This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work.
· Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology
· Historical discussion of important debates
· Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology
· Distinguished contributors from a variety of fields
· Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology
· Historical discussion of important debates
· Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology
· Distinguished contributors from a variety of fields
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I. Sociology and Quantification |
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Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945 |
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The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory |
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Causal Models in the Social Sciences |
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II. Individualism and Holism |
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Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science |
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Evolutionary Explanations |
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249 | (62) |
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311 | (32) |
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343 | (30) |
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373 | (26) |
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III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation |
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Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences |
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429 | (30) |
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Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches |
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459 | (26) |
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The Origins of Ethnomethodology |
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Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in Archaeology |
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517 | (36) |
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IV. Rationality and Normativity |
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Relativism and Historicism |
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The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs |
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607 | (32) |
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639 | (44) |
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683 | (28) |
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We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Social Science |
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Race in the Social Sciences |
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735 | (20) |
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Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science |
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What's `New' in the Sociology of Knowledge? |
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Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.
