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Introduction: Philosophical Problems in the Social Sciences: Paradigms,methodology and Ontology - Ian C Jarvie PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEPHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE The Philosophy of Social Science from Mandevilleto Mannheim - Joseph Agassi The Philosophy of Social Science in the 20thCentury: Continental Traditions - David Teira The Philosophy of SocialScience in the 20t Century: Analytic Traditions - Paul Roth PART TWO: CENTRALISSUES IN SOCIAL ONTOLOGY Naturalism: The Place of Society in Nature - DonRoss Language and Society - Frank Hindriks Social Minds - Laurence KaufmannRational Agency - Fred D'Agostino Individualism, Collective Agency and theMicro-Macro Relation - Alban Bouvier Rules, Norms and Commitments - FabiennePeter and Kai Spiekermann Systems and Systems Theory - Andrea Pickel TheConcept of Culture as Ontological Paradox - Angel Diaz de Rada Power andSocial Classes - Daniel Little Causality, Causal Models and Social Mechanisms- Daniel Steel PART THREE: A PHILOSOPHER'S GUIDE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE PARADIGMSRational Choice and Its Alternatives - Cedric Paternotte Game Theory -Giacomo Bonanno Networks - Joan de Marti and Yves Zenou Normative Criteria ofSocial Choice - Maurice Salles and Antoinette Baujard Analytical Sociology -Peter Hedstrom and Petri Ylikoski New Institutionalism - ChrysostomosMantzavinos Evolutionary Approaches - Geoffrey Hodgson Functionalism andStructuralism - Anthony King Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Ethnomethodology- Hans-Herbert Koegler Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism - Alex DennisSocial Constructionism, Postmodernism and Deconstructionism - Patrick Baert,Darin Weinberg and Veronique Mottier Theories of Culture and Action - Sun-KiChai Communicative Action and Critical Theory - Martin Morris PART FOUR:METHODOLOGY: ASSESSING AND USING SOCIAL THEORIES Facts, Values andObjectivity - Heather Douglas Local Models versus Global Theories and TheirAssessment - Tarja Knuutila and Jaakko Kuorikoski Empirical Evidence: ItsNature and Sources - Julian Reiss Experiments - Francesco Guala Mathematicsand Statistics in the Social Sciences - Stephan Hartmann and Jan SprengerArtificial Worlds and Simulation - Till Gr ne-Yanoff Explanation in theSocial Sciences - Jeroen van Bouwel and Erik Weber Prediction - Gregor BetzFrom Philosophy and Sociology of Science to Social Epistemology - SteveFuller Expert Judgment - Maria Jimenez and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla SocialTechnology - Anne Beaulieu and Maarten Derksen EPILOGUE: Rationality in theSocial Sciences: Bridging the Gap - Jesus Zamora-Bonilla