Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

Chapter 1. Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophy Part I. Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process Chapter 2. Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social research Chapter 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-Making Chapter 6. Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and Society Part II. Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences Chapter 7. Explanation: guidance for social scientists Chapter 8. From causality to catalysis in the social sciences Chapter 9. How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible Chapter 10. Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation Part III. Social normativity in social sciences Chapter 11. Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universality Chapter 12. The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approach Chapter 13. Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry? Part IV. Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarity Chapter 14. Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovation Chapter 15. How do economists think? Part V.General Conclusion Chapter 16. What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science? Index