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The Blackwell Guide to the
Philosophy of the
Social Sciences
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The Blackwell Guide to the
Philosophy of the
Social Sciences
Edited by
Stephen P. Turner and Paul A. Roth
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
vii
Introduction. Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency,
Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary
Philosophy of Social Science
1
Stephen P. Turner and Paul A. Roth
Part I Pasts
19
1 Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the
Philosophy of Social Science
21
Stephen P. Turner
2 Phenomenology and Social Inquiry: From Consciousness to
Culture and Critique
42
Brian Fay
3 Twentieth-century Philosophy of Social Science in the
Analytic Tradition
64
Thomas Uebel
Part II Programs
89
4 Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants,
Observers, and Critics
91
James Bohman
5 Decision Theory and Degree of Belief
110
Piers Rawling
v
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