Functionalist Successes and Excesses in the Social Sciences

Analyse & Kritik 24 (1):60-71 (2002)
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This paper presents a model of functional explanations as a species of ordinary causal explanation and argues that they are widespread for understandable reasons in the social sciences. The remainder of the paper then looks at specific functional explanations in the social research and examines the prospects and problems for those accounts.

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10.1515/auk-2002-0103

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Contextualism, explanation and the social sciences.Harold Kincaid - 2004 - Philosophical Explorations 7 (3):201 – 218.

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