Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences
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"This encyclopedia, magnificently edited by Byron Kaldis, will become a valuable source both of reference and inspiration for all those who are interested in the interrelation between philosophy and the many facets of the social sciences. A must read for every student of the humanities."--Wulf Gaertner, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
"Byron Kaldis' Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a triumph. The entries are consistently good, the coverage is amazing, and he has managed to involve the whole scholarly community in this field. It shows off the field very well, and will be a magnificent resource for students and others." -- Stephen Turner, USF, USA “
Like all good works of reference this Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is not to be treated passively: it provides clear and sometimes controversial material for constructive confrontation. It is a rich resource for critical engagement. The Encyclopedia conceived and edited by Byron Kaldis is a work of impressive scope and I am delighted to have it on my bookshelf.”-- David Bloor, Edinburgh, UK
"Byron Kaldis' Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a triumph. The entries are consistently good, the coverage is amazing, and he has managed to involve the whole scholarly community in this field. It shows off the field very well, and will be a magnificent resource for students and others." -- Stephen Turner, USF, USA “
Like all good works of reference this Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is not to be treated passively: it provides clear and sometimes controversial material for constructive confrontation. It is a rich resource for critical engagement. The Encyclopedia conceived and edited by Byron Kaldis is a work of impressive scope and I am delighted to have it on my bookshelf.”-- David Bloor, Edinburgh, UK
"This splendid and possibly unique work steers a skilful course between narrower conceptions of philosophy and the social sciences. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers in either or both fields, and to anyone working on the interrelations between them." -- William Outhwaite, Newcastle, UK
"A work of vast scope and widely gathered expertise, the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a splendid resource for anyone interested in the interface between philosophy and the social sciences." --Nicholas Rescher, Pittsburgh
This encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences.
The subject of this encyclopedia is purposefully multi- and inter-disciplinary. Knowledge boundaries are both delineated and crossed over. The goal is to convey a clear sense of how philosophy looks at the social sciences and to mark out a detailed picture of how the two are interrelated: interwoven at certain times but also differentiated and contrasted at others. The Entries cover topics of central significance but also those that are both controversial and on the cutting-edge, underlining the unique mark of this Encyclopedia: the interrelationship between philosophy and the social sciences, especially as it is found in fresh ideas and unprecedented hybrid disciplinary areas.
The Encyclopedia serves a further dual purpose: it contributes to the renewal of the philosophy of the social sciences and helps to promote novel modes of thinking about some of its classic problems.
“The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences edited by Byron Kaldis, provides a unique, needed, and invaluable resource for researchers at every level. Unique because nothing else offers the breadth of coverage found in this work; needed because it permits researchers to find longer but also relatively brief, clear, but nonetheless expert articles introducing important topics; and invaluable because of the guidance offered to both related topics and further study. It should be the place that any interested person looks first when seeking to learn about philosophy and the social sciences.” Paul Roth, UC Santa Cruz, USA
“The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences edited by Byron Kaldis covers an enormous range of topics in philosophy and the social sciences and the entries are compact overviews of the essential issues” Harold Kincaid, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Contents
A Priori and A Posteriori
A Priori and A Posteriori
Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
Action, Philosophical Theory of
Action, Philosophical Theory of
Actor Network Theory
Actor Network Theory
Affective Intelligence in the Social Sciences
Affective Intelligence in the Social Sciences
Agency
Agency
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation in the Social Sciences
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation in the Social Sciences
Agnotology, Ignorance, and Uncertainty
Agnotology, Ignorance, and Uncertainty
Alienation
Alienation
Allais Paradox
Allais Paradox
Analytical Marxism
Analytical Marxism
Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms
Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Androcentrism and the Philosophy of Science
Androcentrism and the Philosophy of Science
Annales School
Annales School
Argumentation
Argumentation
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Austrian Economics
Austrian Economics
Bargaining Theory
Bargaining Theory
Bayesianism, Recent Uses of
Bayesianism, Recent Uses of
Behavioralism in Political Science
Behavioralism in Political Science
Behaviorism, Philosophical Conception of
Behaviorism, Philosophical Conception of
Behaviorism in Psychological Explanation
Behaviorism in Psychological Explanation
Being-in-the-World
Being-in-the-World
Biology and the Social Sciences
Biology and the Social Sciences
Capabilities
Capabilities
Capitalism
Capitalism
Causal Explanation, in Philosophy of Science
Causal Explanation, in Philosophy of Science
Causation, Philosophical Views of
Causation, Philosophical Views of
Causation in the Social Sciences
Causation in the Social Sciences
Causes Versus Reasons in Action Explanation
Causes Versus Reasons in Action Explanation
Chicago School (Economics)
Chicago School (Economics)
Classical Computationalism, Connectionism, and Computational Neuroscience
Classical Computationalism, Connectionism, and Computational Neuroscience
Coalition Logic
Coalition Logic
Cognitive Anthropology and Mental Architecture
Cognitive Anthropology and Mental Architecture
Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive Phenomenology
Cognitive Phenomenology
Cognitive Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Collective Agents
Collective Agents
Collective Emotions
Collective Emotions
Collective Goals
Collective Goals
Collective Identity and Cultural Trauma
Collective Identity and Cultural Trauma
Collective Intentionality
Collective Intentionality
Collective Memory
Collective Memory
Collective Moral Responsibility
Collective Moral Responsibility
Collective Rationality
Collective Rationality
Collective Values
Collective Values
Commitment
Commitment
Common Goods
Common Goods
Common Knowledge
Common Knowledge
Common Sense (in the Social Sciences)
Common Sense (in the Social Sciences)
Communication Studies
Communication Studies
Communicative Action Theory
Communicative Action Theory
Complex Networks Theory and Social Phenomena
Complex Networks Theory and Social Phenomena
Complexity
Complexity
Complexity and the Social Sciences
Complexity and the Social Sciences
Concepts
Concepts
Consciousness
Consciousness
Contemporary French Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Contemporary French Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Context of Discovery Versus Context of Justification
Context of Discovery Versus Context of Justification
Conventions, Logic of
Conventions, Logic of
Cooperation, Cultural Evolution of
Cooperation, Cultural Evolution of
Cooperation/Coordination
Cooperation/Coordination
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Covering-Law Model
Covering-Law Model
Criminology, Epistemological Critique of
Criminology, Epistemological Critique of
