Philosophy of social science
By: Alexander Rosenberg
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780813345925; 9780813345932
Subjects: Philosophy; Social sciences
Table of contents: title: What is the philosophy of social science; title: The methodological divide: naturalism v. interpretation; title: The explanation of human action; title: Intentionality and intensionality; title: Behaviorism in the behavioral sciences; title: Problems of rational choice theory; title: Social psychology and the construction of society; title: Philosophical anthropology; title: Holism and antireductionism in sociology and psychology; title: Functionalism as a research program; title: Sociobiology or the standard social science model?; title: Theories of cultural evolution; title: Research ethics in social inquiry; title: Facts and values in the human sciences; title: Social science and the enduring questions of philosophy.