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Philosophy of Social Science - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Philosophy of Social Science - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
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Philosophy of Social Science: A Contemporary Introduction examines
perennial questions of philosophy through engaging the empirical
study of society. Questions of normativity concern the place of
values in social scientific inquiry. Questions of naturalism
concern the relationship between the natural and the social
sciences. And questions of reductionism ask how social institutions
relate to the people who constitute them. This accessible text
offers a comprehensive overview of debates in the field, with
special attention to new research programs. Topics include the
relationship of social policy to social science, interpretive
research, cognitive and evolutionary explanations, intentional
action explanation, rational choice theory, conventions and social
norms, joint intentionality, causal inference, and experimentation.
Detailed examples of social scientific research motivate the
philosophical questions and illustrate the important concepts.
Treating philosophical commitments as implicit in social science,
students of the social sciences will benefit from its application
of philosophical argument to methodological and theoretical
problems. The text argues that social science transforms
philosophical questions, and students of philosophy will benefit
from its direct engagement with contemporary debates. The Second
Edition provides updates with the most recent literature and adds
two new chapters: one on modeling and one on the role of race and
gender in the social sciences. Key Updates to the Second Edition: A
new chapter on "Modeling and Explaining," which explores how models
represent social systems and whether highly idealized models
explain A new chapter on "Race and Other Social Constructions,"
capturing much of the recent empirical research and philosophical
interest in the social construction of categories like race and
gender Revised and updated chapters throughout, clarifying earlier
presentations and bringing discussions from the First Edition into
line with new research Updated annotated Further Reading lists,
which now include relevant publications from 2013 to 2022.
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