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(p. 647) Index
agent-based modeling, 365–66
Ahn, T. K., 589–90
American Political Science Review (journal), 540
American Psychiatric Association. See Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Anderson, Lisa R., 499
Andreasen, Nancy, 569
“Anthropology and the Abnormal” (Benedict), 560–61
Aristotle, 566–67
Arneson, Richard J., 600–601
Arntzenius, Frank, 280
assortativity, 442
Austin, J. L., 388
Axtell, Robert, 367
Banerjee, Abhijit V., 499–500
Bargh, John A., 430
“Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory” (Williams), 113
Baumgartner, Frank, 99–100
behavioralism, 540–41
Belkin, Aaron, 163–64
Bentham, Jeremy, 609
Bertrand, Marianne, 520–22
Bhaskar, Roy, 124
Binmore, Ken, 443
biological altruism, 440–41
biology and philosophy of biology
biological anthropology and, 471–72
common cause types and tokens in, 294
computational modeling and, 355–56
explanations and, 34–35
methods of, 8
Black, Duncan, 357
Blackmore, Susan, 466
Bolton, Derek, 561
Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 564
Bourdieu, Pierre
on kin relationships, 396–97
Boyd, Robert
definition of culture, 475
Boyer, Pascal, 401
Brady, Henry E., 70
Brand, Jennie E., 320
Brock, Dan, 612
Broh, Beckett A., 320
Bruch, Elizabeth, 376
Bruner, Jerome, 501
Buchanan, Alan, 598
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 244
Burrows, Lara, 430
Camerer, Colin, 488
Caporaso, James, 543
Caraway, Teri, 543
Carlsson, Hans, 497–98
Carr, Edward, 156
Carter, Bob, 121–22
Castillo, Richard, 561
causal mechanisms
methodological individualism and, 26–27
microfoundations and, 37–39
process tracing and, 71–78
psychology and, 21
roles and types of, 48–50
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (Pearl), 327
causally-relevant explanations, 358–61
Cederman, Lars-Erik, 378
Chaftez, Janet Salzman, 537
charter schools debate
quantitative methods and, 322–27
Chen, Mark, 430
child well-being, 634
Churchland, Patricia, 571
Churchland, Paul, 571
Cialdini, Robert B., 428–29
Cilliers, Paul, 117
“The Classification of Depressions: A Review of Contemporary Confusion” (Kendell), 569
Claude, Inis, 247
Clayton, Nicola, 487
Cobden, Richard, 245
cognitive psychology
counterfactuals and, 156
communal properties, 30–31
Comparative Political Studies (journal), 543
complex causality
overview, 9–10
quantitative methods and, 113–14
varieties of, 110–11
complex realism, 109–10
componential analysis (ethnoscience), 394
confounders
common cause types and, 287
descriptive-causal generalizations and, 97–98
regression analysis and, 137
constitution and constitutive explanations, 33–36
contextual empirical feminism. See empirical integrative feminism
contextualism, 639–40
Controlling the Sword (Russett), 240
conventions, 411
Cooper, Gregory J., 99
cooperation
assortativity and, 442
folk theorem of repeated games and, 443–45
justice as impartiality and, 582
social fitness and, 438–39
Corazzini, Luca, 499
correlates of war (COW) project, 242–43
Cosmides, Leda, 459
counterfactuals
causal mechanisms and, 24
definition of, 154
descriptive-causal generalizations and, 87
explanations and, 34–36
overview, 154–57
purposes of, 177–79
social science desiderata for, 160–66
Craver, Carl F., 72
Croce, Benedetto, 278
Croson, Rachel, 592
crucial experiments, 231–32
cultural anthropology, 463
cultural evolutionary theory
culture concept and, 474–77
opposition to, 460–72
overview, 458–60
particularity and, 472–74
cultural materialism, 393
Culture and Truth (Rosaldo), 396
customs, 30–31
Damme, Eric van, 497–98
Daniels, Norman, 609
Darity, William, Jr., 515
Dasgupta, Partha, 630–31
