Philosophy of anthropology and sociology

This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical developm...

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Main Author: Turner, Stephen P.
Other Authors: Risjord, Mark W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier/North-Holland 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed
Series:Handbook of the philosophy of science
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505 0 |a General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods) -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- I. Sociology and Quanitification -- Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945 -- (Stephen Turner) -- Measurement (Joel Michell) -- The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory (Jerald Hage) -- Causal Models in the Social Sciences (James Woodward) -- II Individualism and Holism -- Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science (Harold Kinaid) -- Evolutionary Explanations (Valerie Haines) -- Holism and Supervenience (Julie Zahle) -- Levels of the Social (Daniel Little) -- Rational Choice (Alessandro Pizzorno) -- III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation -- Ethnography and Culture (Mark Risjord) -- Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences (Warren Schmaus) -- Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches (William Outhwaite) -- The Origins of Ethnomethodology (Michael Lynch) -- Philosophy of Archaeology: Philosophy in Archaeology (Alison Wylie) -- IV. Rationality and Normativity -- Relativism and Historicism (Ian Jarvie) -- The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs (Steven Lukes) -- Language and Translation (David Henderson) -- Practice Theory (Joe Rouse) -- Naturalism without Fears (Paul Roth) -- V. Critical Approaches -- We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy and Social Science (James Bohman) -- Race in the Social Sciences (Michael Root) -- Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science (Sharon Crasnow) -- What's "New" in the Sociology of Knowledge? (John Zammito) -- Index 
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