This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Philosophy of Social Science provides a solid introduction to the connections between social science and philosophy.;What is the philosophy of social science -- The methodological divide: naturalism v. interpretation -- The explanation of human action -- Intentionality and intensionality -- Behaviorism in the behavioral sciences -- Problems of rational choice theory -- Social psychology and the construction of society -- Philosophical anthropology -- Holism and antireductionism in sociology and psychology -- Functionalism as a research program -- Sociobiology or the standard social science model? -- Theories of cultural evolution -- Research ethics in social inquiry -- Facts and values in the human sciences -- Social science and the enduring questions of philosophy.