Davenport, Christian, 101
Davidson, Donald, 404
Davis, Lennard, 564
democratic peace theory
Desrosières, Alain, 122
The Determinants of Economic Growth (Barro), 47–48
developmental systems theory (DST), 476–77
The Dialogic Emergence of Culture (Tedlock and Mannheim), 404
directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)
distributions, 28–29
Donald, Merlin, 494–95
Downey, Douglas B., 320
Doya, Kenji, 492
Doyle, Michael W., 239
Dretske, Fred I., 145
Duflo, Esther, 298–99
Duhem, Pierre
balance of power debate and, 244–50
importance of, 229–30
underdetermination and, 230–35
Dunbar, R. I. M., 486–87
Earman, John, 234
economics
common cause types and, 294
computational models and, 367
coordination and, 496–97
Duhem and, 230
Edwards, David, 74
effect size
Ehrhart, Karl-Martin, 591
Eldredge, Niles, 472
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Durkheim), 391
Emery, Nathan, 487
empirical integrative feminism
feminist comparative policy and, 543–53
overview, 539–40
political science and, 540–43
epidemiology, 48
equifinality, 79
ethnoscience, 394
Euclidean geometry, 235–37
European Political Consortium for Research (ECPR), 542
evidence-based policy and practice (EBPP). See randomized controlled experiments (RCTs)
evolutionary biology
causal mechanisms and, 22
common cause tokens and, 294
computational modeling and, 355–56
methods of, 8
evolutionary social theory (evolutionary program)
cooperation and reciprocity in, 438–52
cultural evolution and, 458–77
overview, 436–37
public policy and, 437–38
experimental social science, 319
Explaining Culture (Sperber), 400
Explaining Technological Change (Elster), 48
explanandum-dependence, 145–48
explanations
causal mechanisms and, 48–49
decision theory and, 359
definitions and models of, 358–61
generalizations and, 425–26
intentional fundamentalism and, 39–42
philosophy of science and, 4, 6 See also causal explanations; deductive-nomological explanations; mechanism-based explanations
fallibilism, 231
falsification
generalizations and, 101
Farber, Henry, 241–42
feminism and feminist research
Ferree, Myra Marx, 551
Fielding, Nigel G., 115
Fisher, Helen, 571
folk racialism, 509
Follesdol, Dagfinn, 8
Fordham, Signithia, 514–15
Fredrickson, George, 516
Freire, Paulo, 124
Frith, Christopher D., 487
Fryer, Roland, 515
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 388
Gambetta, Diego, 39
game theory
definition of, 362
social science and, 9
ultimatum game, 432n4, 446–47, 451, 593, 595 See also evolutionary game theory; global game theory; prisoner’s dilemma game
Gauss-Markov theorem, 80
Gelman, Susan, 514
generative linguistics, 294
geology, 8
geometry, 235–37
gerontology, 632–34
Gilpin, Robert, 248–49
Goodwin, Brian, 119
Gowa, Joanne, 241–42
Graebner, Fritz, 390
Grasping the Democratic Peace (Russett), 240
Green, Donald, 241
Greenhill, Simon J., 472
Greenland, Sander, 260
Greiner, Ben, 499
Griffin, James, 637
Griffiths, Paul, 476–77
Grünbaum, Adolf, 233
Gunnthorsdottir, Anna, 591
Haas, Ernst B., 245
Haney-Lopez, Ian F., 519–20
Hankinson Nelson, Lynn, 537
Harris, Marvin, 393
Harsanyi, John, 482
Hayek, Friedrich, 278
Hayles, Katherine, 125
health policy
measurements of the value of health and, 610–13
restricted consequentialism and, 612–22
Heidegger, Martin, 404
Henderson, Errol R., 241
Hendry, David, 309
Henig, Jeffrey R., 321
herding problem, 499–500
Hermann, Margaret G., 241
Hiddleston, Eric, 167–69
historicism, 278
history and historiography
definitions of, 275
Holland, John, 110
Holland, Paul W., 71
Holsti, K.J., 245
Holt, Charles A., 499
Horwitz, Allan, 566
Hotelling, Harold, 357
Houser, Daniel, 591
