Philosophy of the Social Sciences – Towards Pragmatism

Acknowledgements.
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Chapter 1. Emile Durkheim′s naturalism.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>An uneasy relationship with positivism.</p>
<p>How to be a proper sociologist.</p>
<p>Application: the study of suicide.</p>
<p>Evaluation.</p>
<p>Further reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Chapter 2. Max Weber′s interpretative method.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Transcending the Methodenstreit.</p>
<p>Ideal types and different types of action.</p>
<p>Application: the Protestant Ethic.</p>
<p>Evaluation.</p>
<p>Further reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Chapter 3. Karl Popper′s falsificationism.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>What science is about.</p>
<p>The controversy with Kuhn.</p>
<p>How to make social science scientific.</p>
<p>The problem with historicism and utopianism.</p>
<p>Methodological individualism.</p>
<p>Evaluation.</p>
<p>Further reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Critical realism.</p>
<p>The realist bandwagon.</p>
<p>Realism, reality and causality.</p>
<p>Creative scientists at work.</p>
<p>Contributions to social theory.</p>
<p>Application: British politics.</p>
<p>Evaluation.</p>
<p>Further reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Critical Theory.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>The Early Frankfurt School.</p>
<p>J&uuml;rgen Habermas.</p>
<p>Further reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Chapter 6. Richard Rorty and Pragmatism.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>American pragmatism and Rorty.</p>
<p>The myth of scientific method.</p>
<p>The new left and the cultural left.</p>
<p>Evaluation.</p>
<p>Further reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Chapter 7. A Pragmatist philosophy of the social sciences.</p>
<p>Outline of a pragmatist view.</p>
<p>Cultural anthropology.</p>
<p>Archaeology.</p>
<p>History and social sciences.</p>
<p>Some concluding remarks.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>References and Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index</p>