The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

Edited by Stathis Psillos, Martin Curd

This indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science contains fifty-five specially commissioned entries by a...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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Ontology of Sex

By Carrie Hull

Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts....

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Revitalizing Causality

Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

Edited by Ruth Groff

This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers,...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar

Exploring His Unpublished Papers

Edited by Heinz D. Kurz, Luigi Pasinetti, Neri Salvadori

Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy, this volume contains the...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Norbert Elias

Post-Philosophical Sociology

By Richard Kilminster

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge...

Published October 4th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

By Peter Winch

In the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social...

Published September 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Dictionary of Critical Realism

Edited by Mervyn Hartwig

Dictionary of Critical Realism fulfils a vital gap in the literature, Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon,...

Published March 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Conceptual Systems

By Harold I. Brown

New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking. Conceptual Systems explores how these new concepts are entered into our systems along with sufficient continuity...

Published December 18th 2006 by Routledge.

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Auguste Comte

By Mike Gane

Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major...

Published July 6th 2006 by Routledge.

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Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

By Earnest Gellner

This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the...

Published February 28th 2006 by Routledge.

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