Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science
By Michael Martin (Editor); Lee C. McIntyre (Editor)
(Bradford Book, Paperback, 9780262631518, 813pp.)
Publication Date: March 1994
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: History, Methodology
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This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of socialscience to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in thediscipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarship in the field andcould be used as the basis for an entire course.The anthology offers one complete, convenient, and well-chosen selection of readings, plus three specially commissionedarticles that encompass the entire range of topics in the field and cover both sidesof currently hot debates about explanation, methodological individualism, and thespecial sciences. The introductions to each section provide a map through thediscipline.Michael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Lee C.McIntyre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University.Sections cover: Explanation, Prediction, and Laws. Interpretation and Meaning. Rationality.Functional Explanation. Reductionism, Individualism, and Holism. Objectivity andValues. Problems of the Special Sciences.Commissioned articles: Taylor onInterpretation and the Sciences of Man Michael Martin. Microfoundations of Marxism, D. Little. Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Empiricism in Archaeology, A.Wylie.
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1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf |
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The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
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The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf |
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Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf |
