The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Abstract

Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science. (Stephen P. Turner and Paul A. Roth). Part I: Pasts. 1. Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science. (Stephen P. Turner). 2. Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to Culture and Critique.( Brian Fay). 3. Twentieth--century Philosophy of Social Science in the Analytic Tradition. (Thomas Uebel). Part II: Programs.:. 4. Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants, Observers and Critics. (James Bohman). 5. Decision Theory and Degree of Belief. (Piers Rawling). 6. The Methodology of Rational Choice. (Lars Udehn). 7. Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences. (Paul Humphreys). 8. The Practical Turn. (David Stern). 9. Science & Technology Studies and the Philosophy of Social Sciences. (Steve Fuller). Part III: Problematics. 10. See Also Literary Criticism: Social Science Between Fact and Figures. (Hans Kellner). 11. The Descent of Evolutionary Explanations: Darwinian Vestiges in the Social Sciences. (Lynn Hankinson Nelson). 12. How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science. (Sandra Harding). 13. Beyond Understanding: The Career of the Concept of Understanding in the Human Sciences. (Paul A. Roth). Bibliography. Index.