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    The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society.Joseph S. Alper, Catherine Ard, Adrienne Asch, Peter Conrad, Jon Beckwith, American Cancer Society Research Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Jon Beckwith, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences Peter Conrad & Lisa N. Geller - 2002
    The rapidly changing field of genetics affects society through advances in health-care and through implications of genetic research. This study addresses the impacts of new genetic discoveries and technologies on different segments of today's society. The book begins with a chapter on genetic complexity, and subsequent chapters discuss moral and ethical questions arising from today's genetics from the perspectives of health care professionals, the media, the general public, special interest groups and commercial interests.
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    The illusion of progress in nursing.Elizabeth A. Herdman R. N. Ba Social Science PhD - 2001 - Nursing Philosophy 2 (1):4–13.
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  3. Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding.[author unknown] - 2012
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    Critical bioethics: Beyond the social science critique of applied ethics.Adam M. Hedgecoe - 2004 - Bioethics 18 (2):120–143.
    ABSTRACT This article attempts to show a way in which social science research can contribute in a meaningful and equitable way to philosophical bioethics. It builds on the social science critique of bioethics present in the work of authors such as Renée Fox, Barry Hoffmaster and Charles Bosk, proposing the characteristics of a critical bioethics that would take social science seriously. The social science critique claims that traditional philosophical bioethics gives a dominant (...)
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    Types of Social Science in the Light of Human Interests of Knowledge.Karl Apel - 1977 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 44.
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    Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life.Andrew Sayer - 2011 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters of convention, with little or nothing to do with the kind of (...)
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    Crossing Boundaries Social Science in the Policy Room.Andrew Webster - 2007 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 32 (4):458-478.
    This article discusses the relationship between a deconstructivist method in science and technology studies and the more recent moves towards a reconstructivist engagement with science and science policy making. Drawing on examples from the author's own research, the article identifies three forms of engagement and their relative utility and limitations. The article argues that these are typical of STS work that seeks direct engagement with science policy making and which could form the basis for a more (...)
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    Hermeneutics and Social Science.Zygmunt Bauman - 1983 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (2):281-282.
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    Agent‐based computational models and generative social science.Joshua M. Epstein - 1999 - Complexity 4 (5):41-60.
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    The hermeneutic dimension of social science and its normative foundation.Karl -Otto Apel - 1992 - Man and World 25 (3-4):247-270.
  11. New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy.James Bohman - 1999 - Human Studies 22 (1):117-123.
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  12. Realism and Social Science.Ted Benton - 1981 - Radical Philosophy 27:13.
  13. Theorizing in sociology and social science: turning to the context of discovery.Richard Swedberg - 2012 - Theory and Society 41 (1):1-40.
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    Brain, Body, and Society: Bioethical Reflections on Socio-Historical Neuroscience and Neuro-Corporeal Social Science.Stephen Lyng - 2009 - American Journal of Bioethics 9 (9):25-26.
    Grant Gillett's (2009) provocative essay exploring the neuroethical implications of a holistic or relational approach to brain science is indicative of some promising interdisciplinary trends withi...
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  15. Semantics and Social Science.Graham Macdonald & Philip Pettit - 1984 - Mind 93 (369):140-144.
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    Knowledge transfer in agent-based computational social science.David Anzola - 2019 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 77:29-38.
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    Towards a tragic social science: Critique, translation, and performance.Sam Han - 2022 - Thesis Eleven 170 (1):9-27.
    Taking ‘the idea of the tragic’ as a point of departure, this article articulates an approach to sociology and social theory from the perspective of a ‘tragic vision’. In arguing for the relevance of ‘tragic thought’ for the analysis of contemporary crises, it suggests that ‘the tragic’ must be understood as a reflection of the long tail of the formation of a particular secular, modern ‘ethico-onto-epistemology’. In making this case, the article provides an ‘interpretive genealogy’ of tragic ethics in (...)
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    New philosophies of social science: realism, hermeneutics, and critical theory.William Outhwaite - 1987 - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education.
    This book argues that a realist analysis of the structures and processes which make up the social world can provide a way out of its present impasse.
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  19. Moral character and social science research.James Montmarquet - 2003 - Philosophy 78 (3):355-368.
    Gilbert Harman and John Doris (among others) have maintained that experimental studies of human behaviour give good grounds for denying the very existence of moral character. This research, according to Harman and Doris, shows human behaviour to be dependent not on character but mainly on one's ‘situation.’ My paper develops a number of criticisms of this view, among them that social science experiments are ill-suited to study character, insofar as they do not estimate the role of character in (...)
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    The introduction of research ethics review procedures at a university in South Africa: review outcomes of a social science research ethics committee.Simeon E. H. Davies - 2020 - Research Ethics 16 (1-2):1-26.
    The research ethics committee is a key element of university administration and has gained increasing importance as a review mechanism for those institutions that wish to conduct responsible...
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    Two Models of Social Science Research Ethics Review.Sean L. M. Jennings - 2010 - Research Ethics 6 (3):86-90.
    Assuming that the purpose of research ethics review is to support the ethical conduct and dissemination of good quality research, a question can be raised concerning whether ethics review of research really improves the practice of researchers. Specifically, we might distinguish the activities that go on as part of the review process from those activities that constitute the data collection phase of the research, and ask under what conditions the former have a positive impact on the latter. Two different models (...)
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    Predicting and explaining with machine learning models: Social science as a touchstone.Oliver Buchholz & Thomas Grote - 2023 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 102 (C):60-69.
    Machine learning (ML) models recently led to major breakthroughs in predictive tasks in the natural sciences. Yet their benefits for the social sciences are less evident, as even high-profile studies on the prediction of life trajectories have shown to be largely unsuccessful – at least when measured in traditional criteria of scientific success. This paper tries to shed light on this remarkable performance gap. Comparing two social science case studies to a paradigm example from the natural sciences, (...)
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    The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.Rollo Handy - 1960 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 21 (2):270-270.
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  24. The Idea of a Social Science.Peter Winch - 1959 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 14 (2):247-248.
     
