New Anthology – help!
September 26, 2008
Dan Steel and I have been asked by Routledge to prepare a proposal for a new Philosophy of Social Science anthology. The goal of the anthology will be two-fold: (1) to update the existing literature (the most popular anthology in the field is still probably Martin & McIntyre’s (MIT Press), dating back to the early 90s); (2) to privilege philosophical reflections on scientific practice (especially new developments in anthropology, cognitive science, economics, etc), as opposed to foundational a priori criticism. How we shall strike a balance between these two goals is not clear yet. We have our own ideas, of course, but it would be very helpful to know what other people think: after all, the purpose of an anthology is to be used by as many people as possible!
If you have taught a PoSS course in the past, would you like to share your syllabus with us? Have you got any suggestions to make – e.g. some wonderful paper that we should definitely include? (or some terribly boring, out-of-date paper we should not include!) If you are a student and have taken a PoSS course recently, which papers did you find most helpful/interesting/clear?
Any suggestion will be very appreciated.
September 26, 2008 at 10:06 am
After two months 5 posts in 3 days! What an “unexpected” blog is this? :)
I am very much excited to read the contributors!
November 27, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I would very much be interested in the philosophy of risk and the idea of risk management.