Critical Rationalism
Critical Rationalism
Critical Realism in Economics
Critical Realism in Economics
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Death and Immortality, Philosophical Perspectives
Death and Immortality, Philosophical Perspectives
Death in the Social Sciences
Death in the Social Sciences
Debunking Social Science
Debunking Social Science
Decision Theory
Decision Theory
Deduction
Deduction
Deontic Logic and Agency
Deontic Logic and Agency
Determinism
Determinism
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Dialectic, in the History of Philosophy
Dialectic, in the History of Philosophy
Dialectic, in the Social Sciences
Dialectic, in the Social Sciences
Dialogical Logic
Dialogical Logic
Disagreement
Disagreement
Disciplinarity
Disciplinarity
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Distributed Cognition and Extended-Mind Theory
Distributed Cognition and Extended-Mind Theory
Duhem-Quine Thesis and the Social Sciences
Duhem-Quine Thesis and the Social Sciences
Durkheim's Philosophy of Social Science
Durkheim's Philosophy of Social Science
Econometrics: Methodological Issues
Econometrics: Methodological Issues
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
Ecocnomic Sociology
Ecocnomic Sociology
Economics of Scientific Knowledge
Economics of Scientific Knowledge
Econophysics
Econophysics
Ego
Ego
Embodied Cognition
Embodied Cognition
Emergence
Emergence
Emergence and Social Collectivism
Emergence and Social Collectivism
Emotions
Emotions
Emotions in Economic Behavior
Emotions in Economic Behavior
Empathy
Empathy
Empiricism
Empiricism
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
Enlightenment, Critique of
Enlightenment, Critique of
Epistemic Approaches to Democracy
Epistemic Approaches to Democracy
Epistemology
Epistemology
Epistemology of Mass Collaboration
Epistemology of Mass Collaboration
Equilibrium in Economics and Game Theory
Equilibrium in Economics and Game Theory
Essentialism
Essentialism
Ethical Impact of Genetic Research
Ethical Impact of Genetic Research
Ethno-Epistemology
Ethno-Epistemology
Ethnography, Philosophical aspects of
Ethnography, Philosophical aspects of
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology
Eugenics, Old and Neoliberal Theories of
Eugenics, Old and Neoliberal Theories of
Events
Events
Evidence-Based Policy
Evidence-Based Policy
Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary Game Theory and Sociality
Evolutionary Game Theory and Sociality
Evolutionary Political Science
Evolutionary Political Science
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Existential Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
Existential Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
Existential Psychology
Existential Psychology
Experiment, Philosophy of
Experiment, Philosophy of
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental Philosophy
Experimenting Society, The
Experimenting Society, The
Experiments in Social Science
Experiments in Social Science
Experimants in the Social Sciences: Ethical Issues
Experimants in the Social Sciences: Ethical Issues
Explanation, Theories of
Explanation, Theories of
Explanation Versus Understanding
Explanation Versus Understanding
Falsifiability
Falsifiability
Feedback Mechanisms and Self-Regulatory Processes in the Social Sciences
Feedback Mechanisms and Self-Regulatory Processes in the Social Sciences
Feminism: Schools of Thought
Feminism: Schools of Thought
Feminist Critiques of Social Science Applications
Feminist Critiques of Social Science Applications
Feminist Economics
Feminist Economics
Feminist Epistemology
Feminist Epistemology
Feyerabend, Critique of Rationality in Science
Feyerabend, Critique of Rationality in Science
Folk Psychology
Folk Psychology
Formal Epistemology
Formal Epistemology
Foucault’s Thought
Foucault’s Thought
Frankfurt School and Critical Social Theory
Frankfurt School and Critical Social Theory
Free Will, Philosophical Conceptions of
Free Will, Philosophical Conceptions of
Free Will in the Social Sciences
Free Will in the Social Sciences
Game-Theoretic Modeling
Game-Theoretic Modeling
Genealogy
Genealogy
Genetic Indeterminism of Social Action
Genetic Indeterminism of Social Action
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Given, Myth of the
Given, Myth of the
Goal-Directedness
Goal-Directedness
Governmentality and Regime
Governmentality and Regime
Grounded Cognition and Social Interaction
Grounded Cognition and Social Interaction
Group Beliefs
Group Beliefs
Group Identity
Group Identity
Group Mind
Group Mind
Habitus
Habitus
Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”
Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”
Hegelianism and Contemporary Epistemology
Hegelianism and Contemporary Epistemology
Herder's Philosophy of History
Herder's Philosophy of History
Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Meaning
Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Meaning
Heterodox Economics
Heterodox Economics
Historicism
Historicism
Hobbes's Philsophical Method: Nature-Man-Society
Hobbes's Philsophical Method: Nature-Man-Society
Holism, in the Philosophy of Language
Holism, in the Philosophy of Language
Holism, in the Social Sciences
Holism, in the Social Sciences
Homo Economicus
Homo Economicus
Human Geography, Social Science of
Human Geography, Social Science of
Human Cultural Niche Construction and the Social Sciences
Human Cultural Niche Construction and the Social Sciences
Human-Machine Interaction
Human-Machine Interaction
Hypothetico-Deductivism
Hypothetico-Deductivism
Idealism
Idealism
Idealization in Social-Scientific Theories
Idealization in Social-Scientific Theories
Identity, Personal (Philosophy of)
Identity, Personal (Philosophy of)
Identity, Social
Identity, Social
Ideology
Ideology
Implicit Bias and Social Cognition
Implicit Bias and Social Cognition
Individualism, Methodological
Individualism, Methodological
Induction and Confirmation
Induction and Confirmation
Inferentialism
Inferentialism
Information Ethics
Information Ethics
Information Society
Information Society
Institutional Economics
Institutional Economics
Institutionalism and Institutional Theory
Institutionalism and Institutional Theory
Institutions as Moral Persons
Institutions as Moral Persons
Instrumentalism of Scientific Theories and Constructive Empiricism
Instrumentalism of Scientific Theories and Constructive Empiricism
Intelligence
Intelligence
Intention, Social Psychology of
Intention, Social Psychology of
Intentionality
Intentionality
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
International Relations, Philosophical and Methodological Debates
International Relations, Philosophical and Methodological Debates
Intersubjectivity
Intersubjectivity
Introspection (Philosophical Psychology)
Introspection (Philosophical Psychology)
Invisible Hand Explanations
Invisible Hand Explanations
Joint Attention and Social Cognition
Joint Attention and Social Cognition
Judgment Aggregation and the Discursive Dilemma
Judgment Aggregation and the Discursive Dilemma
Kinds: Natural Kinds Versus Human Kinds
Kinds: Natural Kinds Versus Human Kinds
Knowing-How Versus Knowing-That
Knowing-How Versus Knowing-That
Knowledge Society
Knowledge Society
Kuhn and Social Science
Kuhn and Social Science
Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Incommensurability
Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Incommensurability
Lakatos, Methodology of Scientific Research Programs
Lakatos, Methodology of Scientific Research Programs
Language, the Philosophy of
Language, the Philosophy of
Language and Society
Language and Society
Language-Games and Forms of Life
Language-Games and Forms of Life
Law, Social Phenomenon of
Law, Social Phenomenon of
Laws of Nature
Laws of Nature
Laws Versus Teleology
Laws Versus Teleology
Legal Epistemology
Legal Epistemology
Libertarianism, Metaphysical
Libertarianism, Metaphysical
Libertarianism, Political
Libertarianism, Political
Life-World
Life-World
Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Love, in Social Theory
Love, in Social Theory
Love, Philosophy of
Love, Philosophy of
Luhmann’s Social Theory
