TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steel, Daniel ed.
AU  -  Guala,  Francesco ed.
TI  - The philosophy of social science reader
SN  - 9780415779692
U1  - 300.1 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social sciences -- Philosophy
KW  - Sociological theory
KW  - Social sciences
N1  - 	Machine generated contents note: pt. I Values and social science --
1. Value-Oriented Bias of Social Inquiry / Ernest Nagel --
2. Looping Effects of Human Kinds / Ian Hacking --
3. Powerlessness and Social Interpretation / Miranda Fricker --
4. Feminism Question in Science: What Does it Mean to "Do Social Science as a Feminist"? / Alison Wylie --
pt. II Causal inference and explanation --
5. Function of General Laws in History / Carl Hempel --
6. Causes, Confirmation, and Explanation / Harold Kincaid --
7. Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences / James Woodward --
8. Social Mechanisms and Causal Inference / Daniel Steel --
9. Similarity of Causal Inference in Experimental and Non-Experimental Studies / Richard Scheines --
pt. III Interpretation --
10. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / Clifford Geertz --
11. Uncovering "Cultural Meaning": Problems and Solutions / Todd Jones --
12. Interpretation Psychologized / Alvin I. Goldman --
13. Psychological Basis of Historical Explanation: Reenactment, Simulation, and the Fusion of Horizons / Karsten R. Stueber --
pt. IV Rationality and choice --
14. Advances in Understanding Rational Behavior / John C. Harsanyi --
15. Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics / Daniel Kahneman --
16. Virtual Reality of Homo Economicus / Philip Pettit --
17. Building Economic Machines: The FCC Auctions / Francesco Guala --
pt. V Methodological individualism --
18. Methodological Individualism Reconsidered / Steven Lukes --
19. Explaining Institutions: A Defence of Reductionism / Martin van Hees --
20. Nonreductive Individualism: Part I-Supervenience and Wild Disjunction / Keith Sawyer --
pt. VI Norms, conventions, and institutions --
21. Coordination and Convention and Common Knowledge / David Lewis --
22. Social Convention Revisited / Margaret Gilbert --
23. What is an Institution? / John R. Searle --
24. Rules we Live By / Cristina Bicchieri --
pt. VII Cultural evolution --
25. Memes: The New Replicators / Richard Dawkins --
26. Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution / Dan Sperber --
27. Bargaining with Neighbors: is Justice Contagious? / Brian Skyrms --
28. Culture Evolves / Robert Boyd
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