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment (Dasgupta), 630–31
Humphrey, Nicholas, 486
Humphreys, Paul, 368
Hung, Angela A., 499
Hyde, Susan D., 76
individual causal effect (ICE), 155
inductivism, 233–34
Ingold, Tim, 466–67
institutional racism, 517–20
intentional fundamentalism, 39–42
interfield theories
international relations
Investigations (Kauffman), 111
Jaynes, E. T., 263
Jencks, Christopher, 186
Jones, A.H.M., 144
Jones, Bryan, 99–100
Jones, Doug, 515
Journal of Women Politics and Policy (journal), 542
justice
theories of, 583–85
Kallgren, Carl A., 428–29
Katz, Jonathan N., 241
Kauffman, S., 111
Kegley, Charles W., Jr., 241
Kendell, R. E., 569
Kendler, Ken, 636
Kendler, Kenneth, 568
Keohane, Robert O., 133
Keser, Claudia, 591
Kim, Soo Yeon, 241
kin selection, 441
King, Gary, 133
Kitcher, Philip, 235
Kluckhohn, Clyde, 387
knavery principle, 437–38
Kosso, Peter, 277
Kristeva, Julia, 538
Kuhn, Thomas, 6
Kuper, Adam, 461
Laudan, Larry, 234–35
Lawson, Thomas, 401
Layne, Christopher, 241
Lee, Raymond M., 115
Leplin, Jerrod, 235
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 311–12
Lewes, George, 115–16
Lewis, David
on Hume, 91–92
liberalism, 240
Lieberson, Stanley, 97–98
Locke, John, 436
Logic and Society (Elster), 177
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Popper), 269
Longino, Helen, 537
Lorenz, Konrad, 436
Lynch, Kevin, 124
Lynn, Freda B., 97–98
Machamer, Peter, 72
MacIver, Robert Morrison, 117
Mackie, John L., 94
Mahoney, James
on causal mechanisms, 72
Mallon, Ron, 515
Malouf, Michael, 446
Mannheim, Bruce, 404
Mansfield, Edward D., 242
Mantzavinos, Chrysostomos, 8
Marcus, George, 395
Martin, Raymond, 145
Maull, Nancy, 413
Maynard Smith, John, 441
Mazur, Amy G., 544
McCabe, Kevin, 591
McCauley, Robert, 401
McKeown, Timothy J., 68
Mead, Margaret, 393
memes, 463–69
mental health
well-being and, 636–37
meta-analytic tendency laws, 101–3
methodological individualism
explanations and, 36
intentional fundamentalism and, 39–42
overview, 26–27
methodological probabilities, 188–89
Midlarsky, Manus I., 241
Miller, Richard W., 145
Mises, Ludwig von, 278
Moore, Barrington, Jr., 134–35
Morgenstern, Oskar, 371
Morin, Edgar, 110
Morris, Stephen, 497–98
Mullainathan, Sendhil, 520–21
multiple realization, 26
Murdock, George, 393
Murphy, Liam, 600–601
Myerson, Roger, 362
natural sciences, positivism and, 8
new ethnography (ethnoscience), 394
Newton, Isaac, 262–63
nonreductive materialism, 26
Nozick, Robert, 599
Odling-Smee, John, 467
Ofek, Haim, 495
Ogbu, John Uzo, 514–15
Omi, Michael, 513
Oren, Ido, 241
organizational ecology, 8
organizations, 31–32
Organski, A.F.K., 248
Orwell, George, 377
Owen, John M., 243
Oyama, Susan, 476–77
Page, Scott, 376
Page, Talbot, 591
particularity, 472–74
Passeron, Jean-Claude, 119
Pearl, Judea
Pearson, Karl, 9
Perestroika movement, 540–41
Perpetual Peace (Kant), 239
Perspectives in Politics (journal), 540
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein), 111
philosophy
philosophy of biology. See biology and philosophy of biology
philosophy of geometry, 235–37
philosophy of mind, 26–27
philosophy of science, 3–8
phylogeny, 294
Pierce, Charles Sanders, 279
political realism, 240
positivism
counterfactuals and, 156
explanations and, 359
natural sciences and, 7–8
philosophy of science and, 3–4
Prigogine, Ilya, 123–24
Primitive Culture (Tylor), 389–90
prisoner’s dilemma game
coordination and, 443–44
process tracing
causal mechanisms and, 71–78
counterfactuals and, 178–79
methodological foundations of, 78–81
overview, 65–71
prudential good, 626–29
Przeworski, Adam, 143
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psychology
