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Tables of Contents for Philosophies of Social Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
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Preface and acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
12
What is the philosophy of social science?
PART 1 Positivism, its dissolution and the emergence of post-empiricism
13
72
Introduction: a general outline
13
5
The selected texts
18
8
Emile Durkheim
26
5
What is a social fact? (1895)
Otto Neurath
31
4
The scientific world conception (1929)
Carl G. Hempel
35
4
Concept and theory in social science (1952)
Ernst Nagel
39
3
Methodological problems of the social sciences (1961)
Karl Popper
42
5
The problem of induction (1934)
Rudolf Carnap
47
4
Confirmation, testing and meaning (1936)
Talcott Parsons
51
4
Theory and empirical fact (1937)
A.J. Aver
55
2
The characterization of sense-data (1940)
W.V.O. Quine
57
5
Two dogmas of empiricism (1951)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
62
8
Language games and meaning (1953)
Stephen Toulmin
70
2
The evolution of scientific ideas (1961)
Thomas Kuhn
72
6
A role for history (1962)
Imre Lakatos
78
3
Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes (1970)
Paul Feyerabend
81
4
Against method (1975)
PART 2 The interpretative tradition
85
122
Introduction: a general outline
85
3
The selected texts
88
11
Wilhelm Dilthey
99
3
The development of hermeneutics (1900)
Georg Simmel
102
5
On the nature of historical understanding (1918)
How is society possible? (1908)
Max Weber
107
14
`Objectivity' in social science (1904)
Sigmund Freud
121
4
The dream-work (1900)
A philosophy of life (1932)
Ernst Cassirer
125
3
From a critique of abstraction to relationalism (1910)
Karl Mannheim
128
6
Competition as a cultural phenomenon (1929)
Alfred Schutz
134
8
Concept and theory formation in the social sciences (1954)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
142
5
The philosopher and sociology (1960)
Martin Heidegger
147
5
The age of the world picture (1938)
Peter Winch
152
6
Philosophy and science (1958)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
158
6
Hermeneutical understanding (1960)
Jurgen Habermas
164
8
The hermeneutic claim to universality (1973)
Paul Ricoeur
172
10
Towards a critical hermeneutic: hermeneutics and the critique of ideology (1973)
Charles Taylor
182
5
Interpretation and the sciences of man (1971)
Clifford Geertz
187
4
The thick description of culture (1973)
Aaron Cicourel
191
3
Method and measurement (1964)
Harold Garfinkel
194
8
Rational properties of scientific and common-sense activities (1960)
Erving Goffman
202
5
Primary frameworks (1974)
PART 3 The critical tradition
207
70
Introduction: a general outline
207
3
The selected texts
210
8
Max Horkheimer
218
6
Traditional and critical theory (1937)
Herbert Marcuse
224
4
Philosophy and critical theory (1937)
Theodor W. Adorno
228
6
Sociology and empirical research (1969)
Jurgen Habermas
234
12
Knowledge and human interests (1965)
The tasks of a critical theory (1981)
Karl-Otto Apel
246
13
Types of social science in light of human cognitive interests (1977)
Albrecht Wellmer
259
5
Critical theory of society (1969)
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
264
3
The critical argument (1975)
Alvin Gouldner
267
10
Towards a reflexive sociology (1970)
PART 4 Pragmatism, semiotics and transcendental pragmatics
277
44
Introduction: a general outline
277
3
The selected texts
280
6
Charles S. Peirce
286
4
A definition of pragmatic and pragmatism (1902)
John Dewey
290
8
Social inquiry (1938)
Charles Morris
298
11
Foundations of the theory of signs (1938)
Pragmatics and semantics (1946)
C. Wright Mills
309
7
Situated actions and vocabularies of motive (1940)
Karl-Otto Apel
316
5
Transcendental pragmatics (1979)
PART 5 The structuralist controversy: language, discouse and practice
321
44
Introduction: a general outline
321
4
The selected texts
325
5
Claude Levi-Strauss
330
10
Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology (1958)
Language and the analysis of social laws (1951)
Lucien Goldmann
340
2
The human sciences and philosophy (1966)
Michel Foucault
342
12
The order of things (1966)
Power/knowledge (1976)
Jacques Derrida
354
5
Structure, sign and play in the discourses of the human sciences (1966)
Pierre Bourdieu
359
6
The logic of practice (1980)
PART 6 New directions and challenges
365
103
Introduction: a general outline
365
12
The selected texts
377
7
Richard J. Bernstein
384
4
`Anti-foundationalism' (1991)
Pierre Bourdieu
388
12
Radical doubt (1992)
On science and politics (1999)
Anthony Giddens
400
5
Social science as a double hermeneutic (1984)
Dorothy Smith
405
5
The standpoint of women in the everyday world (1987)
Donna Haraway
410
6
Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective (1988)
Patricia Hill Collins
416
3
The sociological significance of black feminist thought (1986)
Karin Knorr-Cetina
419
2
Strong constructivism (1993)
Ian Hacking
421
7
What is social construction? The teenage pregnancy example (2002)
Steve Fuller
428
8
The project of social epistemology and the elusive problem of knowledge in contemporary society (2002)
Niklas Luhmann
436
6
The cognitive program of constructivism and a reality that remains unknown (1990)
Roy Bhaskar
442
6
Transcendental realism and the problem of naturalism (1979)
Jon Elster
448
8
Rational choice and the explanation of social action (2001)
Randall Collins
456
4
Sociological realism (1998)
Jurgen Habermas
460
8
Realism after the linguistic-pragmatic turn (1999)
Further reading
468
7
Index
475