Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice 9780511651717, 0511651716, 9780511812880, 0511812884, 978-0-521-73906-1, 978-0-511-75789-1, 978-0-511-75825-6, 978-0-521-51774-4

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Table of contents :
Content: Introduction / C. Mantzavinos --
Part I : basic problems of sociality --
Language and social ontology / John R. Searle --
Comment : de rerum natura : dragons of obliviousness and the science of social ontology / Mark Turner --
Shared agency / Michael E. Bratman --
Comment : where is the social? / Pierre Demeulenaere --
The reality of group agents / Philip Pettit --
Comment : a note on group agents / Diego Rios --
Part II : laws and explanation in the social sciences --
Pysicalism and the human sciences / David Papineau --
Comment : reductionism in the human sciences : a philosopher's game / Robert Shulman and Ian Shapiro --
Complexity and explanation in the social sciences / Sandra Mitchell --
Comment : conditional knowledge : an oxymoron? / James Alt --
The heterogeneous social : new thinking about the foundations of the social sciences / Daniel Little --
Comment : causal mechanisms and generalizations / Jack Knight --
What is this thing called "efficacy"? / Nancy Cartwright --
Comment : randomized controlled trials and public policy / Gerd Gigerenzer --
Part III : how philosophy and the social sciences can enrich each other : three examples --
Why do people cooperate as much as they do? / James Woodward --
Comment : putting the problem of social order into perspective / Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt --
Situations against virtues : the situationist attack on virtue theory / Ernest Sosa --
Comment : do people have character traits? / Steven Lukes --
What kind of problem is the hermeneutic circle? / C. Mantzavinos --
Comment : going in circles / David-Hillel Ruben --
Epilogue / C. Mantzavinos.

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