risjord

  • Why Is There No Philosophy of Political Science?

    • Bruno Verbeek & Lee McIntyre

    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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    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

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