Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology

by Gabbay; Thagard; Woods; Turner; Risjord

• ISBN13: 9780444515421
• ISBN10: 0444515429
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-07
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work. ? Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology ? Historical discussion of important debates ? Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology ? Distinguished contributors from a variety of fields ? Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology ? Historical discussion of important debates ? Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology ? Distinguished contributors from a variety of fields

Table of Contents

General Preface	v
Dov Gabbay
Paul Thagard
John Woods
Preface	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
I. Sociology and Quantification
Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945	3	(68)
Stephen P. Turner
Measurement	71	(50)
Joel Michell
The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory	121	(36)
Jerald Hage
Causal Models in the Social Sciences	157	(56)
James Woodward
II. Individualism and Holism
Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science	213	(36)
Harold Kincaid
Evolutionary Explanations	249	(62)
Valerie A. Haines
Holism and Supervenience	311	(32)
Julie Zahle
Levels of the Social	343	(30)
Daniel Little
Rational Choice	373	(26)
Alessandro Pizzorno
III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation
Ethnography and Culture	399	(30)
Mark Risjord
Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences	429	(30)
Warren Schmaus
Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches	459	(26)
William Outhwaite
The Origins of Ethnomethodology	485	(32)
Michael Lynch
Philosophy of Archaeology; Philosophy in Archaeology	517	(36)
Alison Wylie
IV. Rationality and Normativity
Relativism and Historicism	553	(38)
Ian Jarvie
The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs	591	(16)
Steven Lukes
Language and Translation	607	(32)
David Henderson
Practice Theory	639	(44)
Joseph Rouse
Naturalism without Fears	683	(28)
Paul Roth
V. Critical Approaches
We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Social Science	711	(24)
James Bohman
Race in the Social Sciences	735	(20)
Michael Root
Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science	755	(36)
Sharon Crasnow
What's `New' in the Sociology of Knowledge?	791	(68)
John Zammito
Index	859