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, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780521517744; 9780521739061
Subjects: Social sciences -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.