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Developments in the Methodology of Social Science

✍ Scribed by Werner Leinfellner (auth.), Werner Leinfellner, Eckehart Kâhler (eds.)


Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1974
Tongue
English
Leaves
442
Series
Theory and Decision Library 6
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Philosophy of Science deals with the problem, 'What is science?' It seems that the answer to this question can only be found if we have an answer to the question, 'How does science function?' Thus, the study of the methodology of social sciences is a prominent factor in any analysis of these sciences. The history of philosophy shows clearly that the answer to the question, 'How does science function?' was the conditio sine qua non of any kind of philosophy of science, epistemology and even of logic. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Russell, to mention a few classical authors, clearly emphasized the primacy of methodology of science for any kind of philosophy of science. One may even state that analyses of the presupΒ­ positions, the foundations, the aims, goals and purposes of science are nothing else than analyses of their general and specific formal, as well as practical and empirical methods. Thus, the whole program of any phiΒ­ losophy of science is dependent on the analysis of the methods of sciences and the establishment of their criteria. If the study of scientific method is the predominant factor in the philosophy of science, then all the other problems will depend on the outcome of such a study. For example, the old question of a possible unity of all social sciences will be brought to a solution by the study of the presuppositions, the methods, as well as of the criteria germane to all social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories; A Reconstruction of their Background Knowledge Including a Model of Statistical Decision Theory....Pages 3-43
Theories and Phenomena....Pages 45-91
Partial Interpretation and Microeconomics....Pages 93-109
The Foundation of Science on Cognitive Mini-Models, with Applications to the German Methodenstreit and the Advent of Econometrics....Pages 111-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Systems of Social Exchange....Pages 149-173
The Concept of Social Structure....Pages 175-215
Societies and Social Decision Functions....Pages 217-253
Honing Occam’s Razor: A General System Theory Perspective on Social Science Methodology....Pages 255-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Toward Fuzzy Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences....Pages 287-308
Evolutionary Laws in the Social Sciences....Pages 309-336
Methodological Analysis of Imprecision in the Assessment of Personal Probabilities....Pages 337-362
The Necessity, Sufficiency and Desirability of Experts as Value Forecasters....Pages 363-379
Rational Choice Models and Self-Fulfilling and Self-Defeating Prophecies....Pages 381-383
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Statistical Probabilities: Single Case Propensities vs. Long-Run Frequencies....Pages 387-397
Variety of Objects as a Parameter for Experimentation: An Extension of Carnap’s Inductive Logic....Pages 399-416
The Strategic Combination Argument....Pages 417-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-445

✦ Subjects


Methodology of the Social Sciences


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