Luhmann’s Social Theory
Lying
Lying
Machiavelli's Art of Politics
Machiavelli's Art of Politics
Machine Consciousness and Autonomous Agents
Machine Consciousness and Autonomous Agents
Markets and Economic Theory
Markets and Economic Theory
Marxism and Social/Historical Explanation
Marxism and Social/Historical Explanation
Marxist Economics
Marxist Economics
Marxist Ethics
Marxist Ethics
Mathematical Models, Use in the Social Sciences
Mathematical Models, Use in the Social Sciences
Mechanism and Mechanical Explanation
Mechanism and Mechanical Explanation
Mereology: Parts and Wholes
Mereology: Parts and Wholes
Metacognition and Agency
Metacognition and Agency
Metaphor
Metaphor
Metaphysics and Science
Metaphysics and Science
Methodenstreit
Methodenstreit
Microfoundationalism
Microfoundationalism
Mill and the Moral Sciences
Mill and the Moral Sciences
Mind-Body Relation
Mind-Body Relation
Mirror Neurons and Motor Cognition in Action Explanation
Mirror Neurons and Motor Cognition in Action Explanation
Modal Logic and Intentional Agency
Modal Logic and Intentional Agency
Models in Science
Models in Science
Models in Social Science
Models in Social Science
Modernity
Modernity
Modularity of the Mind
Modularity of the Mind
Money
Money
Montesquieu and the Rise of Social Science
Montesquieu and the Rise of Social Science
Moral Cognitivism
Moral Cognitivism
Multi-Agent Modelling
Multi-Agent Modelling
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism
Mutual Beliefs
Mutual Beliefs
Narrative in Historical Explanation
Narrative in Historical Explanation
Naturalism in Social Science
Naturalism in Social Science
Naturalized Epistemology
Naturalized Epistemology
Naturwissenschaften Versus Geisteswissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften Versus Geisteswissenschaften
Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Marxism
Neo-Marxism
Neural Hermeneutics
Neural Hermeneutics
Neurath's Unity of Science and the Encycopedia Project
Neurath's Unity of Science and the Encycopedia Project
Neuroeconomics
Neuroeconomics
Neuroethics
Neuroethics
Neuroscience and Politics
Neuroscience and Politics
Neo-Wittgensteinians
Neo-Wittgensteinians
Newtonianism in Adam Smith's Social Science
Newtonianism in Adam Smith's Social Science
Nihilism
Nihilism
Nonconceptual Content
Nonconceptual Content
Norbert Elias: Process of Civilization and Theory of Sciences
Norbert Elias: Process of Civilization and Theory of Sciences
Normativism Versus Realism
Normativism Versus Realism
Normativity
Normativity
Objectivity
Objectivity
Observation and Theory-Ladenness
Observation and Theory-Ladenness
Oppression
Oppression
Paradigms of Social Sciences
Paradigms of Social Sciences
Pareto Optimality
Pareto Optimality
Path Dependence
Path Dependence
Performative Theory of Institutions
Performative Theory of Institutions
Personal Identity and Trauma
Personal Identity and Trauma
Pessimistic Induction
Pessimistic Induction
Phenomenological Schools of Psychology
Phenomenological Schools of Psychology
Philosophes, The
Philosophes, The
Philosophical Psychology, History of
Philosophical Psychology, History of
Philosophy of Economics, History of
Philosophy of Economics, History of
Philosophy of Expertise
Philosophy of Expertise
Philosophy of History
Philosophy of History
Philosophy of Politics, History of
Philosophy of Politics, History of
Philosophy of Sociology, History of
Philosophy of Sociology, History of
Plural Subjects
Plural Subjects
Policy Applications of the Social Sciences
Policy Applications of the Social Sciences
Political Psychology
Political Psychology
Popper's Philosophy of Science
Popper's Philosophy of Science
Positivism, History of
Positivism, History of
Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Postindustrial Society
Postindustrial Society
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Power
Power
Pragmatism
Pragmatism
Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
Preference
Preference
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Primatology and Social Science Applications
Primatology and Social Science Applications
Probability
Probability
Promises and Agreements
Promises and Agreements
Prophesy, Self-Fulfilling/Self-Defeating
Prophesy, Self-Fulfilling/Self-Defeating
Pseudosciences
Pseudosciences
Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Issues in
Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Issues in
Public Goods
Public Goods
Public Reason and Justification
Public Reason and Justification
Race, Theories of
Race, Theories of
Racial Critiques of Social Science Applications
Racial Critiques of Social Science Applications
Rational Choice and Political Science
Rational Choice and Political Science
Rational Expectations
Rational Expectations
Rationality and Social Explanation
Rationality and Social Explanation
Realism and Anti-Realism in the Social Sciences
Realism and Anti-Realism in the Social Sciences
Reduction and the Unity of Science
Reduction and the Unity of Science
Reductionism in the Social Sciences
Reductionism in the Social Sciences
Reflective Equilibrium
Reflective Equilibrium
Reflexivity
Reflexivity
Reification
Reification
Relativism and the Social Sciences (From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Peter Winch)
Relativism and the Social Sciences (From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Peter Winch)
Relativism in Scientific Theories
Relativism in Scientific Theories
Relativisms and Their Ontologies
Relativisms and Their Ontologies
Reputation, in Social Science
Reputation, in Social Science
Retrodiction and Epistemology of Future Studies
Retrodiction and Epistemology of Future Studies
Risk
Risk
Rule Following
Rule Following
Scheler's Social Person
Scheler's Social Person
Schizophrenia: Psychoanalytic, Phenomenological, and Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
Schizophrenia: Psychoanalytic, Phenomenological, and Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
Science and Ideology
Science and Ideology
Scientific Method
Scientific Method
Scottish Enlightenment: Influence on the Social Sciences
Scottish Enlightenment: Influence on the Social Sciences
Searle and the Construction of Social Reality
Searle and the Construction of Social Reality
Self and Essential Indexicality
Self and Essential Indexicality
Self and the Social Sciences
Self and the Social Sciences
Self-Determination and Self-Ownership
Self-Determination and Self-Ownership
Self-Knowledge
Self-Knowledge
Semantics and Pragmatics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Sen’s Paretian Liberal
Sen’s Paretian Liberal
Serendipity
Serendipity
Sexuality
Sexuality
Simmel’s Philosophy of Society
Simmel’s Philosophy of Society
Simulation Theory
Simulation Theory
Situated Action
Situated Action
Situated Cognition
Situated Cognition
Situational Analysis
Situational Analysis
Situational Logic
Situational Logic
Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Social Anti-Individualism and the Mental
Social Anti-Individualism and the Mental
Social Capital
Social Capital
Social Choice Theory
Social Choice Theory
Social Cognition
Social Cognition
Social Construction of Reality
Social Construction of Reality
Social Constructivism
Social Constructivism
Social Contract Theories
Social Contract Theories
Social Conventions
Social Conventions
Social Epistemology
Social Epistemology
Social Facts
Social Facts
Social Institutions
Social Institutions
Social Interactions: Individual Decision and Group Formation
Social Interactions: Individual Decision and Group Formation
Social Networks
Social Networks
Social Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Social Norms
Social Norms
Social Objects Versus Technical Objects
Social Objects Versus Technical Objects
Social Ontology, Recent Theories of
Social Ontology, Recent Theories of
Social Perception
Social Perception
Social Practices
Social Practices
Social Rules
Social Rules
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Sociobiology
Sociobiology
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Sociology of Knowledge and Science
Sociology of Knowledge and Science
Solidarity
Solidarity
Space, Philosophical Theories of