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    Lamarckianism in American Social Science: 1890-1915.George W. Stocking - 1962 - Journal of the History of Ideas 23 (2):239.
  26. Universal darwinism and evolutionary social science.Richard R. Nelson - 2007 - Biology and Philosophy 22 (1):73-94.
    Save for Anthropologists, few social scientists have been among the participants in the discussions about the appropriate structure of a ‘Universal Darwinism’. Yet evolutionary theorizing about cultural, social, and economic phenomena has a long tradition, going back well before Darwin. And over the past quarter century significant literatures have grown up concerned with the processes of change operating on science, technology, business organization and practice, and economic change more broadly, that are explicitly evolutionary in theoretical orientation. In (...)
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    Semantics and Social Science.Lawrence H. Simon - 1989 - Noûs 23 (5):688-690.
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  28. Realism and social science.William Outhwaite - 1998 - In Margaret Scotford Archer, Critical realism: essential readings. New York: Routledge. pp. 282--96.
     
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    Getting Past Hume in the Philosophy of Social Science.Ruth Groff - 2011 - In Phyllis McKay Illari Federica Russo, Causality in the Sciences. Oxford University Press.
    A realist, powers‐based metaphysics is very much on the table in contemporary metaphysics, and is beginning to take hold in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. On this picture, causality is (roughly) a matter of the powers that things have to effect change(s) in other things. The realist view is at odds with every version of Humeanism, according to all of which causation is not, in the end, about the exercise of powers, but rather, in one way or (...)
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    The Philosophy of Social Science in the Twentieth Century: Analytic Traditions: Reflections on the Rationalitätstreit.Paul Roth - 2011 - In Ian Jarvie Jesus Zamora Bonilla, The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences. SAGE Publications. pp. 103.
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  31. Human Conduct, History, and Social Science in the Works of R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott.David Boucher - 1993 - New Literary History 24:697-717.
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    Justifying deception in social science research.Steve Clarke - 1999 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 16 (2):151–166.
    The use of deceptive techniques is common in social science research. It is argued that the use of such techniques is incompatible with the standard of informed consent, which is widely employed in the ethical evaluation of research involving human subjects. A number of proposals to justify the use of deceptions in social science research are examined, in the face of its apparent incompatibility with the standard of informed consent, and found to be inadequate. An alternative (...)
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    Anti-Naturalism and Structure in Interpretive Social Science.Lisa Wedeen - 2019 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 31 (3):481-488.
    “Interpretive social science” includes a variety of differing epistemological, methodological, and political commitments. It is to the credit of Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely’s Interpretive Social S...
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  34. Davidson and social science.Michael Root - 1986 - In Ernest LePore, Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson. Cambridge: Blackwell. pp. 272--304.
     
