The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences

Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms, Methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandeville to Mannheim - Joseph Agassi Continental Philosophies of the Social Sciences - David Teira The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20th Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitatstreit - Paul Roth PART TWO: CENTRAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL ONTOLOGY Naturalism: The Place of Society in Nature - Don Ross Language and Society - Frank Hindriks Social Minds - Laurence Kaufmann Rational Agency - Fred D'Agostino Individualism, Collective Agency and the 'Micro-Macro Relation' - Alban Bouvier Rules, Norms and Commitments - Fabienne Peter and Kai Spiekermann Systems Theory - Andrea Pickel The Concept of Culture as Ontological Paradox - Angel Diaz de Rada Power and Social Class in the 21st Century - Daniel Little Causality, Causal Models and Social Mechanisms - Daniel Steel PART THREE: A PHILOSOPHER'S GUIDE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE PARADIGMS Rational-Choice Theory - Cedric Paternotte Game Theory - Giacomo Bonanno Social Networks - Joan de Marti and Yves Zenou Normative Criteria of Social Choice - Maurice Salles and Antoinette Baujard Analytical Sociology - Peter Hedstrom and Petri Ylikoski Institutions - Chrysostomos Mantzavinos Evolutionary Approaches - Geoffrey Hodgson Functionalism and Structuralism - Anthony King Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Ethnomethodology - Hans-Herbert Koegler Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism - Alex Dennis Social Constructionism, Postmodernism and Deconstructionism - Patrick Baert, Darin Weinberg and Veronique Mottier Theories of Culture, Cognition and Action - Sun-Ki Chai Communicative Action and Critical Theory - Martin Morris PART FOUR: METHODOLOGY: ASSESSING AND USING SOCIAL THEORIES Facts, Values and Objectivity - Heather Douglas Idealized Representations, Inferential Devices and Cross-Disciplinary Tools: Theoretical Models in Social Sciences - Tarja Knuutila and Jaakko Kuorikoski Empirical Evidence: Its Nature and Sources - Julian Reiss Experiments - Francesco Guala Mathematics and Statistics in the Social Sciences - Stephan Hartmann and Jan Sprenger Artificial Worlds and Agent-Based Simulation - Till Gr ne-Yanoff Explanation in the Social Sciences - Jeroen van Bouwel and Erik Weber Prediction - Gregor Betz Science and Technology Studies and Social Epistemology: The Struggle for Normativity in Social Theories of Knowledge - Steve Fuller Expert Judgment - Maria Jimenez and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla Social Technology - Maarten Derksen and Anne Beaulieu EPILOGUE: Rationality in the Social Sciences: Bridging the Gap - Jesus Zamora-Bonilla