The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science

Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He is the author of several books, including Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age (Routledge 2015) and Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (MIT Press, 2006). Alex Rosenberg is an American philosopher and the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Rosenberg has written many books, including The Atheist s Guide to Reality. The Girl from Krakow is his first novel. It is based on the experiences of several individuals through the 1930s and World War II.

Part I. Historical and philosophical context










Comte and the Positivist Vision




Vincent Guillin








Durkheim and the Methods of Scientific Sociology




Warren Schmaus








Verstehen and the Reaction Against Positivism




Brian Fay








The Development of Logical Empiricism




Thomas Uebel








Kuhn’s Influence on the Social Sciences




K. Brad Wray








Popper’s Influence on the Social Sciences




Jeremy Shearmur








Interpretation and Critical Theory




Ken Baynes








The Empirical Counter-Revolution




Jaakko Kuorikoski





Part II. Concepts








Explanation




David Henderson








Reductionism




Harold Kincaid








Emergence




Julie Zahle








Methodological Individualism




Petri Ylikoski








Functionalism




Alex Rosenberg








Naturalism




David Livingstone Smith








Game Theory




Cristina Bicchieri & Giacomo Sillari








Situational Analysis




Kevin D. Hoover








Bias in Social Scientific Experimentation




Sharon Crasnow








Causal Inference and Modeling




Tuukka Kaidesoja








Collective Intentionality




Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic








Microfoundations, Mechanism, and Causal Powers




Dan Little








Social Ontology




Brian Epstein