Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

Chapter 1. Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophyPart I.  Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research processChapter 2. Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social researchChapter 3. Vitenskapsteori--  - what, how and why?Chapter 4.  Culture or Biology? If this sounds interesting, you might be confused.Chapter 5.  Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-MakingChapter 6. Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and SocietyPart II.  Philosophies of explanation in the social sciencesChapter 7. Explanation: guidance for social scientistsChapter 8. From causality to catalysis in the social sciencesChapter 9. How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducibleChapter 10.  Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of ExplanationPart III.  Social normativity in social sciencesChapter 11. Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universalityChapter 12.  The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approachChapter 13.  Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry?Part IV.   Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarityChapter 14. Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovationChapter 15. How do economists think?Part V.General ConclusionChapter 16.  What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science?Index