The Philosophical Foundations of Multidisciplinary Social Science
This course will take a look at recent developments in philosophy of social sciences from the point of view of interdisciplinary research. Among the issues discussed will be scientific explanation, causation, social ontology, and human intentionality. The course will also take a look at philosophical theories of development of science and consider whether they apply to the social sciences.
The course will consist of lectures, readings and seminar exercises. The lecturer is Petri Ylikoski, professor of philosophy of science in University of Tampere.
Compensations: IR doctoral studies: Theory of Science, or IR: KVPOS2.
Pre-registration by 11.11. to isss@uta.fi.