Reviews for A history and philosophy of the social sciences

The average rating for A history and philosophy of the social sciences based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-01 00:00:00 Kevin Hill Its a complex book covering a ton of material, though mostly on the social sciences, there are also discussions of the physical sciences and philosophy of science as well. I've already seen lots of convincing arguments against naively applying techniques from the physical sciences to the social sciences, but he does offer one argument I hadn't seen before and now I'll need to watch some Youtube videos to convince myself it is meaningful. He writes that "except for mechanical causation, represented by vectors of forces, causes are not additive. In consequence, the foregoing [multiple regression] 'analysis ' is almost totally meaningless." As he illustrates with a detailed example, causes would have to be additive for multiple regression analysis to apply.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-21 00:00:00 Jake Mcfarlen This is the best, funniest, most cutting analysis of patriarchy that i have ever read. Why had i not heard of it before