Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Addis, Mark (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lane, Peter C. R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sozou, Peter D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gobet, Fernand (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 413
• Subjects: Philosophy and social sciences.; Social sciences.; Computer simulation.; Computers and civilization.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.; Computers and Society.

This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. It features a range of disciplines including behavioural sciences, computer science, finance, and statistics with an emphasis on philosophy. The first of the three parts examines methods of...