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Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Let’s Do HPSS! (Yafeng Shan).- Chapter 2. Auguste Comte and the Origins of Social Science (Michel Bourdeau).- Chapter 3. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Philosophy of the Human Sciences (Eric S. Nelson).- Chapter 4. Georg Simmel on Philosophical Sociology as a Life-Science (Olli Pyyhtinen and Thomas Kemple).- Chapter 5. Émile Durkheim as Negative Foil: The creation of a contested legacy through collective (mis)representation (Paul Carls).- Chapter 6. Max Weber’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Science (Basit Bilal Koshul).- Chapter 7. The Critical Philosophy of Social Science of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism (Thomas Uebel).- Chapter 8. Thomas Kuhn and the Social Sciences (William Outhwaite).- Chapter 9. From Objective Methodology to Situated Research: The Changing Place of the Researcher in French Sociology (Pauline Launay and Cherry Schrecker).- Chapter 10. American Sociology: Between Science and Reform (Stephen Turner).- Chapter 11. Origins of Sociology in Germany (Stephan Moebius).- Chapter 12. Three Methodological Ruptures in the History of Anthropology (Thomas Hylland Eriksen).- Chapter 13. History and Philosophy of Market Design: Mathematical Politics of Resource Allocation (Ivan Boldyrev).- Chapter 14. A History of Methodological Debates in Political Science (Sharon Crasnow).- Chapter 15. Early Theorizing About Mechanisms in the Social Sciences (Petri Ylikoski).- Chapter 16. Dimensions of the Methodological Individualism/Holism Debate (Jeroen Van Bouwel).- Index.

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      Publisher: Springer
      Publication Date: 12/12/2025
      ISBN13: 9783032081667, 978-3032081667
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      Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Let’s Do HPSS! (Yafeng Shan).- Chapter 2. Auguste Comte and the Origins of Social Science (Michel Bourdeau).- Chapter 3. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Philosophy of the Human Sciences (Eric S. Nelson).- Chapter 4. Georg Simmel on Philosophical Sociology as a Life-Science (Olli Pyyhtinen and Thomas Kemple).- Chapter 5. Émile Durkheim as Negative Foil: The creation of a contested legacy through collective (mis)representation (Paul Carls).- Chapter 6. Max Weber’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Science (Basit Bilal Koshul).- Chapter 7. The Critical Philosophy of Social Science of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism (Thomas Uebel).- Chapter 8. Thomas Kuhn and the Social Sciences (William Outhwaite).- Chapter 9. From Objective Methodology to Situated Research: The Changing Place of the Researcher in French Sociology (Pauline Launay and Cherry Schrecker).- Chapter 10. American Sociology: Between Science and Reform (Stephen Turner).- Chapter 11. Origins of Sociology in Germany (Stephan Moebius).- Chapter 12. Three Methodological Ruptures in the History of Anthropology (Thomas Hylland Eriksen).- Chapter 13. History and Philosophy of Market Design: Mathematical Politics of Resource Allocation (Ivan Boldyrev).- Chapter 14. A History of Methodological Debates in Political Science (Sharon Crasnow).- Chapter 15. Early Theorizing About Mechanisms in the Social Sciences (Petri Ylikoski).- Chapter 16. Dimensions of the Methodological Individualism/Holism Debate (Jeroen Van Bouwel).- Index.

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