A study of the contemporary development of the theoretical aspects of the social sciences with respect to the philosophical nature of the discourse aims at. It focuses the growing mutuality of philosophy and the social sciences regarding the issues of human action, social construction, the fact-value distinction, psychological, sociological and economic conditions of the societal relations.
SUGGESTED READINGS
A History of Social Science Fiction
- Alexander Rosenberg, Philosophy of Social Science, Boulder, Westview Press, 1988
- D. Braybrooke, Philosophy of Social Science, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1987
- Garry Potter, The philosophy of Social Science: New Perspectives, New York, Prentice Hall, 2000.
- H. Brodback (Ed.), Philosophical Problems of the Social Sciences, New York, Macmillan, 1965
- H. Brodback (Ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, New York, Macmillan, 1968
- Martin, M. & McIntyre, L. C. (Eds.), Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1994
- Peter Winch, Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy, London, Routledge, 1990
- Reading in Social by David Luis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1988
- Theodore Schick, Jr, Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism in JOURNAL OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY, 65, Part 1 96-102, 2001
- Yvonne Sherratt, Continental Philosophy of Social Science : Hermeneutics, Genealogy and Critical Theory from Ancient Greece to the Twenty-first Century, New York, Cambridge, 2006
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