The Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science/
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Philosophy of social science Oxford ; New York:
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: doing philosophy of social science / Harold Kincaid
- Micro, macro, and mechanisms / Petri Ylikoski
- Mechanisms, causal modeling, and the limitations of traditional multiple regression / Harold Kincaid
- Process tracing and causal mechanisms / David Waldner
- Descriptive-causal generalizations : "empirical laws" in the social sciences? / Gary Goertz
- Useful causal complexity / David Byrne and Emma Uprichard
- Partial explanations in social science / Robert Northcott
- Counterfactuals / Julian Reiss
- Mechanistic social probability : how individual choices and varying circumstances produce stable social patterns / Marshall Abrams
- The impact of Duhemian principles on social science testing and progress / Fred Chernoff
- Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences / Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
- Sciences of historical tokens and theoretical types : history and the social sciences / Aviezer Tucker
- RCTs, evidence and predicting policy effectiveness / Nancy Cartwright
- Bringing context and variability back in to causal analysis / Stephen Morgan and Christopher Winship
- The potential value of computational models in social science research / Ken Kollman
- Models of culture / Mark Risjord
- Norms / David Henderson
- The evolutionary programme in social philosophy / Francesco Guala
- Cultural evolution : integration and scepticism / Tim Lewens
- Coordination and the foundations of social intelligence / Don Ross
- Making race out of nothing : psychologically constrained social roles / Ron Mallon & Daniel Kelly Mallon
- A feminist empirical and integrative approach in political science : breaking-down the glass wall? / Amy G. Mazur
- Social constructions of mental illness / Allan Horwitz
- Cooperation and reciprocity : empirical evidence and normative implications / James Woodward
- Evaluating social policy / Daniel M. Hausman
- Values and the science of well-being : a recipe for mixing / Anna Alexandrova.