Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences
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| Summary: | VIII, 305 p. 17 illus., 14 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| 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. .