Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
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社会科学的哲学基础
DOI：
10.1017/cbo9780511625442
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1995
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H. Kincaid
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作者：
H. Kincaid
这本1996年出版的书捍卫了社会科学的前景。它认为，在自然科学的各种方法背后，有一个共同的科学合理性核心，社会科学可以而且有时确实做到了。它还认为，好的社会科学必须在一定程度上是关于大规模的社会结构和过程，因此，方法论个人主义是误导。这些论文得到了实际社会研究的详细讨论的支持，包括土地革命理论，组织生态学，抑郁症的社会理论，以及经济学中的供求解释。金凯德教授提供了一个解释和确认在社会科学的一般图片，并讨论了科学合理性，功能解释，最优参数，意义和解释，微观基础在社会解释的地方，新古典经济学的地位，理想化和非实验证据的作用，和其他具体的争议。
This 1996 book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality that the social sciences can and sometimes do achieve. It also argues that good social science must be in part about large-scale social structures and processes and thus that methodological individualism is misguided. These theses are supported by a detailed discussion of actual social research, including theories of agrarian revolution, organizational ecology, social theories of depression, and supply-demand explanations in economics. Professor Kincaid provides a general picture of explanation and confirmation in the social sciences and discusses the nature of scientific rationality, functional explanation, optimality arguments, meaning and interpretation, the place of microfoundations in social explanation, the status of neo-classical economics, the role of idealizations and non-experimental evidence, and other specific controversies.