The Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science / 
 Philosophy of social science 
edited by Harold Kincaid. 
 - xviii, 657 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
 - Oxford handbooks .
 - Oxford handbooks. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195392752 9780195392753 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011036789 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social sciences--Philosophy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Social sciences--Research--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H61  / .O95 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.1