Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science / Edition 1

by Michael Martin, Lee McIntyre

Overview

This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in the discipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarship in the field and could be used as the basis for an entire course. The anthology offers one complete, convenient, and well-chosen selection of readings, plus three specially commissioned articles that encompass the entire range of topics in the field and cover both sides of currently hot debates about explanation, methodological individualism, and the special sciences. The introductions to each section provide a map through the discipline.

Sections cover
Explanation, Prediction, and Laws • Interpretation and Meaning • Rationality • Functional Explanation • Reductionism, Individualism, and Holism • Objectivity and Values • Problems of the Special Sciences • Commissioned articles: Taylor on Interpretation and the Sciences of Man Michael Martin • Microfoundations of Marxism, D. Little • Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Empiricism in Archaeology, A. Wylie

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262631518
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	03/22/1994
Series:	A Bradford Book
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	814
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.38(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.

Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. He is the author of Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior and Post-Truth, both published by the MIT Press.

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Little

This is a substantial and comprehensive collection in the philosophy of social science. It includes many of the classic articles that any course in the philosophy of social science would naturally want to consider, and it offers a rich selection of work published in this field in the last ten years.

Alex Rosenberg

These has been no satisfactory anthology in the philosophy of social science available in the last decade and a half. This anthology will solve the problem.

Owen Flanagan

This book fits an imporant, currently empty, intellectual niche. The papers selected are thematically well-suited, accessible, and of the highest quality.

Endorsement

This is a substantial and comprehensive collection in the philosophy of social science. It includes many of the classic articles that any course in the philosophy of social science would naturally want to consider, and it offers a rich selection of work published in this field in the last ten years.

—Daniel Little, Colgate University

From the Publisher

These has been no satisfactory anthology in the philosophy of social science available in the last decade and a half. This anthology will solve the problem.

—Alex Rosenberg, University of California

This book fits an imporant, currently empty, intellectual niche. The papers selected are thematically well-suited, accessible, and of the highest quality.

—Owen Flanagan, Duke University

This is a substantial and comprehensive collection in the philosophy of social science. It includes many of the classic articles that any course in the philosophy of social science would naturally want to consider, and it offers a rich selection of work published in this field in the last ten years.

—Daniel Little, Colgate University