Space, Philosophical Theories of
Space, Social Theories of
Space, Social Theories of
Speech Acts
Speech Acts
Spontaneous Order
Spontaneous Order
Straussian Critique of Social Science
Straussian Critique of Social Science
Strong Program in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Strong Program in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Structural Functionalism, in Social Theory
Structural Functionalism, in Social Theory
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Supervenience
Supervenience
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolism
Symbolism
Systems Theory
Systems Theory
Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Team Reasoning
Team Reasoning
Technological Convergence
Technological Convergence
Technoscience and Society
Technoscience and Society
Teleosemantics
Teleosemantics
Theory of Teams
Theory of Teams
Theory Theory
Theory Theory
Therapy, Psychological and Philosophical Issues
Therapy, Psychological and Philosophical Issues
Thought Experiments
Thought Experiments
Time, Philosophical Theories of
Time, Philosophical Theories of
Time, Social Theories of
Time, Social Theories of
Transcendental Arguments
Transcendental Arguments
Transcendental Pragmatics
Transcendental Pragmatics
Transhumanism and Human Enhancement
Transhumanism and Human Enhancement
Trust, Epistemic
Trust, Epistemic
Trust, Social
Trust, Social
Truth, Philosophical Theories of
Truth, Philosophical Theories of
Unconscious
Unconscious
Unconscious Social Behaviour
Unconscious Social Behaviour
Utopianism
Utopianism
Value Neutrality in Science
Value Neutrality in Science
Verificationism
Verificationism
Vico's Scienza Nova
Vico's Scienza Nova
Virtual Environments and Social Interaction
Virtual Environments and Social Interaction
Virtue Epistemology
Virtue Epistemology
Weber and Social Science: Methodological Precepts
Weber and Social Science: Methodological Precepts
Weber’s Verstehende Approach
Weber’s Verstehende Approach
Welfare Economics
Welfare Economics
We-Mode, Tuomela's Theory of
We-Mode, Tuomela's Theory of
World-Systems Analysis
World-Systems Analysis
Description
"This encyclopedia, magnificently edited by Byron Kaldis, will become a valuable source both of reference and inspiration for all those who are interested in the interrelation between philosophy and the many facets of the social sciences. A must read for every student of the humanities."--Wulf Gaertner, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
"Byron Kaldis' Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a triumph. The entries are consistently good, the coverage is amazing, and he has managed to involve the whole scholarly community in this field. It shows off the field very well, and will be a magnificent resource for students and others." -- Stephen Turner, USF, USA “
Like all good works of reference this Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is not to be treated passively: it provides clear and sometimes controversial material for constructive confrontation. It is a rich resource for critical engagement. The Encyclopedia conceived and edited by Byron Kaldis is a work of impressive scope and I am delighted to have it on my bookshelf.”-- David Bloor, Edinburgh, UK
"Byron Kaldis' Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a triumph. The entries are consistently good, the coverage is amazing, and he has managed to involve the whole scholarly community in this field. It shows off the field very well, and will be a magnificent resource for students and others." -- Stephen Turner, USF, USA “
Like all good works of reference this Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is not to be treated passively: it provides clear and sometimes controversial material for constructive confrontation. It is a rich resource for critical engagement. The Encyclopedia conceived and edited by Byron Kaldis is a work of impressive scope and I am delighted to have it on my bookshelf.”-- David Bloor, Edinburgh, UK
"This splendid and possibly unique work steers a skilful course between narrower conceptions of philosophy and the social sciences. It will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers in either or both fields, and to anyone working on the interrelations between them." -- William Outhwaite, Newcastle, UK
"A work of vast scope and widely gathered expertise, the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a splendid resource for anyone interested in the interface between philosophy and the social sciences." --Nicholas Rescher, Pittsburgh
This encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences.
The subject of this encyclopedia is purposefully multi- and inter-disciplinary. Knowledge boundaries are both delineated and crossed over. The goal is to convey a clear sense of how philosophy looks at the social sciences and to mark out a detailed picture of how the two are interrelated: interwoven at certain times but also differentiated and contrasted at others. The Entries cover topics of central significance but also those that are both controversial and on the cutting-edge, underlining the unique mark of this Encyclopedia: the interrelationship between philosophy and the social sciences, especially as it is found in fresh ideas and unprecedented hybrid disciplinary areas.
The Encyclopedia serves a further dual purpose: it contributes to the renewal of the philosophy of the social sciences and helps to promote novel modes of thinking about some of its classic problems.
“The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences edited by Byron Kaldis, provides a unique, needed, and invaluable resource for researchers at every level. Unique because nothing else offers the breadth of coverage found in this work; needed because it permits researchers to find longer but also relatively brief, clear, but nonetheless expert articles introducing important topics; and invaluable because of the guidance offered to both related topics and further study. It should be the place that any interested person looks first when seeking to learn about philosophy and the social sciences.” Paul Roth, UC Santa Cruz, USA
“The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences edited by Byron Kaldis covers an enormous range of topics in philosophy and the social sciences and the entries are compact overviews of the essential issues” Harold Kincaid, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Contents
A Priori and A Posteriori
A Priori and A Posteriori
Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
Action, Philosophical Theory of
Action, Philosophical Theory of
Actor Network Theory
Actor Network Theory
Affective Intelligence in the Social Sciences
Affective Intelligence in the Social Sciences
Agency
Agency
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation in the Social Sciences
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation in the Social Sciences
Agnotology, Ignorance, and Uncertainty
Agnotology, Ignorance, and Uncertainty
Alienation
Alienation
Allais Paradox
Allais Paradox
Analytical Marxism
Analytical Marxism
Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms
Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Androcentrism and the Philosophy of Science
Androcentrism and the Philosophy of Science
Annales School
Annales School
Argumentation
Argumentation
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Austrian Economics
Austrian Economics
Bargaining Theory
Bargaining Theory
Bayesianism, Recent Uses of
Bayesianism, Recent Uses of
Behavioralism in Political Science
Behavioralism in Political Science
Behaviorism, Philosophical Conception of
Behaviorism, Philosophical Conception of
Behaviorism in Psychological Explanation
Behaviorism in Psychological Explanation
Being-in-the-World
Being-in-the-World
Biology and the Social Sciences
Biology and the Social Sciences
Capabilities
Capabilities
Capitalism
Capitalism
Causal Explanation, in Philosophy of Science
Causal Explanation, in Philosophy of Science
Causation, Philosophical Views of
Causation, Philosophical Views of
Causation in the Social Sciences
Causation in the Social Sciences
Causes Versus Reasons in Action Explanation
