Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.

• General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods)PrefaceList of ContributorsI. Sociology and QuanitificationDefining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945(Stephen Turner)Measurement (Joel Michell)The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory (Jerald Hage)Causal Models in the Social Sciences (James Woodward)II Individualism and HolismFunctional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science (Harold Kinaid)Evolutionary Explanations (Valerie Haines)Holism and Supervenience (Julie Zahle)Levels of the Social (Daniel Little)Rational Choice (Alessandro Pizzorno)III. Anthropology, Culture and InterpretationEthnography and Culture (Mark Risjord)Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences (Warren Schmaus)Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches (William Outhwaite)The Origins of Ethnomethodology (Michael Lynch)Philosophy of Archaeology: Philosophy in Archaeology (Alison Wylie)IV. Rationality and NormativityRelativism and Historicism (Ian Jarvie)The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs (Steven Lukes)Language and Translation (David Henderson)Practice Theory (Joe Rouse)Naturalism without Fears (Paul Roth)V. Critical ApproachesWe, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy and Social Science (James Bohman)Race in the Social Sciences (Michael Root)Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science (Sharon Crasnow)What's "New" in the Sociology of Knowledge? (John Zammito)Index