causal mechanisms and, 21
social science and, 33, 481 See also cognitive psychology; evolutionary psychology; social psychology
public policy
complex causality and, 126
consequentialism and, 607–9
evolutionary social theory and, 437–38
regression analysis and, 47–48
social probabilities and, 185
Putterman, Louis, 591
qualitative methods
complex causality and, 79
feminist research and, 549
overview, 133
vs. quantitative methods, 65–66, 71 See also process tracing; qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)
quantitative methods
complex causality and, 113–14
feminist research and, 549
observational social science and, 322–27
overview, 133
Quine, Willard Van Ormand
on Duhem, 230
ethnoscientists and, 394
on linguistic communities, 388
norms as rules and, 422
on theories, 6
underdetermination and, 232–33
race
FFF mechanistic probabilities and, 217–18
as psychologically constrained social role, 522–24
social constructionism and, 512–22
Racial Formation in the United States (Omi and Winant), 513
Randall, Vicky, 541
Rasler, Karen, 249
Reiss, Julian, 175
Reno, Raymond R., 428–29
Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS), 550–53
restricted complexity, 110–11
Richerson, Peter
definition of culture, 475
Ringer, Fritz, 113
Rodrik, Dani, 60–61
Root, Michael, 510
Ross, Robert M., 472
Roth, Alvin, 446
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 436
Ryckman, Mike, 90
Ryle, Gilbert, 394
Sabshin, Melvin, 568
Sartori, Giovanni, 546
Savage, Leonard J., 260
Sayer, Andrew, 120
Schweighofer, Nicolas, 492
The Science Question in Feminism (Harding), 536–37
Scott, Joan, 546
Sealey, Alison, 121–22
Seawright, Jason, 80
Sellars, Wilfrid, 388
Sgroi, Daniel, 499
Shapiro, Ian, 66
Shin, Hyun Song, 497–98
Sidgwick, Henry, 609
Siim, Birte, 541
Singer, J. David, 242–43
Sklar, Lawrence, 235
Small, Melvin, 242–43
Snyder, Jack, 242
social atomism, 500
Social Mechanisms (Hedström and Swedberg), 48
social network analysis, 29–30
The Social Theory of Practices (Turner), 403–4
society, definition of, 487
sociology
causal mechanisms and, 9
complex causality and, 10
computational models and, 367
regression analysis and, 48
social macro properties and, 28–30
Spencer, Herbert, 391
Spiro, David E., 241
Squires, Judith, 538
Starr, Harvey, 99
Sterelny, Kim, 468–69
structural realism, 165
subjective well-being (SWB), 635–37
Tanney, Julia, 401–2
Taylor, Charles, 7–8
team reasoning, 484–85
Tedlock, Dennis, 404
Tëmkin, Ilya, 472
“Thick Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture” (Geertz), 394–95
Tinbergen, Nikolaas, 436
Tooby, John, 459
Torelli, Paul, 515
“Transcending General Linear Reality” (Abbott), 324
Tripp, Aili Mari, 543
Tucker, Richard, 241
Tukey, John, 119
Turner, Mark, 501
Tyson, Karolyn, 515
underdetermination, 230–35
Unel, Bulent, 591
Vaisey, Steve, 94
Verba, Sidney, 133
Virchow, Rudolf, 390
Von Hippel, Paul T., 320
Von Neumann, John, 371
Walby, Sylvia, 118
Walker, James M., 589–90
Wallerstein, Michael, 143
Wantchekon, Leonard, 76
welfare state, 601–2
well-being
in everyday life, 629–31
Wellman, Henry, 514
What Time is this Place? (Lynch), 124
White, Leslie, 393
Whitehouse, Harvey, 401
Whiten, Andrew, 475–76
Williams, Raymond, 113
Wilson, E. O., 436
Wilson, Mark, 629
Winant, Howard, 513
Winokur, George, 569
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
beetle in the box, 501
Kauffman and, 111
on linguistic communities, 388
norms as rules and, 422
practice theory and, 404
Women and Politics (journal), 544
Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus), 395
Xie, Yu, 320
Ylikoski, Petri, 50
Yoon, David, 241
Young, Peyton, 483
Yule, Udny, 132
Zorn, Christopher, 95–96