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| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Sources and Acknowledgments | |
| Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior? | p. 5 |
| What Would an Adequate Philosophy of Social Science Look Like? | p. 21 |
| The Function of General Laws in History | p. 43 |
| The Theory of Complex Phenomena | p. 55 |
| A Possible Distinction between Traditional Scientific Disciplines and the Study of Human Behavior | p. 71 |
| Psychology as Philosophy | p. 79 |
| General Laws and Explaining Human Behavior | p. 91 |
| Defending Laws in the Social Sciences | p. 111 |
| Complexity and Social Scientific Laws | p. 131 |
| Reflexive Predictions | p. 145 |
| Human Nature and Human History | p. 163 |
| The Rationale of Actions | p. 173 |
| Interpretation and the Sciences of Man | p. 181 |
| Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture | p. 213 |
| Hermeneutics and the Hypothetico-Deductive Method | p. 233 |
| Another Look at the Doctrine of Verstehen | p. 247 |
| Taylor on Interpretation and the Sciences of Man | p. 259 |
| Some Problems about Rationality | p. 285 |
| The Status of Rationality Assumptions in Interpretation and in the Explanation of Action | p. 299 |
| The Nature and Scope of Rational-Choice Explanation | p. 311 |
| The Principle of Charity and the Problem of Irrationality (Translation and the Problem of Irrationality) | p. 323 |
| The Logic of Functional Analysis | p. 349 |
| Function and Cause | p. 377 |
| Functional Explanation: In Marxism | p. 391 |
| Functional Explanation: In Social Science | p. 403 |
| Assessing Functional Explanations in the Social Sciences | p. 415 |
| Social Facts | p. 433 |
| Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences | p. 441 |
| Methodological Individualism Reconsidered | p. 451 |
| Methodological Individualism and Social Explanation | p. 459 |
| Microfoundations of Marxism | p. 479 |
| Reduction, Explanation, and Individualism | p. 497 |
| Social Science and the Mental | p. 515 |
| "Objectivity" in Social Science and Social Policy | p. 535 |
| Neutrality in Political Science | p. 547 |
| The Value-Oriented Bias of Social Inquiry | p. 571 |
| The Philosophical Importance of the Rosenthal Effect | p. 585 |
| Psychology Constructs the Female | p. 597 |
| Reasoning about Ourselves: Feminist Methodology in the Social Sciences | p. 611 |
| A Method for Critical Research | p. 625 |
| The Methodology of Positive Economics | p. 647 |
| If Economics Isn't Science, What Is It? | p. 661 |
| Actions, Reasons, and Causes | p. 675 |
| Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis) | p. 687 |
| Narrative Explanations: The Case of History | p. 701 |
| The Autonomy of Historical Understanding | p. 713 |
| On the Possibility of Lawful Explanation in Archaeology | p. 733 |
| Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Objectivism in Archaeology | p. 747 |
| Bibliography | p. 767 |
| Index | p. 773 |
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