The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Notes on Contributors.
<p>Introduction: Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science. (Stephen P. Turner and Paul A. Roth).</p>
<p>Part I: Pasts.</p>
<p>1. Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science. (Stephen P. Turner).</p>
<p>2. Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to Culture and Critique.( Brian Fay).</p>
<p>3. Twentieth–century Philosophy of Social Science in the Analytic Tradition. (Thomas Uebel).</p>
<p>Part II: Programs.:.</p>
<p>4. Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants, Observers and Critics. (James Bohman).</p>
<p>5. Decision Theory and Degree of Belief. (Piers Rawling).</p>
<p>6. The Methodology of Rational Choice. (Lars Udehn).</p>
<p>7. Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences. (Paul Humphreys).</p>
<p>8. The Practical Turn. (David Stern).</p>
<p>9. Science &amp; Technology Studies and the Philosophy of Social Sciences. (Steve Fuller).</p>
<p>Part III: Problematics.</p>
<p>10. "See Also Literary Criticism": Social Science Between Fact and Figures. (Hans Kellner).</p>
<p>11. The Descent of Evolutionary Explanations: Darwinian Vestiges in the Social Sciences. (Lynn Hankinson Nelson).</p>
<p>12. How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science. (Sandra Harding).</p>
<p>13. Beyond Understanding: The Career of the Concept of Understanding in the Human Sciences. (Paul A. Roth).</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index.</p>