Philosophy of the social sciences : philosophical theory and scientific practice /
This volume is a unique contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences, presenting the results of cutting-edge philosophers' research alongside critical discussions by practicing social scientists. The book is motivated by the view that the philosophy of the social sciences cannot ignore...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / C. Mantzavinos
- Part I : basic problems of sociality
- Language and social ontology / John R. Searle
- Comment : de rerum natura : dragons of obliviousness and the science of social ontology / Mark Turner
- Shared agency / Michael E. Bratman
- Comment : where is the social? / Pierre Demeulenaere
- The reality of group agents / Philip Pettit
- Comment : a note on group agents / Diego Rios
- Part II : laws and explanation in the social sciences
- Pysicalism and the human sciences / David Papineau
- Comment : reductionism in the human sciences : a philosopher's game / Robert Shulman and Ian Shapiro
- Complexity and explanation in the social sciences / Sandra Mitchell
- Comment : conditional knowledge : an oxymoron? / James Alt
- The heterogeneous social : new thinking about the foundations of the social sciences / Daniel Little
- Comment : causal mechanisms and generalizations / Jack Knight
- What is this thing called "efficacy"? / Nancy Cartwright
- Comment : randomized controlled trials and public policy / Gerd Gigerenzer
- Part III : how philosophy and the social sciences can enrich each other : three examples
- Why do people cooperate as much as they do? / James Woodward
- Comment : putting the problem of social order into perspective / Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt
- Situations against virtues : the situationist attack on virtue theory / Ernest Sosa
- Comment : do people have character traits? / Steven Lukes
- What kind of problem is the hermeneutic circle? / C. Mantzavinos
- Comment : going in circles / David-Hillel Ruben
- Epilogue / C. Mantzavinos.
