The Philosophy of the Human Sciences

Walking together - a paradigmatic social phenomenon, Margaret Gilbert; rationality and alien cultures, Lawrence H.Simon; ratifiability and the logic of decision, Brian Skyrms; the idea of science, Hilary Putman; paradoxes of rationality, Christina Bicchieri; how do I presuppose thee? let me count the ways - the relation of regularities to rules in social science, David Braybrooke; causes of variability - disentangling nature and nurture, Arthur Fine; probabilism, Richard Foley; singular explanation and the social sciences, David-Hillel Ruben; the methodological and metaphysical peculiarities of the human sciences, Joseph Margolis; "human sciences" or "humanities" - the case of literature, Frederick A.Olafson; social science and the mental, Alan J.Nelson; narrative time - the inherently perspectival structure of the human world, Robert Paul Wolff; Newcombelike problems, Jordan Howard Sobel; soft laws, Terence Horgan and John Tienson; do social structures govern action?, Theodore R.Schatzki; group action and act consequentialism, Richard Fumerton; some social benefits of uncertainty, Gregory S.Kavka; Foucault's genealogical method, Gary Gutting; the contratarian explanation of the State, Jean Hampton; the deductive method, Daniel M.Hausman; Vigotsky and artificial intelligence - what could cognitive psychology possibly be about?, Stephen P.Turner; the disappearance of tradition in Weber, Stephen P.Turner and Regis A.Factor.