The philosophy of social science reader/ 
Edited by Daniel Steel and Francesco Guala 
 - London :  Routledge,  2011. 
 - xii,442p. :  ill. ;  25cm. 
<br/><br/>	Machine generated contents note: pt. I Values and social science --<br/>1. Value-Oriented Bias of Social Inquiry / Ernest Nagel --<br/>2. Looping Effects of Human Kinds / Ian Hacking --<br/>3. Powerlessness and Social Interpretation / Miranda Fricker --<br/>4. Feminism Question in Science: What Does it Mean to "Do Social Science as a Feminist"? / Alison Wylie --<br/>pt. II Causal inference and explanation --<br/>5. Function of General Laws in History / Carl Hempel --<br/>6. Causes, Confirmation, and Explanation / Harold Kincaid --<br/>7. Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences / James Woodward --<br/>8. Social Mechanisms and Causal Inference / Daniel Steel --<br/>9. Similarity of Causal Inference in Experimental and Non-Experimental Studies / Richard Scheines --<br/>pt. III Interpretation --<br/>10. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / Clifford Geertz --<br/>11. Uncovering "Cultural Meaning": Problems and Solutions / Todd Jones --<br/>12. Interpretation Psychologized / Alvin I. Goldman --<br/>13. Psychological Basis of Historical Explanation: Reenactment, Simulation, and the Fusion of Horizons / Karsten R. Stueber --<br/>pt. IV Rationality and choice --<br/>14. Advances in Understanding Rational Behavior / John C. Harsanyi --<br/>15. Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics / Daniel Kahneman --<br/>16. Virtual Reality of Homo Economicus / Philip Pettit --<br/>17. Building Economic Machines: The FCC Auctions / Francesco Guala --<br/>pt. V Methodological individualism --<br/>18. Methodological Individualism Reconsidered / Steven Lukes --<br/>19. Explaining Institutions: A Defence of Reductionism / Martin van Hees --<br/>20. Nonreductive Individualism: Part I-Supervenience and Wild Disjunction / Keith Sawyer --<br/>pt. VI Norms, conventions, and institutions --<br/>21. Coordination and Convention and Common Knowledge / David Lewis --<br/>22. Social Convention Revisited / Margaret Gilbert --<br/>23. What is an Institution? / John R. Searle --<br/>24. Rules we Live By / Cristina Bicchieri --<br/>pt. VII Cultural evolution --<br/>25. Memes: The New Replicators / Richard Dawkins --<br/>26. Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution / Dan Sperber --<br/>27. Bargaining with Neighbors: is Justice Contagious? / Brian Skyrms --<br/>28. Culture Evolves / Robert Boyd. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415779692 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social sciences -- Philosophy.<br/>Sociological theory <br/>Social sciences.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.1  / STE/T