The Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science
By: edited by Harold Kincaid
Series: Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195392753
Subjects: Philosophy; Social sciences; Research
Other titles: Philosophy of social science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: doing philosophy of social science / Harold Kincaid; title: Micro, macro, and mechanisms / Petri Ylikoski; title: Mechanisms, causal modeling, and the limitations of traditional multiple regression / Harold Kincaid; title: Process tracing and causal mechanisms / David Waldner; title: Descriptive-causal generalizations : "empirical laws" in the social sciences? / Gary Goertz; title: Useful causal complexity / David Byrne and Emma Uprichard; title: Partial explanations in social science / Robert Northcott; title: Counterfactuals / Julian Reiss; title: Mechanistic social probability : how individual choices and varying circumstances produce stable social patterns / Marshall Abrams; title: The impact of Duhemian principles on social science testing and progress / Fred Chernoff; title: Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences / Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi; title: Sciences of historical tokens and theoretical types : history and the social sciences / Aviezer Tucker; title: RCTs, evidence and predicting policy effectiveness / Nancy Cartwright; title: Bringing context and variability back in to causal analysis / Stephen Morgan and Christopher Winship; title: The potential value of computational models in social science research / Ken Kollman; title: Models of culture / Mark Risjord; title: Norms / David Henderson; title: The evolutionary programme in social philosophy / Francesco Guala; title: Cultural evolution : integration and scepticism / Tim Lewens; title: Coordination and the foundations of social intelligence / Don Ross; title: Making race out of nothing : psychologically constrained social roles / Ron Mallon & Daniel Kelly Mallon; title: A feminist empirical and integrative approach in political science : breaking-down the glass wall? / Amy G. Mazur; title: Social constructions of mental illness / Allan Horwitz; title: Cooperation and reciprocity : empirical evidence and normative implications / James Woodward; title: Evaluating social policy / Daniel M. Hausman; title: Values and the science of well-being : a recipe for mixing / Anna Alexandrova.