Week 1: What is Philosophy of Social Sciences?
Week 2: Cause, Agent, and Structure
Week 3: Rationalism & Empiricism
Week 4: System, Function, and Game Theory
Week 5: Understanding & Explanation
Week 6: Neutrality, Objectivity, and Relativism
Week 7: Durkheim
Week 8: Weber
Week 9: Hermeneutics
Week 10: Genealogy
Week 11: Critical Theory
Week 12: Critical Realism
Week 13: The Concept of Scientific History
Week 14: Does Political Theory Still Exist?
Week 15: Historical Inevitability
Week 16: The Counter-Enlightenment
Week 17: The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities
Week 18: Final evaluation
Students should pay at least 20hrs/week for this class.
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