The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science
- New York Oxford University Press 2012
- 657p
includes index and biblioraphy
mechanisms, explanation, and causation Micro, Macro, and Mechanisms 21 Petri Ylikoski Mechanisms, Causal Modeling, and the Limitations of Traditional Multiple Regression 46 Harold Kincaid Process Tracing and Causal Mechanisms 65 David Waldner Descriptive-Causal Generalizations: "Empirical Laws" in the Social Sciences? 85 Gary Goertz Useful Complex Causality 109 David Byrne and Emma Uprichard Partial Explanations in Social Science 130 Robert Northcott Counterfactuals 154 Julian Reiss Mechanistic Social Probability: How Individual Choices and Varying Circumstances Produce Stable Social Patterns 184 Marshall Abrams evidence The Impact of Duhemian Principles on Social Science Testing and Progress 229 Fred Chernoff Philosophy and the Practice of Bayesian Statistics in the Social Sciences 259 Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi Sciences of Historical Tokens and Theoretical Types: History and the Social Sciences 274 Aviezer Tucker RCTs, Evidence, and Predicting Policy Effectiveness 298 Nancy Cartwright Bringing Context and Variability Back into Causal Analysis 319 Stephen L. Morgan and Christopher Winship The Potential Value of Computational Models in Social Science Research 355 Ken Kollman norms, culture, and the social-psychological Models of Culture 387 Mark Risjord Norms 409 David Henderson The Evolutionary Program in Social Philosophy 436 Francesco Guala Cultural Evolution: Integration and Skepticism 458 Tim Lewens 20. Coordination and the Foundations of Social Intelligence 481 Don Ross Making Race Out of Nothing: Psychologically Constrained Social Roles 507 Ron Mallon and Daniel Kelly sociology of knowledge A Feminist Empirical and Integrative Approach in Political Science: Breaking Down the Glass Wall? 533 Amy G. Mazur Social Constructions of Mental Illness 559 Allan Horwitz normative connections Cooperation and Reciprocity: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications 581 James Woodward Evaluating Social Policy 607 Daniel M. Hausman Values and the Science of Well-Being: A Recipe for Mixing 625 Anna Alexandrova