Notes on Contributors .......................................... ix
Introduction .................................................... 1
Nancy Cartwright and Eleonora Montuschi
Part I. Current Debates
1 Weil-Being ................................................... 9
Anna Alexandrova
2 Climate Change .............................................. 31
Wendy Parker
3 Evidence-Based Policy ....................................... 48
Eileen Munro
4 Community-Based Collaborative Archaeology ................... 68
Alison Wylie
Part II. Ontological Issues
5 Social Ontology ............................................. 85
Deborah Tollefsen
6 Individuals or Populations? ................................ 102
Helen Longino
Part III. Questions about Objectivity
7 Scientific Objectivity ..................................... 123
Eleonora Montuschi
8 Feminist Standpoint Theory ................................. 145
Sharon Crasnow
9 Values in Social Science ................................... 162
Heather Douglas
Part IV. Using Formal Models
10 Choice Models .............................................. 185
Katie Steele
11 Norms, Conventions, and the Power of Expectations .......... 208
Cristina Bicchieri
Part V. Methodological Perspectives
12 Interdisciplinarity in Action .............................. 233
Sophia Efstathiou and Zara Mirmalek
13 Social Epistemology in Practice ............................ 249
Miriam Solomon
Part VI. Research Methods
14 Measurement ................................................ 265
Nancy Cartwright and Rosa Runhardt
15 Case Studies ............................................... 288
Mary S. Morgan
16 Causal Inference ........................................... 308
Nancy Cartwright
Index ......................................................... 327
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