Core 1: The Structure of Social Knowledge

Course Bibliography

Berger, P. & T. Luckmann (1984) The Social Construction of Reality, Pelican Books.

Bhaskar, R. (1979) The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences (2nd ed). New York: Harvester Press.

Bloor, David. (1976) Knowledge and Social Imagery. London: Routledge.

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1992). An invitation to reflexive sociology. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

Descartes, Rene. (trans. 1956). Discourse on Method New York: Liberal Arts Press.

Durkheim, Emile. (trans. 1974). Sociology and Philosophy. New York: Free Press.

Dewey, John. (1934). Art as ExperienceNew York: Perigee Books, 1980.

Dewey, John. (1938). Logic: The Theory of Inquiry New York: Irvington, 1982.

Feyerabend, Paul. (1975) Against Method, London: New Left Books.

Feyerabend, Paul. (1985) ‘Popper’s Objective Knowledge’ & ‘The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes’, in Problems of Empiricism, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge (1980), New York: Pantheon.

Garfinkel, A. (1981) Forms of Explanation: Rethinking the Questions in Social Theory, New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.

Geertz, Clifford (1983) ‘From the Native Point of View’, in The Interpretation of Culture, New York: HarperCollins.

Geertz, Clifford. (1983).Local knowledge : further essays in interpretive anthropology. New York : Basic Books.

Harding, S. & Hintikka, M. eds. (1983). Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectivies on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Reidel.

Haraway, Donna. (1989). Primate Visions. New York: Routledge.

Harding, S. (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Hollis, M. (1994). The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction, Cambridge: CUP.

Hume, David. Treatise on Human Nature. New York: Dutton (edition of 1964).

Keller, Evelyn Fox. (1985). Reflections on Gender and Science, New Haven Conn: Yale University Press.

Kuhn, Thomas. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Latour, Bruno. & Woolgar, Steven. (1979). Laboratory Life, Los Angeles: Sage.

Machlup, Fritz. (1984). Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution and Economic Significance. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Machlup, Fritz. (1961). ‘Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior’, Southern Economic Journal 17.

Mannheim, Karl.  (1936). Ideology and Utopia New York: Harcourt Brace (1970).

Manicas, P.T. (1987). A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Oxford: Blackwell.

Martin, M. & L.C. McIntyre eds. (1994). Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Marx, Karl. German Ideology (trans.), New York: International Publishers, 1972.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge.

Popper, Karl. (1959). Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson

Popper, Karl. (1972). Objective Knowledge, London: RKP.

Schutz, A. ‘Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences’ in D. Emmet & A. MacIntyre (eds.), Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis. New York: Macmillan.

Searle, J.R. (1995). The Construction of Social Reality, London: Penguin.

Vico, Giambattista. The New Science of Giovanni Battista Vico, (trans.) .Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.