Philosophy of Social Science / Rationality

Books:


Rationality and Relativism
(edited with Martin Hollis) Oxford: Blackwell, 1982 Concluding chapter: ‘Relativism in its Place’

Articles:

pdf_iconInterview‘ in Rios, Diego; Schmidt-Petri, Christoph (eds.) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: 5 Questions. Copenhagen: Automatic Press, 2008.

pdf_iconSearle 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

pdf_iconApparently Irrational Beliefs’ in Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord (eds.) Handbook of Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology. Amerstedam: Elsevier, 2007, pp. 591-606

pdf_iconRethinking social criticism : some puzzles,’ History of the Human Sciences, 16, 4, 2003, pp. 85-89

pdf_iconDifferent Cultures, Different Rationalities’, Journal of the History of the Human Sciences, 13, 1. February 2000, pp. 5-18

pdf_iconOn 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

pdf_iconOn Trade-Offs between Values”, EUI SPS Working Papers n. 92/24

pdf_iconThe rationality of norms‘, Arch. Europe Sociology, 1991, XXIII, pp. 142-149.

pdf_iconIncommensurability in Science and Ethics” (trans. into Italian and published in Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica, Florence, 3, 1990)

pdf_iconThe 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)

pdf_iconOf 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

pdf_iconOn the Social Determination of Truth” in Horton, R. & Finnegan, R. (eds.): Modes of Thought: essays presented to E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1973, Faber, London)

pdf_iconMethodological Individualism Reconsidered‘, British Journal of Sociology, 1968, XIX, 2, pp. 119-129.

pdf_iconSome Problems about Rationality”, Archives européennes de sociologie, 1967, VIII, 2, pp. 247-264. Reprinted in Wilson, B.R. (ed.): Rationality (1970, Blackwell, Oxford)

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    Professor of Sociology
    D.Phil. 1968 (Sociology), B.A. 1962, Oxford University. Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, (LittD) 2009, University of East Anglia.

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