Causes Versus Reasons in Action Explanation
Chicago School (Economics)
Chicago School (Economics)
Classical Computationalism, Connectionism, and Computational Neuroscience
Classical Computationalism, Connectionism, and Computational Neuroscience
Coalition Logic
Coalition Logic
Cognitive Anthropology and Mental Architecture
Cognitive Anthropology and Mental Architecture
Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive Phenomenology
Cognitive Phenomenology
Cognitive Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Collective Agents
Collective Agents
Collective Emotions
Collective Emotions
Collective Goals
Collective Goals
Collective Identity and Cultural Trauma
Collective Identity and Cultural Trauma
Collective Intentionality
Collective Intentionality
Collective Memory
Collective Memory
Collective Moral Responsibility
Collective Moral Responsibility
Collective Rationality
Collective Rationality
Collective Values
Collective Values
Commitment
Commitment
Common Goods
Common Goods
Common Knowledge
Common Knowledge
Common Sense (in the Social Sciences)
Common Sense (in the Social Sciences)
Communication Studies
Communication Studies
Communicative Action Theory
Communicative Action Theory
Complex Networks Theory and Social Phenomena
Complex Networks Theory and Social Phenomena
Complexity
Complexity
Complexity and the Social Sciences
Complexity and the Social Sciences
Concepts
Concepts
Consciousness
Consciousness
Contemporary French Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Contemporary French Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Context of Discovery Versus Context of Justification
Context of Discovery Versus Context of Justification
Conventions, Logic of
Conventions, Logic of
Cooperation, Cultural Evolution of
Cooperation, Cultural Evolution of
Cooperation/Coordination
Cooperation/Coordination
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Covering-Law Model
Covering-Law Model
Criminology, Epistemological Critique of
Criminology, Epistemological Critique of
Critical Rationalism
Critical Rationalism
Critical Realism in Economics
Critical Realism in Economics
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Evolution
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Death and Immortality, Philosophical Perspectives
Death and Immortality, Philosophical Perspectives
Death in the Social Sciences
Death in the Social Sciences
Debunking Social Science
Debunking Social Science
Decision Theory
Decision Theory
Deduction
Deduction
Deontic Logic and Agency
Deontic Logic and Agency
Determinism
Determinism
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Dialectic, in the History of Philosophy
Dialectic, in the History of Philosophy
Dialectic, in the Social Sciences
Dialectic, in the Social Sciences
Dialogical Logic
Dialogical Logic
Disagreement
Disagreement
Disciplinarity
Disciplinarity
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Distributed Cognition and Extended-Mind Theory
Distributed Cognition and Extended-Mind Theory
Duhem-Quine Thesis and the Social Sciences
Duhem-Quine Thesis and the Social Sciences
Durkheim's Philosophy of Social Science
Durkheim's Philosophy of Social Science
Econometrics: Methodological Issues
Econometrics: Methodological Issues
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
Ecocnomic Sociology
Ecocnomic Sociology
Economics of Scientific Knowledge
Economics of Scientific Knowledge
Econophysics
Econophysics
Ego
Ego
Embodied Cognition
Embodied Cognition
Emergence
Emergence
Emergence and Social Collectivism
Emergence and Social Collectivism
Emotions
Emotions
Emotions in Economic Behavior
Emotions in Economic Behavior
Empathy
Empathy
Empiricism
Empiricism
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
Enlightenment, Critique of
Enlightenment, Critique of
Epistemic Approaches to Democracy
Epistemic Approaches to Democracy
Epistemology
Epistemology
Epistemology of Mass Collaboration
Epistemology of Mass Collaboration
Equilibrium in Economics and Game Theory
Equilibrium in Economics and Game Theory
Essentialism
Essentialism
Ethical Impact of Genetic Research
Ethical Impact of Genetic Research
Ethno-Epistemology
Ethno-Epistemology
Ethnography, Philosophical aspects of
Ethnography, Philosophical aspects of
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology
Eugenics, Old and Neoliberal Theories of
Eugenics, Old and Neoliberal Theories of
Events
Events
Evidence-Based Policy
Evidence-Based Policy
Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary Game Theory and Sociality
Evolutionary Game Theory and Sociality
Evolutionary Political Science
Evolutionary Political Science
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Existential Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
Existential Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
Existential Psychology
Existential Psychology
Experiment, Philosophy of
Experiment, Philosophy of
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental Philosophy
Experimenting Society, The
Experimenting Society, The
Experiments in Social Science
Experiments in Social Science
Experimants in the Social Sciences: Ethical Issues
Experimants in the Social Sciences: Ethical Issues
Explanation, Theories of
Explanation, Theories of
Explanation Versus Understanding
Explanation Versus Understanding
Falsifiability
Falsifiability
Feedback Mechanisms and Self-Regulatory Processes in the Social Sciences
Feedback Mechanisms and Self-Regulatory Processes in the Social Sciences
Feminism: Schools of Thought
Feminism: Schools of Thought
Feminist Critiques of Social Science Applications
Feminist Critiques of Social Science Applications
Feminist Economics
Feminist Economics
Feminist Epistemology
Feminist Epistemology
Feyerabend, Critique of Rationality in Science
Feyerabend, Critique of Rationality in Science
Folk Psychology
Folk Psychology
Formal Epistemology
Formal Epistemology
Foucault’s Thought
Foucault’s Thought
Frankfurt School and Critical Social Theory
Frankfurt School and Critical Social Theory
Free Will, Philosophical Conceptions of
Free Will, Philosophical Conceptions of
Free Will in the Social Sciences
Free Will in the Social Sciences
Game-Theoretic Modeling
Game-Theoretic Modeling
Genealogy
Genealogy
Genetic Indeterminism of Social Action
Genetic Indeterminism of Social Action
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Given, Myth of the
Given, Myth of the
Goal-Directedness
Goal-Directedness
Governmentality and Regime
Governmentality and Regime
Grounded Cognition and Social Interaction
Grounded Cognition and Social Interaction
Group Beliefs
Group Beliefs
Group Identity
Group Identity
Group Mind
Group Mind
Habitus
Habitus
Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”
Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”
Hegelianism and Contemporary Epistemology
Hegelianism and Contemporary Epistemology
Herder's Philosophy of History
Herder's Philosophy of History
Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Meaning
Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Meaning
Heterodox Economics
Heterodox Economics
Historicism
Historicism
Hobbes's Philsophical Method: Nature-Man-Society
Hobbes's Philsophical Method: Nature-Man-Society
Holism, in the Philosophy of Language
Holism, in the Philosophy of Language
Holism, in the Social Sciences
Holism, in the Social Sciences
Homo Economicus
Homo Economicus
Human Geography, Social Science of
Human Geography, Social Science of
Human Cultural Niche Construction and the Social Sciences
Human Cultural Niche Construction and the Social Sciences
Human-Machine Interaction
Human-Machine Interaction
Hypothetico-Deductivism
Hypothetico-Deductivism
Idealism
Idealism
Idealization in Social-Scientific Theories
Idealization in Social-Scientific Theories
Identity, Personal (Philosophy of)
Identity, Personal (Philosophy of)
Identity, Social
Identity, Social
Ideology
Ideology
Implicit Bias and Social Cognition
Implicit Bias and Social Cognition
Individualism, Methodological
Individualism, Methodological
Induction and Confirmation
Induction and Confirmation
Inferentialism
Inferentialism
Information Ethics
Information Ethics
Information Society
Information Society
