Social Scientific Explanations? On Quine's Legacy and Contextual Fallacies

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-150

  Faber, Jan ^a   Scheper, Willem J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Context dependencies; Scientific explanation; Validity criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642581617     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023323621686     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Adèr, H.J. & Mellenberg, G.J. (1999). Research Methodology in the Social, Behavioural and Life Sciences. London: Sage.
2. Campbell, D.T. & Stanley, J.C. (1966). Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Chicago: Rand McNally.
3. Eco, U. (1976). A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
4. Eco, U. (1984). Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. London: MacMillan.
5. Faber, J. & Koppelaar, H. (1994). Chaos theory and social science: a methodological analysis. Quality & Quantity 28: 421-433.
6. Faber, J. & Scheper, W.J. (1997). Interdisciplinary social science: a methodological analysis. Quality & Quantity 31: 37-56.
7. Groot, A.D. de (1969). Methodology: Foundations of Inference and Research in the Behavioral Sciences. The Hague: Mouton.
8. Habermas, J. (1981). Theorie des kommunativen Handelns. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
9. Houweling, H.W. & Siccama, J.G. (1988). Power transitions as a cause of war. Journal of Conflict Resolution 32: 87-102.
10. Kuhn, T.S. (1964). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. Lakatos, I. (1970). Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In: I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave (eds). Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. London: Cambridge University Press.
12. Latour, B. & Woolgar, S. (1979). Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts. Beverly Hills: Sage.
13. Leavitt, F. (1991). Research Methods for Behavioral Scientists. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
14. Lyotard, J.F. (1979). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
15. Middendorp, C.P. (1991). On the conceptualization of theoretical constructs. Quality & Quantity 25: 235-252.
16. Nagel, E. (1961). The Structure of Science. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
17. Neuman, J. von, and Morgenstern, O. (1944). Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
18. 2). The Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Scheper, W.J. & Faber, J. (1995). Do cognitive maps make sense? In: C. Stubbart, J.R. Meindl & J.F. Porac (eds). Advances in Managerial Cognition and Organizational Information Processing. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
20. 2). Probleme und Resultate der Wissenschaftstheorie und Analytischen Philosophie. Berlin: Springer Verlag.