Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

<div>Social sciences between knowledge and ideologies: need for philosophy.-&nbsp;Part I.&nbsp; Social and cognitive roots for reflexivity upon the research process.-&nbsp;Social sciences, what for? On the manifold directions of social research.-&nbsp;Vitenskapsteori--&nbsp; - what, how and why?.-&nbsp;Culture or Biology? If this sounds interesting, you might be confused.-&nbsp;Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-Making.-&nbsp;Towards Reflexivity in Science: Anthropological Reflections on Science and Society.-&nbsp;Part II.&nbsp; Philosophies of explanation in the social sciences.-&nbsp;Explanation: guidance for social scientists.-&nbsp;From causality to catalysis in the social sciences.-&nbsp;How to identify and how to conduct research that is informative and reproducible.-&nbsp;Explaining social phenomena: Emergence and Levels of Explanation.- Part&nbsp;III.&nbsp; Social normativity in social sciences.-&nbsp;Normativity in psychology and the social sciences: Questions of universality.-&nbsp;The crisis in psychological science, and the need for a person-oriented approach.-&nbsp;Open access, a remedy to the crisis in scientific inquiry?.- Part IV.&nbsp; &nbsp;Social processes in particular sciences: challenges to interdisciplinarity.-&nbsp;Fragmented and Critical? Some challenges for a social organization of Norwegian sociology, and implications for innovation.-&nbsp;How do economists think?.-&nbsp;Part V.General Conclusion.-&nbsp;What can social science practitioners learn from philosophies of science?.-&nbsp;Index.&nbsp;</div>