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A Volume in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series
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Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London, UK
Stephen Turner, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, U.S.A.
Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mark Risjord, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A.
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Description
This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of
issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend
to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work.
Audience
Philosophers and Social Scientists
Contents
General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods)
Preface
List of Contributors
I. Sociology and Quanitification
Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945
(Stephen Turner)
Measurement (Joel Michell)
The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory (Jerald Hage)
Causal Models
in the Social Sciences (James Woodward)
II Individualism and Holism
Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science
(Harold Kinaid)
Evolutionary Explanations (Valerie Haines)
Holism and Supervenience (Julie Zahle)
Levels of the Social (Daniel Little)
Rational Choice (Alessandro Pizzorno)
III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation
Ethnography and Culture (Mark Risjord)
Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences (Warren Schmaus)
Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches (William Outhwaite)
The Origins of Ethnomethodology (Michael Lynch)
Philosophy of Archaeology: Philosophy in Archaeology (Alison Wylie)
IV. Rationality
and Normativity
Relativism and Historicism (Ian Jarvie)
The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs (Steven Lukes)
Language
and Translation (David Henderson)
Practice Theory (Joe Rouse)
Naturalism without Fears (Paul Roth)
V. Critical Approaches
We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy and Social Science (James Bohman)
Race in the Social Sciences (Michael Root)
Feminist
Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science (Sharon Crasnow)
What's "New" in the Sociology of Knowledge? (John Zammito)
Index
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Hardbound, 900 pages, publication date: OCT-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51542-1
ISBN-10: 0-444-51542-9
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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