Concept
Philosophy of social science
Overview
study of the logic, methods, and foundations of social sciences
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Philosophy of social science
- René Girard
- Peter Winch
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Michael Lou Martin
- Roy Bhaskar
- Alexander Rosenberg
- Jon Elster
- Alan Ryan
- Owen Flanagan
- Brian Skyrms
- Jason Josephson Storm
- Cristina Bicchieri
Related ideas
- Alfred Schütz
- Georg Simmel
- Philosophical realism
- Auguste Comte
- Technocracy
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Verstehen
- Antipositivism
- Jürgen Habermas
- Karl Popper
- Karl Marx
- Scientism
- Linguistic turn
- Neopragmatism
- Intersubjectivity
- Max Weber
- Peter Winch
- Richard Rorty
- Progress
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Absolute (philosophy)
- Vienna Circle
- Psychology
- Physics
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Antipositivism
- Objectivity (science)
- Structural functionalism
- Suicide (Durkheim book)
- University of Bordeaux
- Roy Bhaskar
- Agency (sociology)
- Geisteswissenschaft
- The Rules of Sociological Method
- A General View of Positivism
- Course of Positive Philosophy
- Michael Burawoy
- Observer bias
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences (journal)
- Public sociology
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