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Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

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Editors:
  1. Jaan Valsiner

    1. Department of Communication and Psychology, Centre of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  • Provides a new look at the philosophy of science
  • Offers an interdisciplinary focus on the traditions of the philosophy of science
  • Provides examples from various fields of social science on why the philosophical underpinnings of the research are relevant for innovations

Part of the book series: Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences (THHSS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. General Introduction: Social Sciences Between Knowledge and Ideologies – Need for Philosophy

    • Jaan Valsiner
    Pages 1-9

  4. Philosophies of Explanation in the Social Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Explanation: Guidance for Social Scientists

      • Raino Malnes
      Pages 113-124

    3. From Causality to Catalysis in the Social Sciences

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 125-146

    4. How to Identify and How to Conduct Research that Is Informative and Reproducible

      • Janis H. Zickfeld, Thomas W. Schubert
      Pages 147-168

    5. Explaining Social Phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation

      • Henrik Skaug Sætra
      Pages 169-185

  5. Social Normativity in Social Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Normativity in Psychology and the Social Sciences: Questions of Universality

      • Svend Brinkmann
      Pages 189-201

    3. The Crisis in Psychological Science and the Need for a Person-Oriented Approach

      • Lars-Gunnar Lundh
      Pages 203-223

    4. Open Access: A Remedy to the Crisis in Scientific Inquiry?

      • Lars Wenaas
      Pages 225-240

  6. Social Processes in Particular Sciences: Challenges to Interdisciplinarity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Fragmented and Critical? The Institutional Infrastructure and Intellectual Ambitions of Norwegian Sociology

      • Gunnar C. Aakvaag
      Pages 243-267

    3. How Do Economists Think?

      • Jo Thori Lind
      Pages 269-281
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About this book

This is an international and interdisciplinary volume that provides a new look at the general background of the social sciences from a philosophical perspective and provides directions for methodology. It seeks to overcome the limitations of the traditional treatises of a philosophy of science rooted in the physical sciences, as well as extend the coverage of basic science to intentional and socially normative features of the social sciences.

The discussions included in this book are divided into four thematic sections:

  • Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process
  • Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences
  • Social normativity in social sciences
  • Social processes in particular sciences

    • Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences will find an interested audience in students of the philosophy of science and social sciences. It is also relevant for researchers and students in the fields of psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, education, and political science.  

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    Editors and Affiliations

    • Department of Communication and Psychology, Centre of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

      Jaan Valsiner

    About the editor

    Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. And Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. He has been Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013-2018 and Professeur invitee at University of Luxembourg (2013-2019).  He has published and edited around 50 books, the most pertinent of which are his monographs The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998),  Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and Ornamented Lives (Charlotte NC: Information Age, 2019).  He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, aswell as Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. 

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