Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Valsiner, Jaan (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: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences,
• Subjects: Critical psychology.; Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Philosophy and science.; Critical Psychology.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Philosophy of Science.

This is an international and interdisciplinary volume that provides a new look at general background of the social sciences from a philosophical perspective and provides directions for methodology. It seeks to overcome the limitations of the traditional treatises of a philosophy of science rooted in...

Table of Contents:

• Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophy
• Part I. Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process
• Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social research
• Vitenskapsteori-- - what, how and why?
• Culture or Biology? If this sounds interesting, you might be confused
• Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-Making
• Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and Society
• Part II. Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences
• Explanation: guidance for social scientists
• From causality to catalysis in the social sciences
• How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible
• Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation
• Part III. Social normativity in social sciences
• Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universality
• The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approach
• Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry?
• Part IV. Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarity
• Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovation
• How do economists think?
• Part V.General Conclusion
• What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science?
• Index. .