The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science

Harold Kincaid is Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama-Birmingham. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction: Doing Philosophy of Social Science, Harold Kincaid ; Part 1. Mechanisms, Explanation and Causation ; 2. Micro, Macro, and Mechanisms, Petri Ylikoski ; 3. Mechanisms, Causal Modeling, and the Limitations of Traditional Multiple Regression, Harold Kincaid ; 4. Process Tracing and Causal Mechanisms, David Waldner ; 5. Descriptive-causal Generalizations:"Empirical Laws" in the Social Sciences?, Gary Goertz ; 6. Useful Causal Complexity, David Byrne and Emma Uprichard ; 7. Partial Explanations in Social Science, Robert Northcott ; 8. Counterfactuals, Julian Reiss ; 9. Mechanistic Social Probability: How Individual Choices and Varying Circumstances Produce Stable Social Patterns, Marshall Abrams ; Part II. Evidence ; 10. The Impact of Duhemian Principles on Social Science Testing and Progress, Fred Chernoff ; 11. Philosophy and the Practice of Bayesian Statistics in the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi ; 12. Sciences of Historical Tokens and Theoretical Types: History and the Social Sciences, Aviezer Tucker ; 13. RCTs, Evidence and Predicting Policy Effectiveness, Nancy Cartwright ; 14. 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-Psychological ; 16. Models of Culture, Mark Risjord ; 17. Norms, David Henderson ; 18. The Evolutionary Programme in Social Philosophy, Francesco Guala ; 19. Cultural Evolution: Integration and Scepticism, Tim Lewens ; 20. Coordination and the Foundations of Social Intelligence, Don Ross ; 21. Making Race Out of Nothing: Psychologically Constrained Social Roles, Ron Mallon and Daniel Kelly ; Part IV. Sociology of Knowledge ; 22. A Feminist Empirical and Integrative Approach in Political Science: Breaking-Down the Glass Wall?, Amy G. Mazur ; 23. Social Constructions of Mental Illness, Allan Horwitz ; Part V. Normative Connections ; 24. Cooperation and Reciprocity: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications, James Woodward ; 25. Evaluating Social Policy, Daniel M. Hausman ; 26. Values and the Science of Well-being: A Recipe for Mixing, Anna Alexandrova

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