A new epitheoretical analysis of social theories

a reconstruction of their background knowledge including a model of statistical decision theory

Werner Leinfellner

3-43

Theories and phenomena

Frederick Suppe

45-91

Partial interpretation and microeconomics

Alexander Rosenberg

93-109

The foundation of science on cognitive mini-models, with applications to the German methodenstreit and the advent of econometrics

Werner Meissner, Hermann Wold

111-146

Systems of social exchange

James S. Coleman

149-173

The concept of social structure

Mario Bunge

175-215

Societies and social decision functions

Antonio Camacho

217-253

Honing Occam's razor

a general system theory perspective on social science methodology

John W. Sutherland

255-284

Toward fuzzy reasoning in the behavioral sciences

Hans-Werner Gottinger

287-308

Evolutionary laws in the social sciences

Stephen Gale

309-336

Methodological analysis of imprecision in the assessment of personal probabilities

Raymond H. Burros

337-362

The necessity, sufficiency and desirability of experts as value forecasters

Gordon Welty

363-379

Rational choice models and self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecies

Bernard Grofman

381-383

Statistical probabilities

single case propensities vs. long-run frequencies

James H. Fetzer

387-397

Variety of objects as a parameter for experimentation

an extension of Carnap's inductive logic

Eckehart Köhler

399-416

The strategic combination argument

Graham L. Staines

417-430