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Philosophy of science / (Record no. 161634)

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LC control number 2006102224
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International Standard Book Number 9780813343518 (pbk.)
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International Standard Book Number 0813343518 (pbk.)
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Classification number H61
Item number .R668 2008
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 300.1
Edition number 22
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Personal name Rosenberg, Alexander,
Dates associated with a name 1946-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Philosophy of science /
Statement of responsibility, etc Alexander Rosenberg.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 3rd ed.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc Boulder, CO :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Westview Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 272 p. ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-259) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Preface to the third edition -- 1. What is the philosophy of social science? -- Philosophical problems of social science -- Progress and prediction -- A brief history of the philosophy of science -- Lawlessness in social science -- Rejecting prediction for intelligibility -- Taking sides in the philosophy of social science -- Naturalism versus interpretation -- Introduction to the literature -- 2. The explanation of human action -- Making folk psychology explicit -- Reasons and causes -- The holism of the mental -- The logical connection argument -- Intentionality -- Intensionality and extensionality -- Introduction to the literature -- 3. From behaviorism to rational choice, and back -- Causation and purpose -- The experimental analysis of behavior -- The ghost in behaviorism's machine -- Folk psychology formalized: the theory of rational choice -- The economist as behaviorist -- Instrumentalism in economics -- The eclipse of behaviorism in psychology and economics -- Introduction to the literature -- 4. Interpretation -- The hermeneutics of human action -- Can we reconcile rules and causes? -- The social construction of society -- The philosophy of history -- Freud and the analysis of deep meanings -- Marxism and meaning -- Critical theory -- Epistemological impasse? -- Introduction to the literature -- 5. Functionalism and macrosocial science -- Holism and human action -- The autonomy of sociology -- Holism and reductionism in psychology and sociology -- Functional analysis and functional explanation -- The trouble with functionalism -- Introduction to the literature -- 6. Biology, human behavior, and social science -- The prisoner's dilemma to the rescue? -- Farewell to the standard social science model? -- Blunting the threat of genetic determinism -- Natural selection and mother-nurture? -- Causation, statistics, laws and the relevance of biology -- Introduction to the literature -- 7. Shall we commit a social science? -- Moral problems of controlled research -- Naturalism and utilitarianism -- Kant: interpretation and deontology -- Facts and values -- Feminist philosophy of (social) science -- Dangerous questions, moral obligations, and predictive knowledge -- Introduction to the literature -- 8. Social science and the enduring questions of philosophy -- The unavoidability of epistemology -- Science and metaphysics -- Reductionism and instrumentalism -- Philosophy and the moral sciences -- Conclusion.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social sciences
General subdivision Philosophy.
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