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




Realism and Anti-Realism
Kareem Khalifa & Randall Harp




Critical Realism
Justin Cruickshank




Objectivity
Eleonora Montuschi

Part III. Debates




Are There Social Scientific Laws?
Julian Reiss




Behavioral Economics
Conrad Heilmann




Machine Epistemology and Big Data
Greg Wheeler




Evolutionary Psychology
Stephen M. Downes




Cognitive Science
Stephen Turner and David Eck




The Social Construction of Knowledge
Steve Fuller




Feminism in Social Research
Marianne Janack




Race in Social Research
Michael Root

Part IV. Individual Sciences




Philosophy of Economics
Don Ross




Philosophy of History
Paul A. Roth




Philosophy of Psychology
Nico Orlandi & Janette Dinishak




Philosophy of Sociology & Anthropology
Mark Risjord




Why Is There No Philosophy of Political Science?

Bruno Verbeek & Lee McIntyre