Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences
Addis, Mark / Gobet, Fernand / Sozou, Peter D. / Lane, Peter C. R.
This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. It features a range of disciplines including behavioural sciences, computer science, finance, and statistics with an emphasis on philosophy.The first of the three parts examines methods of social scientific discovery. Chapters investigate the nature of causal analysis, philosophical issues around scale development in behavioural scienc...
