Philosophy of the Social Sciences

*Forthcoming in Philosophy of the Social Sciences

The recent republication of David Bloor’s ‘Knowledge and Social Imagery’ in a second edition provides an occasion to reappraise this celebrated work which launched the so-called ‘Strong Programme’ in the sociology of scientific knowledge. This work embodies the general outlook and foundational principles in a way which is still characteristic of its descendents. Above all, the recent re-publica...

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Review of The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences

Philosophy Meets the Social Sciences: The Nature of Humanity in the Public Arena

o Using a base of philosophical athropology, this article suggests that an ethical analysis of persuasion must include not just the logic human response, but culture and experience as well. The authors propose potential maxims for ethical behavior in advertising and public relations and applies them to two case studies, political advertising and the Bridgestone/Firestone controversy. Communicat...

Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences

We view Bayesian data analysis--the iterative process of model building, posterior inference, and model checking--as fitting well within an error-statistics or hypothetico-deductive philosophy of science, with posterior inference playing the role of “normal science,” model checking allowing falsification, and model building providing the potential for progress in normal science (for small chang...