Preface 1. Introduction: Doing Philosophy of Social Science, Harold Kincaid Part 1. Mechanisms, Explanation and Causation 2. Micro, Macro, and Mechanisms, Petri Ylikoski 3. Mechanisms, Causal Modeling, and the Limitations of Traditional Multiple Regression, Harold Kincaid 4. Process Tracing and Causal Mechanisms, David Waldner 5. Descriptive-causal Generalizations:"Empirical Laws" in the Social Sciences?, Gary Goertz 6. Useful Causal Complexity, David Byrne and Emma Uprichard 7. Partial Explanations in Social Science, Robert Northcott 8. Counterfactuals, Julian Reiss 9. Mechanistic Social Probability: How Individual Choices and Varying Circumstances Produce Stable Social Patterns, Marshall Abrams Part II. Evidence 10. The Impact of Duhemian Principles on Social Science Testing and Progress, Fred Chernoff 11. Philosophy and the Practice of Bayesian Statistics in the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi 12. Sciences of Historical Tokens and Theoretical Types: History and the Social Sciences, Aviezer Tucker 13. RCTs, Evidence and Predicting Policy Effectiveness, Nancy Cartwright 14. Bringing Context and Variability Back in to Causal Analysis, Stephen Morgan and Christopher Winship 15. The Potential Value of Computational Models in Social Science Research, Ken Kollman Part III. Norms, Culture and the Social-Psychological 16. Models of Culture, Mark Risjord 17. Norms, David Henderson 18. The Evolutionary Programme in Social Philosophy, Francesco Guala 19. Cultural Evolution: Integration and Scepticism, Tim Lewens 20. Coordination and the Foundations of Social Intelligence, Don Ross 21. Making Race Out of Nothing: Psychologically Constrained Social Roles, Ron Mallon and Daniel Kelly Part IV. Sociology of Knowledge 22. A Feminist Empirical and Integrative Approach in Political Science: Breaking-Down the Glass Wall?, Amy G. Mazur 23. Social Constructions of Mental Illness, Allan Horwitz Part V. Normative Connections 24. Cooperation and Reciprocity: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications, James Woodward 25. Evaluating Social Policy, Daniel M. Hausman 26. Values and the Science of Well-being: A Recipe for Mixing, Anna Alexandrova

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Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki.

Selling point: Collects state-of-the art essays on a comprehensive range of topics in the philosophy of social science Selling point: Includes contributions by the leading philosophers of social science