Philosophy of the social sciences
Subtitle: philosophical theory and scientific practice
By: [edited by]  C. Mantzavinos.
Contributors: Mantzavinos, Chrysostomos.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521517744; 9780521739061
Subjects: Social sciences -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: Introduction / C. Mantzavinos; title: Part I: Basic problems of sociality; title: Language and social ontology / John R. Searle; title: Comment: de rerum natura : dragons of obliviousness and the science of social ontology / Mark Turner; title: Shared agency / Michael E. Bratman; title: Comment: where is the social? / Pierre Demeulenaere; title: The reality of group agents / Philip Pettit; title: Comment: a note on group agents / Diego Rios; title: Part II: Laws and explanation in the social sciences; title: Pysicalism and the human sciences / David Papineau; title: Comment: reductionism in the human sciences : a philosopher's game / Robert Shulman and Ian Shapiro; title: Complexity and explanation in the social sciences / Sandra Mitchell; title: Comment: conditional knowledge : an oxymoron? / James Alt; title: The heterogeneous social : new thinking about the foundations of the social sciences / Daniel Little; title: Comment: causal mechanisms and generalizations / Jack Knight; title: What is this thing called 'efficacy'? / Nancy Cartwright; title: Comment: randomized controlled trials and public policy / Gerd Gigerenzer; title: Part III: How philosophy and the social sciences can enrich each other : three examples; title: Why do people cooperate as much as they do? / James Woodward; title: Comment: putting the problem of social order into perspective / Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt; title: Situations against virtues : the situationist attack on virtue theory / Ernest Sosa; title: Comment: do people have character traits? / Steven Lukes; title: What kind of problem is the hermeneutic circle? / C. Mantzavinos; title: Comment: going in circles / David-Hillel Ruben; title: Epilogue / C. Mantzavinos.