The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary A Guide to Fabled Threats to, and Defenses of, Naturalistic Social Science

The (Expanded) Social Scientist's Bestiary addresses a number of important theoretical and philosophical issues in the social sciences from the perspective of contemporary philosophy of science. This expanded and revised edition contains four new chapters tackling such contemporary beasts as Popperian rules, narrative research, and various forms of constructivism. The chapters presented in this volume are, as far as possible, self-contained so that each chapter can be consulted without the necessity of having read the others, thus making this volume an invaluable guide for faculty members and graduate students in the whole of the social sciences and related applied fields.

Phillips D. C. is professor of education and philosophy and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Education at Stanford University