From Serendipities, a special issue on Understanding the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe. Philosophy without borders, naturally: An interview with Harold Kincaid, author of Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research. Tobias Hansson Wahlberg (Lund): Why the Social Sciences are Irreducible. A new theory on how researchers can solve the reproducibility crisis: Do the math. Stephen J. DeCanio (UCSB): What Is It Like to Be a Social Scientist? Some social scientists are tired of asking for permission. The first chapter from Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction by Kosuke Imai.
David Waldner (Virginia): Schrodinger’s Cat and the Dog That Didn’t Bark: Why Quantum Mechanics is (Probably) Irrelevant to the Social Sciences. The introduction to Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science, ed. Babette Babich. Daniel Little on social science and policy. Jeremy Freese (Stanford) and David Peterson (Northwestern): Replication in Social Science. Why Russian officials want to control the social sciences: In authoritarian regimes, the social sciences are the most vulnerable to state interventions.
