Books:
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Rationality and Relativism (edited with Martin Hollis) Oxford: Blackwell, 1982 Concluding chapter: ‘Relativism in its Place’
Articles:
‘Interview‘ in Rios, Diego; Schmidt-Petri, Christoph (eds.) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: 5 Questions. Copenhagen: Automatic Press, 2008.
‘Searle versus Durkheim’ in savas. L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle’s Social Ontology. Dorderecht, Springer, 2007, pp. 191-202
‘Apparently Irrational Beliefs’ in Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord (eds.) Handbook of Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology. Amerstedam: Elsevier, 2007, pp. 591-606
‘Rethinking social criticism : some puzzles,’ History of the Human Sciences, 16, 4, 2003, pp. 85-89
‘Different Cultures, Different Rationalities’, Journal of the History of the Human Sciences, 13, 1. February 2000, pp. 5-18
‘On Comparing the Incomparable: Trade-Offs and Sacrifices’ in Ruth Chang (ed.), Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1997
‘On Trade-Offs between Values’ in F. Farina, F. Hahn and S. Vannucci (eds.), Ethics, Rationality and Economic Behaviour, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996
‘The Essential and the Local’, in Italian in Ossimori`, 2, 1993
“On Trade-Offs between Values”, EUI SPS Working Papers n. 92/24
‘The rationality of norms‘, Arch. Europe Sociology, 1991, XXIII, pp. 142-149.
“Incommensurability in Science and Ethics” (trans. into Italian and published in Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica, Florence, 3, 1990)
“The Use of Ethnocentricity” – (translated into French and published in Singularités: Les Voies d’émergence individuelle. Textes pour E. de Dampierre (1989, Paris, Plon))
“The Contradictory Aims of Action Theory’ in G. Seebass and R. Tuomela (eds.), Social Action (1985, Dordrecht, Reidel)
“Of Gods and Demons: Habermas and Practical Reason” in J.B. Thompson and D. Held (eds.), Habermas: Critical Debates (1982, Macmillan, London)
“Elster on Counterfactuals”, Inquiry, 1980, 23, pp, 145-155
“The Underdetermination of Theory by Data”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LII, 1978, pp. 93-107
“On the Social Determination of Truth” in Horton, R. & Finnegan, R. (eds.): Modes of Thought: essays presented to E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1973, Faber, London)
‘Methodological Individualism Reconsidered‘, British Journal of Sociology, 1968, XIX, 2, pp. 119-129.
“Some Problems about Rationality”, Archives européennes de sociologie, 1967, VIII, 2, pp. 247-264. Reprinted in Wilson, B.R. (ed.): Rationality (1970, Blackwell, Oxford)