Philosophical foundations of the social sciences: analyzing controversies in social research
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of figures page xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv
Chapter 1: Issues and arguments 1
1.1 The naturalist and holist traditions and
their detractors 2
1.2 An outline of the argument 9
Chapter 2: Challenges to scientific rationality 16
2.1 Quine and the demise of positivism 17
2.2 Varieties of rationality 27
2.3 Kuhn and shifting standards 30
2.3.1 Incommensurability 30
2.3.2 Theory laden data 33
2.3.3 Ambiguous criteria 35
2.4 Social constructivism and post modernist rhetoric 37
2.5 The subtle invasion of values 43
2.6 The symptoms of good science 47
Chapter 3: Causes, confirmation, and explanation 58
3.1 Some a priori objections 59
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viii Contents
3.2 Confirmation and qualifications 63
3.2.1 How can ceteris paribus laws be confirmed
and how can they explain? 63
3.2.2 Ceteris paribus in practice 70
3.3 Inferring causes from non experimental data 84
3.4 Lawless explanations 90
Chapter 4: Functionalism defended 101
4.1 Functionalism and its critics 103
4.2 What is functionalism? 105
4.3 Confirming functional explanations 114
4.4 Functionalist failures and successes 122
4.4.1 Optimal Eskimos and Hindu Cows 122
4.4.2 Marxist accounts of the state 126
4.4.3 The ecology of organizations 131
4.5 The critics answered 136
Chapter 5: The failures of individualism 142
5.1 The prospects for reduction 145
5.1.1 Requirements for reduction 145
5.1.2 Conceptual arguments for and against
reducibility 149
5.1.3 An empirical case against individualism 153
5.2 Claims about explanation and confirmation 166
5.2.1 Full explanation without reduction? 167
5.2.2 Is individualism the best explanation? 175
5.2.3 Are individualist mechanisms necessary? 179
5.2.4 Individualist evidence and heuristics 182
5.3 A question of ontology? 187
5.4 The truth in individualism 189
Chapter 6: A science of interpretation? 191
6.1 Issues and presuppositions 192
Contents ix
6.2 The right wing attack 194
6.3 Skeptical hermeneuts 205
6.4 Interpretive successes 212
6.5 Norms and symbols 215
Chapter 7: Economics: a test case 222
7.1 How to think about economics 223
7.2 The supply and demand core 232
7.2.1 Confirming the laws of supply and demand 232
7.2.2 The central role of supply and demand
arguments 241
7.3 Assessing neo classical models 247
7.4 Reduction and microfoundations 250
Chapter 8: Problems and prospects 258
References 266
Index 279
FIGURES
1: Paige s four basic agrarian class systems. page 71
2: The political behavior of non cultivators. 72
3: The political behavior of cultivators. 74
4: Agrarian classes and political behavior. 75
5: Paige s correlations. 87
6: Homeostatic model of functional explanations. 107
7: Complex functional models. 121
8: Examples of spurious correlations. 129
9: Hannan and Freeman s hypotheses. 133
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