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Material on the Philosophy of (Social) Science

A Synopsis of Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn on the Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions
Frank Pajares’ Chapter-by-chapter Precis of Kuhn’s 1962 Structure book
Malcolm Forster on Kuhn
Eugene Lashchyk’s PhD thesis on Kuhn and Feyerabend
A rather journalistic profile of Thomas Kuhn and his “second thoughts”
Glossary of terms in the Philosophy of Science
Definitions of some philosophical terms used in research
Online Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind
EpistemeLinks.com: Philosophy Resources on the Internet
The Theorists and Critics page
The Web Site for Critical Realism
Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
A Web Site on Radical Constructivism
Lyle Zinda’s Philosophy of Science Lectures at Princeton University
Bill McKelvey and Joel Baum on Campbellian Realism in Organization Science
A Home Page for a Philosophy of Science course (be sure to check out the “Coursework” link at the bottom of the page)
An introductory essay on Reality and our Knowledge of it, by Kristina Macrae
David Harvey on Why do we Think we can do Social Science Research?
David Harvey on What do we Mean by Research?
Alex Yu on why Quantitative Methods are not the same as Positivism
Another Yu paper on the Philosophy of Social Science
Malcolm Forster on Hard Problems in the Philosophy of Science
Richard Rorty’s review of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What?
John Reiff and Judith Kirscht on Inquiry as a Human Process
Some material from Geof Bowker’s & Leigh Star’s book on Classification and its Consequences, including a real audio interview with Bowker
Diane Cantrell on Alternative Paradigms
Yogesh Malhotra on Science, Scientific Method And Evolution Of Scientific Thought
Kirsta Anderson on Social Constructionism and Belief Causation
Howard Sankey on:

Ian Johnston’s essay on Towards an Initial Understanding of Science
Internet for History and Philosophy of Science
Post-Methodology? (from Trinity College Dublin)
Papers from the 1996 Rice University Symposium on History and the Limits of Interpretation
I.A. Kieseppä’s Lectures on:

An online resource on Naturalized Epistemology
An online resource on Social Epistemology
An online resource on Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
An online resource on Evolutionary Epistemology
An online resource on Bayesian Epistemology
An online resource on the Philosophy of Social Science
An online resource on Logical Positivism
An online resource on Coherence Theories of Truth (see links at the book of the page to discussions of other theories of truth)
An online resource on Challenges to Realism
An online resource on Cognitive Relativism
An online resource on Theories of Explanation
Bruce Janz’s list of Continental Philosophy resources
Bruce Janz’s list of Philosophy of Science Resources

See also, especially, my people page.

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