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===== **Philosophy of Social Science** =====
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==== Basics ====

<color #ff7f27>[[What is social science]]?</color> \\
[[How is it different from Natural science]]?

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==== Philosophical beginnings ====

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^ Tradition    | [[John Stuart Mill]]          | [[Wilhelm Dilthey]]        |
^ Timeline    | 1840s         | 1890s        |
^ Views    | [[Empiricism]], [[Methodological individualism]], [[Causal explanation]] as dominant methodological commitments | emphasized meaningfulness of human phenomena, proposed method of //[[Verstehen]]// and primacy of lived experience in the interpretation of human affairs                    |
^ Perspectives    | [[Empirical]] and [[Causal]]          | [[Anti-empiricist]] and [[Hermeneutic]]     |
^ Supported by    | [[Political scientists]]          | [[Interpretive]] [[sociologist]] and [[Anthropologists]]     |
^ Liked by    | [[Analytical philosophers]]          | [[Continental philosophers]]     |

//Little, 1995//

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