Institutional Economics
Institutional Economics
Institutionalism and Institutional Theory
Institutionalism and Institutional Theory
Institutions as Moral Persons
Institutions as Moral Persons
Instrumentalism of Scientific Theories and Constructive Empiricism
Instrumentalism of Scientific Theories and Constructive Empiricism
Intelligence
Intelligence
Intention, Social Psychology of
Intention, Social Psychology of
Intentionality
Intentionality
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
International Relations, Philosophical and Methodological Debates
International Relations, Philosophical and Methodological Debates
Intersubjectivity
Intersubjectivity
Introspection (Philosophical Psychology)
Introspection (Philosophical Psychology)
Invisible Hand Explanations
Invisible Hand Explanations
Joint Attention and Social Cognition
Joint Attention and Social Cognition
Judgment Aggregation and the Discursive Dilemma
Judgment Aggregation and the Discursive Dilemma
Kinds: Natural Kinds Versus Human Kinds
Kinds: Natural Kinds Versus Human Kinds
Knowing-How Versus Knowing-That
Knowing-How Versus Knowing-That
Knowledge Society
Knowledge Society
Kuhn and Social Science
Kuhn and Social Science
Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Incommensurability
Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Incommensurability
Lakatos, Methodology of Scientific Research Programs
Lakatos, Methodology of Scientific Research Programs
Language, the Philosophy of
Language, the Philosophy of
Language and Society
Language and Society
Language-Games and Forms of Life
Language-Games and Forms of Life
Law, Social Phenomenon of
Law, Social Phenomenon of
Laws of Nature
Laws of Nature
Laws Versus Teleology
Laws Versus Teleology
Legal Epistemology
Legal Epistemology
Libertarianism, Metaphysical
Libertarianism, Metaphysical
Libertarianism, Political
Libertarianism, Political
Life-World
Life-World
Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
Love, in Social Theory
Love, in Social Theory
Love, Philosophy of
Love, Philosophy of
Luhmann’s Social Theory
Luhmann’s Social Theory
Lying
Lying
Machiavelli's Art of Politics
Machiavelli's Art of Politics
Machine Consciousness and Autonomous Agents
Machine Consciousness and Autonomous Agents
Markets and Economic Theory
Markets and Economic Theory
Marxism and Social/Historical Explanation
Marxism and Social/Historical Explanation
Marxist Economics
Marxist Economics
Marxist Ethics
Marxist Ethics
Mathematical Models, Use in the Social Sciences
Mathematical Models, Use in the Social Sciences
Mechanism and Mechanical Explanation
Mechanism and Mechanical Explanation
Mereology: Parts and Wholes
Mereology: Parts and Wholes
Metacognition and Agency
Metacognition and Agency
Metaphor
Metaphor
Metaphysics and Science
Metaphysics and Science
Methodenstreit
Methodenstreit
Microfoundationalism
Microfoundationalism
Mill and the Moral Sciences
Mill and the Moral Sciences
Mind-Body Relation
Mind-Body Relation
Mirror Neurons and Motor Cognition in Action Explanation
Mirror Neurons and Motor Cognition in Action Explanation
Modal Logic and Intentional Agency
Modal Logic and Intentional Agency
Models in Science
Models in Science
Models in Social Science
Models in Social Science
Modernity
Modernity
Modularity of the Mind
Modularity of the Mind
Money
Money
Montesquieu and the Rise of Social Science
Montesquieu and the Rise of Social Science
Moral Cognitivism
Moral Cognitivism
Multi-Agent Modelling
Multi-Agent Modelling
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism
Mutual Beliefs
Mutual Beliefs
Narrative in Historical Explanation
Narrative in Historical Explanation
Naturalism in Social Science
Naturalism in Social Science
Naturalized Epistemology
Naturalized Epistemology
Naturwissenschaften Versus Geisteswissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften Versus Geisteswissenschaften
Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Marxism
Neo-Marxism
Neural Hermeneutics
Neural Hermeneutics
Neurath's Unity of Science and the Encycopedia Project
Neurath's Unity of Science and the Encycopedia Project
Neuroeconomics
Neuroeconomics
Neuroethics
Neuroethics
Neuroscience and Politics
Neuroscience and Politics
Neo-Wittgensteinians
Neo-Wittgensteinians
Newtonianism in Adam Smith's Social Science
Newtonianism in Adam Smith's Social Science
Nihilism
Nihilism
Nonconceptual Content
Nonconceptual Content
Norbert Elias: Process of Civilization and Theory of Sciences
Norbert Elias: Process of Civilization and Theory of Sciences
Normativism Versus Realism
Normativism Versus Realism
Normativity
Normativity
Objectivity
Objectivity
Observation and Theory-Ladenness
Observation and Theory-Ladenness
Oppression
Oppression
Paradigms of Social Sciences
Paradigms of Social Sciences
Pareto Optimality
Pareto Optimality
Path Dependence
Path Dependence
Performative Theory of Institutions
Performative Theory of Institutions
Personal Identity and Trauma
Personal Identity and Trauma
Pessimistic Induction
Pessimistic Induction
Phenomenological Schools of Psychology
Phenomenological Schools of Psychology
Philosophes, The
Philosophes, The
Philosophical Psychology, History of
Philosophical Psychology, History of
Philosophy of Economics, History of
Philosophy of Economics, History of
Philosophy of Expertise
Philosophy of Expertise
Philosophy of History
Philosophy of History
Philosophy of Politics, History of
Philosophy of Politics, History of
Philosophy of Sociology, History of
Philosophy of Sociology, History of
Plural Subjects
Plural Subjects
Policy Applications of the Social Sciences
Policy Applications of the Social Sciences
Political Psychology
Political Psychology
Popper's Philosophy of Science
Popper's Philosophy of Science
Positivism, History of
Positivism, History of
Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Postindustrial Society
Postindustrial Society
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Power
Power
Pragmatism
Pragmatism
Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
Preference
Preference
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Primatology and Social Science Applications
Primatology and Social Science Applications
Probability
Probability
Promises and Agreements
Promises and Agreements
Prophesy, Self-Fulfilling/Self-Defeating
Prophesy, Self-Fulfilling/Self-Defeating
Pseudosciences
Pseudosciences
Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Issues in
Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Issues in
Public Goods
Public Goods
Public Reason and Justification
Public Reason and Justification
Race, Theories of
Race, Theories of
Racial Critiques of Social Science Applications
Racial Critiques of Social Science Applications
Rational Choice and Political Science
Rational Choice and Political Science
Rational Expectations
Rational Expectations
Rationality and Social Explanation
Rationality and Social Explanation
Realism and Anti-Realism in the Social Sciences
Realism and Anti-Realism in the Social Sciences
Reduction and the Unity of Science
Reduction and the Unity of Science
Reductionism in the Social Sciences
Reductionism in the Social Sciences
Reflective Equilibrium
Reflective Equilibrium
Reflexivity
Reflexivity
Reification
Reification
Relativism and the Social Sciences (From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Peter Winch)
Relativism and the Social Sciences (From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Peter Winch)
Relativism in Scientific Theories
Relativism in Scientific Theories
Relativisms and Their Ontologies
Relativisms and Their Ontologies
Reputation, in Social Science
Reputation, in Social Science
Retrodiction and Epistemology of Future Studies
Retrodiction and Epistemology of Future Studies
Risk
Risk
Rule Following
Rule Following
Scheler's Social Person
Scheler's Social Person
Schizophrenia: Psychoanalytic, Phenomenological, and Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
Schizophrenia: Psychoanalytic, Phenomenological, and Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
Science and Ideology
Science and Ideology
Scientific Method
Scientific Method
Scottish Enlightenment: Influence on the Social Sciences
