The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science - The Department ...

Harold Kincaid
Notes
1 Philosophy of the social sciences is a broad area and it is not possible to do justice to
the entire field anymore than a single article could do so for the philosophy of the
natural sciences. This survey is necessarily selective, based on what topics seem to have
received the most attention and no doubt on the interests and knowledge of the author.
Not discussed in any detail are the following topics: issues in the philosophy of history
concerning laws, objectivity, narrative, and the like (Martin, 1989; Roth, 1994); the
fact/value distinction in the social sciences (Root, 1993); issues concerning the indeterminacy
of translation as it relates to debates in the social sciences (Roth, 1987;
Bohman, 1991; Kincaid, 1996); ontology and metaphysics of groups (Ruben, 1985;
Gilbert, 1992); game theory and decision theory (Bicchieri, 1993), and no doubt other
areas as well.
2 See Gordon (1991) for a discussion.
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