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The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of the social sciences / edited by Stephen P. Turner and Paul A. Roth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell philosophy guidesPublisher: Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003Description: viii, 382 pISBN:
  • 0631215387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0631215379 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Philosophy of the social sciences [Portion of title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.1
LOC classification:
  • H61. B4774 2003
Contents:
Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science -- Pt. I. Pasts -- 1. Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science -- 2. Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to Culture and Critique -- 3. Twentieth-century Philosophy of Social Science in the Analytic Tradition -- Pt. II. Programs -- 4. Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants, Observers, and Critics -- 5. Decision Theory and Degree of Belief -- 6. The Methodology of Rational Choice -- 7. Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences -- 8. The Practical Turn -- 9. Science & Technology Studies and the Philosophy of Social Sciences -- Pt. III. Problematics -- 10. "See Also Literary Criticism": Social Science Between Fact and Figures -- 11. The Descent of Evolutionary Explanations: Darwinian Vestiges in the Social Sciences -- 12. How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science -- 13. Beyond Understanding: The Career of the Concept of Understanding in the Human Sciences -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science -- Pt. I. Pasts -- 1. Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science -- 2. Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to Culture and Critique -- 3. Twentieth-century Philosophy of Social Science in the Analytic Tradition -- Pt. II. Programs -- 4. Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants, Observers, and Critics -- 5. Decision Theory and Degree of Belief -- 6. The Methodology of Rational Choice -- 7. Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences -- 8. The Practical Turn -- 9. Science & Technology Studies and the Philosophy of Social Sciences -- Pt. III. Problematics -- 10. "See Also Literary Criticism": Social Science Between Fact and Figures -- 11. The Descent of Evolutionary Explanations: Darwinian Vestiges in the Social Sciences -- 12. How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science -- 13. Beyond Understanding: The Career of the Concept of Understanding in the Human Sciences -- Bibliography -- Index.

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