期刊名称：Perspectives : International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：2009-1842
出版年度：2010
卷号：3
出版社：University College Dublin
摘要：Philosophy of the Social Sciences is a collection of essays in which the philosophical issues in the social sciences are examined with particular concern for how practicing social scientists work. The principle novelty of this collection is that the twenty essays form ordered pairs. Each of the ten chapters consists of a pair of essays, the first by a philosopher and the second a reply from a social (or socially minded) scientist. The exception to this is the final chapter where the reply too comes from a philosopher: evidently, the final word must go to the philosophers. The book is divided into three sections; firstly, “The Basic Problems of Sociality” focuses on ontology and agency; secondly, “Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences” focuses on the metaphysics of social science; and thirdly, “How Philosophy and the Social Sciences Can Enrich Each Other”, presents three chapters that discuss co-operation, virtue theory and the hermeneutic circle respectively, instead of having a unifying theme.