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    Modesty can be constructive: Linking theory and evidence in social science.Steven N. Durlauf - 2014 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (1):81-81.
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    Video in Social Science Research: Functions and Forms.Kaye Haw & Mark Hadfield - 2011 - Routledge.
    In this digital age the use of video in social science research has become commonplace. As sophistication has increased along with usability, as spiralling staff costs push out direct observation, the researchers training today are grasping video as a means of coming to terms with the continued pressure to produce accessible research. However, the ‘fit’ of technology with research is far from simple. Ideally placed to offer guidance to developing researchers, this new text draws together the theoretical, methodological (...)
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    (1 other version)David Hume's Contribution to Social Science.Wilson D. Wallis - 1942 - In Francis Palmer Clarke & Milton Charles Nahm, Philosophical Essays: In Honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. London,: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 358-372.
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    Response to Schrag: What are ethics committees for anyway? A defence of social science research ethics review.Sean Jennings - 2012 - Research Ethics 8 (2):87-96.
    Zachary Schrag would like to put the burden of proof for continuation of research ethics review in the Social Sciences on those who advocate for research ethics committees (RECs), and asks that we take the concerns that he raises seriously. I separate his concerns into a principled issue and a number of pragmatic issues. The principled issue concerns the justification for having research ethics committees; the pragmatic issues concern questions such as the effectiveness of review and the expertise of (...)
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    Politics, Pedagogy and the 'Reluctant Student.' Review ofThe Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought by Ted benton and Ian Craib.Garry Potter - 2002 - Journal of Critical Realism 5 (1):79-83.
    This paper revisits the controversy surrounding Bhaskar's ‘spiritualisation’ of critical realism (CR), formally introduced with the publication of From East to West. It describes the principal divisions amongst realists with respect to the five moments of CR theoretical development signified by Bhaskar in terms of his own publications. The article critiques some of his later arguments, such as that for reincarnation; but it also locates and identifies a much earlier error as being consistent with, and fundamental to, the later ideas (...)
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    Protecting the human subjects of social science research--the role of institutional review boards.D. Reynolds - 2000 - Bioethics Forum 16 (4):31.
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    Between urgency and data quality: assessing the FAIRness of data in social science research on the COVID-19 pandemic.Veronika Batzdorfer, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, Laura Young, Alexia Katsanidou, Johannes Breuer & Libby Bishop - 2024 - Research Ethics 20 (4):744-763.
    Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the need for high-quality data and rapid dissemination. Given the importance of behavioural measures and compliance with measures to contain the pandemic, social science research has played a key role in policymaking during this global crisis. This study addresses two key research questions: How FAIR ( findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) (...)
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    Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy.Alexander Rosenberg - 2000 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, the distinguished philosopher of science. The essays cover three broad areas related to Darwinian thought and naturalism: the first deals with the solution of philosophical problems such as reductionism, the second with the development of social theories, and the third with the intersection of evolutionary biology with economics, political philosophy, and public policy. Specific papers deal with naturalistic epistemology, the limits of reductionism, the biological justification of ethics, the so-called 'trolley problem' (...)
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  43. Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science.Teague Paul & Mccartney John - 1999
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    Philosophy's contribution to social science research on education.Martyn Hammersley - 2006 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 40 (2):273–286.
    This article offers a Weberian perspective on philosophy's relationship to social science research in education. Two key areas where it can make an important contribution are discussed: methodology, and the clarification of value principles that necessarily frame inquiries. In relation to both areas, it is claimed that some researchers underestimate philosophy's contribution, while others exaggerate it. Thus, in methodological work, there are those who effectively suppress philosophical issues, producing ‘methodology-as-technique’; at the same time, others generate ‘methodology-as-philosophy’, often denying (...)
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  45. The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy.Peter Winch & R. F. Holland - 1959 - Philosophy 34 (130):278-279.
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  46. A realist social science.Peter Manicas - 1998 - In Margaret Scotford Archer, Critical realism: essential readings. New York: Routledge. pp. 313--38.
     
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    (1 other version)Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction.Babette Babich - 2017 - In Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 1-22.
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  48. Strauss and Social Science.Nasser Behnegar - 2009 - In Steven B. Smith, The Cambridge companion to Leo Strauss. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 215--40.
     
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    Social science, epistemology, and the problem of relativism.Volker Meja & Nico Stehr - 1988 - Social Epistemology 2 (3):263 – 271.
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    Can the Relationship Between Narrative and History be Utilised to Better Understand the Problems within Social Science?Aaron Grinter - 2017 - Cosmos and History 13 (1):222-239.
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