Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Valsiner, Jaan (Editor)
Summary:VIII, 305 p. 17 illus., 14 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33099-6
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophy
  • Part I. Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process
  • Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social research
  • Vitenskapsteori-- - what, how and why?
  • Culture or Biology? If this sounds interesting, you might be confused
  • Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-Making
  • Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and Society
  • Part II. Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences
  • Explanation: guidance for social scientists
  • From causality to catalysis in the social sciences
  • How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible
  • Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation
  • Part III. Social normativity in social sciences
  • Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universality
  • The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approach
  • Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry?
  • Part IV. Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarity
  • Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovation
  • How do economists think?
  • Part V.General Conclusion
  • What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science?
  • Index. .