Scottish Enlightenment: Influence on the Social Sciences
Searle and the Construction of Social Reality
Searle and the Construction of Social Reality
Self and Essential Indexicality
Self and Essential Indexicality
Self and the Social Sciences
Self and the Social Sciences
Self-Determination and Self-Ownership
Self-Determination and Self-Ownership
Self-Knowledge
Self-Knowledge
Semantics and Pragmatics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Sen’s Paretian Liberal
Sen’s Paretian Liberal
Serendipity
Serendipity
Sexuality
Sexuality
Simmel’s Philosophy of Society
Simmel’s Philosophy of Society
Simulation Theory
Simulation Theory
Situated Action
Situated Action
Situated Cognition
Situated Cognition
Situational Analysis
Situational Analysis
Situational Logic
Situational Logic
Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Social Anti-Individualism and the Mental
Social Anti-Individualism and the Mental
Social Capital
Social Capital
Social Choice Theory
Social Choice Theory
Social Cognition
Social Cognition
Social Construction of Reality
Social Construction of Reality
Social Constructivism
Social Constructivism
Social Contract Theories
Social Contract Theories
Social Conventions
Social Conventions
Social Epistemology
Social Epistemology
Social Facts
Social Facts
Social Institutions
Social Institutions
Social Interactions: Individual Decision and Group Formation
Social Interactions: Individual Decision and Group Formation
Social Networks
Social Networks
Social Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Social Norms
Social Norms
Social Objects Versus Technical Objects
Social Objects Versus Technical Objects
Social Ontology, Recent Theories of
Social Ontology, Recent Theories of
Social Perception
Social Perception
Social Practices
Social Practices
Social Rules
Social Rules
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Sociobiology
Sociobiology
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Sociology of Knowledge and Science
Sociology of Knowledge and Science
Solidarity
Solidarity
Space, Philosophical Theories of
Space, Philosophical Theories of
Space, Social Theories of
Space, Social Theories of
Speech Acts
Speech Acts
Spontaneous Order
Spontaneous Order
Straussian Critique of Social Science
Straussian Critique of Social Science
Strong Program in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Strong Program in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Structural Functionalism, in Social Theory
Structural Functionalism, in Social Theory
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Supervenience
Supervenience
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolism
Symbolism
Systems Theory
Systems Theory
Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Team Reasoning
Team Reasoning
Technological Convergence
Technological Convergence
Technoscience and Society
Technoscience and Society
Teleosemantics
Teleosemantics
Theory of Teams
Theory of Teams
Theory Theory
Theory Theory
Therapy, Psychological and Philosophical Issues
Therapy, Psychological and Philosophical Issues
Thought Experiments
Thought Experiments
Time, Philosophical Theories of
Time, Philosophical Theories of
Time, Social Theories of
Time, Social Theories of
Transcendental Arguments
Transcendental Arguments
Transcendental Pragmatics
Transcendental Pragmatics
Transhumanism and Human Enhancement
Transhumanism and Human Enhancement
Trust, Epistemic
Trust, Epistemic
Trust, Social
Trust, Social
Truth, Philosophical Theories of
Truth, Philosophical Theories of
Unconscious
Unconscious
Unconscious Social Behaviour
Unconscious Social Behaviour
Utopianism
Utopianism
Value Neutrality in Science
Value Neutrality in Science
Verificationism
Verificationism
Vico's Scienza Nova
Vico's Scienza Nova
Virtual Environments and Social Interaction
Virtual Environments and Social Interaction
Virtue Epistemology
Virtue Epistemology
Weber and Social Science: Methodological Precepts
Weber and Social Science: Methodological Precepts
Weber’s Verstehende Approach
Weber’s Verstehende Approach
Welfare Economics
Welfare Economics
We-Mode, Tuomela's Theory of
We-Mode, Tuomela's Theory of
World-Systems Analysis
World-Systems Analysis
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Table Of Contents:
- A Priori and A Posteriori
- Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation
- Action, Philosophical Theory of
- Actor Network Theory
- Affective Intelligence in the Social Sciences
- Agency
- Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation in the Social Sciences
- Agnotology, Ignorance, and Uncertainty
- Alienation
- Allais Paradox
- Analytical Marxism
- Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms
- Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
- Androcentrism and the Philosophy of Science
- Annales School
- Argumentation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Austrian Economics
- Bargaining Theory
- Bayesianism, Recent Uses of
- Behavioralism in Political Science
- Behaviorism, Philosophical Conception of
- Behaviorism in Psychological Explanation
- Being-in-the-World
- Biology and the Social Sciences
- Capabilities
- Capitalism
- Causal Explanation, in Philosophy of Science
- Causation, Philosophical Views of
- Causation in the Social Sciences
- Causes Versus Reasons in Action Explanation
- Chicago School (Economics)
- Classical Computationalism, Connectionism, and Computational Neuroscience
- Coalition Logic
- Cognitive Anthropology and Mental Architecture
- Cognitive Archaeology
- Cognitive Phenomenology
- Cognitive Sciences
- Collective Agents
- Collective Emotions
- Collective Goals
- Collective Identity and Cultural Trauma
- Collective Intentionality
- Collective Memory
- Collective Moral Responsibility
- Collective Rationality
- Collective Values
- Commitment
- Common Goods
- Common Knowledge
- Common Sense (in the Social Sciences)
- Communication Studies
- Communicative Action Theory
- Complex Networks Theory and Social Phenomena
- Complexity
- Complexity and the Social Sciences
- Concepts
- Consciousness
- Contemporary French Philosophy and the Social Sciences
- Context of Discovery Versus Context of Justification
- Conventions, Logic of
- Cooperation, Cultural Evolution of
- Cooperation/Coordination
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Covering-Law Model
- Criminology, Epistemological Critique of
- Critical Rationalism
- Critical Realism in Economics
- Cultural Evolution
- Cultural Studies
- Death and Immortality, Philosophical Perspectives
- Death in the Social Sciences
- Debunking Social Science
- Decision Theory
- Deduction
- Deontic Logic and Agency
- Determinism
- Developmental Psychology
- Dialectic, in the History of Philosophy
- Dialectic, in the Social Sciences
- Dialogical Logic
- Disagreement
- Disciplinarity
- Discourse Analysis
- Distributed Cognition and Extended-Mind Theory
- Duhem-Quine Thesis and the Social Sciences
- Durkheim's Philosophy of Social Science
- Econometrics: Methodological Issues
- Economic Anthropology
- Ecocnomic Sociology
- Economics of Scientific Knowledge
- Econophysics
- Ego
- Embodied Cognition
- Emergence
- Emergence and Social Collectivism
- Emotions
- Emotions in Economic Behavior
- Empathy
- Empiricism
- Encyclopedia
- Enlightenment, Critique of
- Epistemic Approaches to Democracy
- Epistemology
- Epistemology of Mass Collaboration
- Equilibrium in Economics and Game Theory
- Essentialism
- Ethical Impact of Genetic Research
- Ethno-Epistemology
- Ethnography, Philosophical aspects of
- Ethnomethodology
- Eugenics, Old and Neoliberal Theories of
- Events
- Evidence-Based Policy
- Evolutionary Ethics
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Sociality
- Evolutionary Political Science
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Existential Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
- Existential Psychology
- Experiment, Philosophy of
- Experimental Philosophy
- Experimenting Society, The
- Experiments in Social Science
- Experimants in the Social Sciences: Ethical Issues
- Explanation, Theories of
- Explanation Versus Understanding
- Falsifiability
- Feedback Mechanisms and Self-Regulatory Processes in the Social Sciences
