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The Oxford handbook of philosophy of social science / Philosophy of social science edited by Harold Kincaid. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xviii, 657 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Oxford handbooks .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9780190845773

LCCN: 2011036789

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Research.

LC Class. No.: H61 / .O95 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 300.1 KIN