The Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science / edited by Harold Kincaid.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford handbooksPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xviii, 657 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195392752
- 9780195392753
- Philosophy of social science [Parallel title]
- 300.1 23
- H61 .O95 2012
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300.1 MAN Semiotics and fieldwork / | 300.1 MAN Understanding society : a survey of modern social theory / | 300.1 OUT Social theory / | 300.1 OXF The Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science / | 300.1 POR Ideology : contemporary social, political and cultural theory / | 300.1 RAN Social theory for beginners / | 300.1 ROB Social theory, sport, leisure / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: doing philosophy of social science / Harold Kincaid -- Micro, macro, and mechanisms / Petri Ylikoski -- Mechanisms, causal modeling, and the limitations of traditional multiple regression / Harold Kincaid -- Process tracing and causal mechanisms / David Waldner -- Descriptive-causal generalizations : "empirical laws" in the social sciences? / Gary Goertz -- Useful complex causality / David Byrne and Emma Uprichard -- Partial explanations in social science / Robert Northcott -- Counterfactuals / Julian Reiss -- Mechanistic social probability : how individual choices and varying circumstances produce stable social patterns / Marshall Abrams -- The impact of Duhemian principles on social science testing and progress / Fred Chernoff -- Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences / Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi -- Sciences of historical tokens and theoretical types : history and the social sciences / Aviezer Tucker -- RCTs, evidence and predicting policy effectiveness / Nancy Cartwright -- Bringing context and variability back in to causal analysis / Stephen L. Morgan and Christopher Winship -- The potential value of computational models in social science research / Ken Kollman -- Models of culture / Mark Risjord -- Norms / David Henderson -- The evolutionary program in social philosophy / Francesco Guala -- Cultural evolution : integration and scepticism / Tim Lewens -- Coordination and the foundations of social intelligence / Don Ross -- Making race out of nothing : psychologically constrained social roles / Ron Mallon and Daniel Kelly -- A feminist empirical and integrative approach in political science : breaking-down the glass wall? / Amy G. Mazur -- Social constructions of mental illness / Allan Horwitz -- Cooperation and reciprocity : empirical evidence and normative implications / James Woodward -- Evaluating social policy / Daniel M. Hausman -- Values and the science of well-being : a recipe for mixing / Anna Alexandrova.
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