The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science

Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki.

• Preface1. Introduction: Doing Philosophy of Social Science, Harold Kincaid Part 1. Mechanisms, Explanation and Causation2. Micro, Macro, and Mechanisms, Petri Ylikoski3. Mechanisms, Causal Modeling, and the Limitations of Traditional Multiple Regression, Harold Kincaid4. Process Tracing and Causal Mechanisms, David Waldner5. Descriptive-causal Generalizations:"Empirical Laws" in the Social Sciences?, Gary Goertz6. Useful Causal Complexity, David Byrne and Emma Uprichard7. Partial Explanations in Social Science, Robert Northcott8. Counterfactuals, Julian Reiss9. Mechanistic Social Probability: How Individual Choices and Varying Circumstances Produce Stable Social Patterns, Marshall Abrams Part II. Evidence10. The Impact of Duhemian Principles on Social Science Testing and Progress, Fred Chernoff11. Philosophy and the Practice of Bayesian Statistics in the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi12. Sciences of Historical Tokens and Theoretical Types: History and the Social Sciences, Aviezer Tucker13. RCTs, Evidence and Predicting Policy Effectiveness, Nancy Cartwright14. Bringing Context and Variability Back in to Causal Analysis, Stephen Morgan and Christopher Winship 15. The Potential Value of Computational Models in Social Science Research, Ken Kollman Part III. Norms, Culture and the Social-Psychological16. Models of Culture, Mark Risjord17. Norms, David Henderson 18. The Evolutionary Programme in Social Philosophy, Francesco Guala19. Cultural Evolution: Integration and Scepticism, Tim Lewens20. Coordination and the Foundations of Social Intelligence, Don Ross21. Making Race Out of Nothing: Psychologically Constrained Social Roles, Ron Mallon and Daniel Kelly Part IV. Sociology of Knowledge22. A Feminist Empirical and Integrative Approach in Political Science: Breaking-Down the Glass Wall?, Amy G. Mazur23. Social Constructions of Mental Illness, Allan Horwitz Part V. Normative Connections24. Cooperation and Reciprocity: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications, James Woodward25. Evaluating Social Policy, Daniel M. Hausman26. Values and the Science of Well-being: A Recipe for Mixing, Anna Alexandrova