Description
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts.
- Historical and Philosophical Context
- Concepts
- Debates
- Individual Sciences
Edited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of social science, and its many areas of connection and overlap with key debates in the philosophy of science.
Table of Contents
Part I. Historical and philosophical context
- Comte and the Positivist Vision
- Durkheim and the Methods of Scientific Sociology
- Verstehen and the Reaction Against Positivism
- The Development of Logical Empiricism
- Kuhn’s Influence on the Social Sciences
- Popper’s Influence on the Social Sciences
- Interpretation and Critical Theory
- The Empirical Counter-Revolution
- Explanation
- Reductionism
- Emergence
- Methodological Individualism
- Functionalism
- Naturalism
- Game Theory
- Situational Analysis
- Bias in Social Scientific Experimentation
- Causal Inference and Modeling
- Collective Intentionality
- Microfoundations, Mechanism, and Causal Powers
- Social Ontology
- Realism and Anti-Realism
- Critical Realism
- Objectivity
- Are There Social Scientific Laws?
- Behavioral Economics
- Machine Epistemology and Big Data
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Cognitive Science
- The Social Construction of Knowledge
- Feminism in Social Research
- Race in Social Research
- Philosophy of Economics
- Philosophy of History
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Philosophy of Sociology & Anthropology
- Why Is There No Philosophy of Political Science?
Vincent Guillin
Warren Schmaus
Brian Fay
Thomas Uebel
K. Brad Wray
Jeremy Shearmur
Ken Baynes
Jaakko Kuorikoski
Part II. Concepts
David Henderson
Harold Kincaid
Julie Zahle
Petri Ylikoski
Alex Rosenberg
David Livingstone Smith
Cristina Bicchieri & Giacomo Sillari
Kevin D. Hoover
Sharon Crasnow
Tuukka Kaidesoja
Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic
Dan Little
Brian Epstein
Kareem Khalifa & Randall Harp
Justin Cruickshank
Eleonora Montuschi
Part III. Debates
Julian Reiss
Conrad Heilmann
Greg Wheeler
Stephen M. Downes
Stephen Turner and David Eck
Steve Fuller
Marianne Janack
Michael Root
Part IV. Individual Sciences
Don Ross
Paul A. Roth
Nico Orlandi & Janette Dinishak
Mark Risjord
Bruno Verbeek & Lee McIntyre
