The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science

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Oxford University Press (2012)
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This Handbook is a major, comprehensive look at the key ideas in the field, is guided by several principles.

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H61.O95 2012

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9780195392753   0195392752   9780190845773   0190845775   9780199971084
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Mechanistic social probability : how individual choices and varying circumstances produce stable social patterns.Marshall Abrams
Values and the science of well-being : a recipe for mixing.Anna Alexandrova
Useful causal complexity.David Byrne & Emma Uprichard
Useful complex causality.David Byrne & Emma Uprichard
RCTs, evidence and predicting policy effectiveness.Nancy Cartwright
The impact of Duhemian principles on social science testing and progress.Fred Chernoff
Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences.Andrew Gelman & Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Descriptive-causal generalizations : "empirical laws" in the social sciences?Gary Goertz
The evolutionary programme in social philosophy.Francesco Guala
Evaluating social policy.Daniel M. Hausman
Norms.David Henderson
Social constructions of mental illness.Allan Horwitz
Introduction: doing philosophy of social science.Harold Kincaid
Mechanisms, causal modeling, and the limitations of traditional multiple regression.Harold Kincaid
The potential value of computational models in social science research.Ken Kollman
Cultural evolution : integration and scepticism.Tim Lewens
Integration and skepticism.Tim Lewens
Making race out of nothing : psychologically constrained social roles.Ron Mallon & Daniel Kelly
A feminist empirical and integrative approach in political science : breaking-down the glass wall?Amy G. Mazur
Bringing context and variability back in to causal analysis.Stephen Morgan & Christopher Winship
Variability back into causal analysis.Stephen L. Morgan & Christopher Winship
Partial explanations in social science’.Robert Northcott
Counterfactuals.Julian Reiss
Models of culture.Mark Risjord
Coordination and the foundations of social intelligence.Don Ross
Sciences of historical tokens and theoretical types : history and the social sciences.Aviezer Tucker
Process tracing and causal mechanisms.David Waldner
Cooperation and reciprocity : empirical evidence and normative implications.James Woodward
Micro, macro, and mechanisms.Petri Ylikoski

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