The Philosophy of Social Science: Metaphysical and Empirical

Philosophy Compass 2 (6):954-980 (2007)
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opinionated survey paper to be published in the Blackwell’s Philosophy Compass.

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Convention: A Philosophical Study.David Kellogg Lewis - 1969 - Cambridge, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.
The social construction of what?Ian Hacking - 1999 - Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

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