Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science

by Michael Martin (Editor)

This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in the discipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarship in the field and could be used as the basis for an entire course.

The anthology offers one complete, convenient, and well-chosen selection of readings, plus three specially commissioned articles that encompass the entire range of topics in the field and cover both sides of currently hot debates about explanation, methodological individualism, and the special sciences. The introductions to each section provide a map through the discipline.

Michael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Lee C. McIntyre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University.

Sections Explanation, Prediction, and Laws. Interpretation and Meaning. Rationality. Functional Explanation. Reductionism, Individualism, and Holism. Objectivity and Values. Problems of the Special Sciences.

Commissioned

Taylor on Interpretation and the Sciences of Mani Michael Martin. Microfoundations of Marxism, D. Little. Evidential Pragmatic Empiricism in Archaeology, A. Wylie.

Genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Social Science, Nonfiction

785 pages, Hardcover

First published March 22, 1994

Reviews

[Saba Mirzahosseini Barough · Rating 4 out of 5]

I only read the chapter 4, the article called "The Theory of Complex Phenomena" by F.A.Hayek .

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Nice book