- Feminism: Schools of Thought
- Feminist Critiques of Social Science Applications
- Feminist Economics
- Feminist Epistemology
- Feyerabend, Critique of Rationality in Science
- Folk Psychology
- Formal Epistemology
- Foucault’s Thought
- Frankfurt School and Critical Social Theory
- Free Will, Philosophical Conceptions of
- Free Will in the Social Sciences
- Game-Theoretic Modeling
- Genealogy
- Genetic Indeterminism of Social Action
- Gestalt Psychology
- Given, Myth of the
- Goal-Directedness
- Governmentality and Regime
- Grounded Cognition and Social Interaction
- Group Beliefs
- Group Identity
- Group Mind
- Habitus
- Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”
- Hegelianism and Contemporary Epistemology
- Herder's Philosophy of History
- Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Meaning
- Heterodox Economics
- Historicism
- Hobbes's Philsophical Method: Nature-Man-Society
- Holism, in the Philosophy of Language
- Holism, in the Social Sciences
- Homo Economicus
- Human Geography, Social Science of
- Human Cultural Niche Construction and the Social Sciences
- Human-Machine Interaction
- Hypothetico-Deductivism
- Idealism
- Idealization in Social-Scientific Theories
- Identity, Personal (Philosophy of)
- Identity, Social
- Ideology
- Implicit Bias and Social Cognition
- Individualism, Methodological
- Induction and Confirmation
- Inferentialism
- Information Ethics
- Information Society
- Institutional Economics
- Institutionalism and Institutional Theory
- Institutions as Moral Persons
- Instrumentalism of Scientific Theories and Constructive Empiricism
- Intelligence
- Intention, Social Psychology of
- Intentionality
- Interdisciplinarity
- International Relations, Philosophical and Methodological Debates
- Intersubjectivity
- Introspection (Philosophical Psychology)
- Invisible Hand Explanations
- Joint Attention and Social Cognition
- Judgment Aggregation and the Discursive Dilemma
- Kinds: Natural Kinds Versus Human Kinds
- Knowing-How Versus Knowing-That
- Knowledge Society
- Kuhn and Social Science
- Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Incommensurability
- Lakatos, Methodology of Scientific Research Programs
- Language, the Philosophy of
- Language and Society
- Language-Games and Forms of Life
- Law, Social Phenomenon of
- Laws of Nature
- Laws Versus Teleology
- Legal Epistemology
- Libertarianism, Metaphysical
- Libertarianism, Political
- Life-World
- Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
- Love, in Social Theory
- Love, Philosophy of
- Luhmann’s Social Theory
- Lying
- Machiavelli's Art of Politics
- Machine Consciousness and Autonomous Agents
- Markets and Economic Theory
- Marxism and Social/Historical Explanation
- Marxist Economics
- Marxist Ethics
- Mathematical Models, Use in the Social Sciences
- Mechanism and Mechanical Explanation
- Mereology: Parts and Wholes
- Metacognition and Agency
- Metaphor
- Metaphysics and Science
- Methodenstreit
- Microfoundationalism
- Mill and the Moral Sciences
- Mind-Body Relation
- Mirror Neurons and Motor Cognition in Action Explanation
- Modal Logic and Intentional Agency
- Models in Science
- Models in Social Science
- Modernity
- Modularity of the Mind
- Money
- Montesquieu and the Rise of Social Science
- Moral Cognitivism
- Multi-Agent Modelling
- Multiculturalism
- Mutual Beliefs
- Narrative in Historical Explanation
- Naturalism in Social Science
- Naturalized Epistemology
- Naturwissenschaften Versus Geisteswissenschaften
- Neo-Kantianism
- Neo-Marxism
- Neural Hermeneutics
- Neurath's Unity of Science and the Encycopedia Project
- Neuroeconomics
- Neuroethics
- Neuroscience and Politics
- Neo-Wittgensteinians
- Newtonianism in Adam Smith's Social Science
- Nihilism
- Nonconceptual Content
- Norbert Elias: Process of Civilization and Theory of Sciences
- Normativism Versus Realism
- Normativity
- Objectivity
- Observation and Theory-Ladenness
- Oppression
- Paradigms of Social Sciences
- Pareto Optimality
- Path Dependence
- Performative Theory of Institutions
- Personal Identity and Trauma
- Pessimistic Induction
- Phenomenological Schools of Psychology
- Philosophes, The
- Philosophical Psychology, History of
- Philosophy of Economics, History of
- Philosophy of Expertise
- Philosophy of History
- Philosophy of Politics, History of
- Philosophy of Sociology, History of
- Plural Subjects
- Policy Applications of the Social Sciences
- Political Psychology
- Popper's Philosophy of Science
- Positivism, History of
- Postcolonial Studies
- Postindustrial Society
- Postmodernism
- Power
- Pragmatism
- Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
- Preference
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Primatology and Social Science Applications
- Probability
- Promises and Agreements
- Prophesy, Self-Fulfilling/Self-Defeating
- Pseudosciences
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Issues in
- Public Goods
- Public Reason and Justification
- Race, Theories of
- Racial Critiques of Social Science Applications
- Rational Choice and Political Science
- Rational Expectations
- Rationality and Social Explanation
- Realism and Anti-Realism in the Social Sciences
- Reduction and the Unity of Science
- Reductionism in the Social Sciences
- Reflective Equilibrium
- Reflexivity
- Reification
- Relativism and the Social Sciences (From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Peter Winch)
- Relativism in Scientific Theories
- Relativisms and Their Ontologies
- Reputation, in Social Science
- Retrodiction and Epistemology of Future Studies
- Risk
- Rule Following
- Scheler's Social Person
- Schizophrenia: Psychoanalytic, Phenomenological, and Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
- Science and Ideology
- Scientific Method
- Scottish Enlightenment: Influence on the Social Sciences
- Searle and the Construction of Social Reality
- Self and Essential Indexicality
- Self and the Social Sciences
- Self-Determination and Self-Ownership
- Self-Knowledge
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Sen’s Paretian Liberal
- Serendipity
- Sexuality
- Simmel’s Philosophy of Society
- Simulation Theory
- Situated Action
- Situated Cognition
- Situational Analysis
- Situational Logic
- Social Anthropology
- Social Anti-Individualism and the Mental
- Social Capital
- Social Choice Theory
- Social Cognition
- Social Construction of Reality
- Social Constructivism
- Social Contract Theories
- Social Conventions
- Social Epistemology
- Social Facts
- Social Institutions
- Social Interactions: Individual Decision and Group Formation
- Social Networks
- Social Neuroscience
- Social Norms
- Social Objects Versus Technical Objects
- Social Ontology, Recent Theories of
- Social Perception
- Social Practices
- Social Rules
- Social Studies of Science and Technology
- Sociobiology
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociology of Knowledge and Science
- Solidarity
- Space, Philosophical Theories of
- Space, Social Theories of
- Speech Acts
- Spontaneous Order
- Straussian Critique of Social Science
- Strong Program in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
- Structural Functionalism, in Social Theory
- Structuralism and Poststructuralism
- Supervenience
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Symbolism
- Systems Theory
- Tacit Knowledge
- Team Reasoning
- Technological Convergence
- Technoscience and Society
- Teleosemantics
- Theory of Teams
- Theory Theory
- Therapy, Psychological and Philosophical Issues
- Thought Experiments
- Time, Philosophical Theories of
- Time, Social Theories of
- Transcendental Arguments
- Transcendental Pragmatics
- Transhumanism and Human Enhancement
- Trust, Epistemic
- Trust, Social
- Truth, Philosophical Theories of
- Unconscious
- Unconscious Social Behaviour
- Utopianism
- Value Neutrality in Science
- Verificationism
- Vico's Scienza Nova
- Virtual Environments and Social Interaction
- Virtue Epistemology
- Weber and Social Science: Methodological Precepts
- Weber’s Verstehende Approach
- Welfare Economics
- We-Mode, Tuomela's Theory of
- World-Systems Analysis
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