How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the

The culmination of a lifetime spent in a variety of fields - sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and philosophy of science - How Does Social Science

Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that ma

It seems like most of what we read about the academic social sciences in the mainstream media is negative. The field is facing mounting criticism, as canonical

Is social science really a science at all, and if so in what sense? This is the first question that any course on the philosophy of the social sciences must tac