New Philosophy of Social Science

James Bohman has spent a number of years researching in Frankfurt and has worked with Jurgen Habermas.

'An important and well crafted argument which compels attention.' Network '[a] learned and acute survey of the 'new logic of social science'.' The London Review of Books'The book is a valuable contribution to the development of post-empiricist and post-structuralist social philosophy which will surely attract much detailed attention.' Political Studies

• Preface. Introduction: Post-Empiricism, Indeterminacy, and the Social Sciences.1. The Old Logic of the Social Sciences:.Actions, Reasons and Causes.2. The New Logic of the Social Sciences:.Rules, Rationality and Explanation.3: Interpretation and Indeterminacy.4: The Macro-Micro Relation.5: Criticism and Explanation.Conclusion: Philosophy and the Social Sciences.