1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science

Edited By Lee McIntyre, Alex Rosenberg Copyright 2017
    476 Pages
    by Routledge

    474 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts.









      • Historical and Philosophical Context






      • Concepts






      • Debates






      • Individual Sciences




    Edited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of social science, and its many areas of connection and overlap with key debates in the philosophy of science.

               Part I. Historical and philosophical context









    1. Comte and the Positivist Vision




    2. Vincent Guillin







    3. Durkheim and the Methods of Scientific Sociology




    4. Warren Schmaus







    5. Verstehen and the Reaction Against Positivism




    6. Brian Fay







    7. The Development of Logical Empiricism




    8. Thomas Uebel







    9. Kuhn’s Influence on the Social Sciences




    10. K. Brad Wray







    11. Popper’s Influence on the Social Sciences




    12. Jeremy Shearmur







    13. Interpretation and Critical Theory




    14. Ken Baynes







    15. The Empirical Counter-Revolution




    16. Jaakko Kuorikoski





      Part II. Concepts







    17. Explanation




    18. David Henderson







    19. Reductionism




    20. Harold Kincaid







    21. Emergence




    22. Julie Zahle







    23. Methodological Individualism




    24. Petri Ylikoski







    25. Functionalism




    26. Alex Rosenberg







    27. Naturalism




    28. David Livingstone Smith







    29. Game Theory




    30. Cristina Bicchieri & Giacomo Sillari







    31. Situational Analysis




    32. Kevin D. Hoover







    33. Bias in Social Scientific Experimentation




    34. Sharon Crasnow







    35. Causal Inference and Modeling




    36. Tuukka Kaidesoja







    37. Collective Intentionality




    38. Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic







    39. Microfoundations, Mechanism, and Causal Powers




    40. Dan Little







    41. Social Ontology




    42. Brian Epstein



    Biography

    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.

    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