Concept information
Preferred term
philosophy of social science
Definition
- The philosophy of social science is a branch of the philosophy of science, an important field of philosophy. The discipline of philosophy is difficult to define precisely. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods; Philosophy of Social Science]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- capabilities
- causes versus reasons in action explanation
- critical rationalism
- discourse analysis
- econometrics: methodological issues
- economic anthropology
- falsifiability
- Foucault's thought
- historicism
- history of positivism
- homo economicus
- institutionalism and institutional theory
- institutions as moral persons
- laws versus teleology
- logical positivism/logical empiricism
- marxism and social/historical explanation
- mechanism and mechanismic explanation
- Methodenstreit
- nihilism
- philosophical issues in psychoanalysis
- plural subjects
- recent uses of Bayesianism
- relativism and the social sciences: from the sapir-whorf hypothesis to peter winch
- rule following
- science and ideology
- self and the social sciences
- social anthropology
- social choice theory
- social constructivism
- social norms
- theories of explanation
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-FB8NW1MP-9
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