This ambitious critical history of the variety of disciplines we group together as the social sciences argues that the defining characteristic of social science

Scott Gordon provides a magisterial review of the historical development of the social sciences from their beginnings in renaissance Italy to the present day.

the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s

This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise

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