Richard Ned Lebow: Major Texts on Methods and Philosophy of Science

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Richard Ned Lebow

   Pages 1-2

3. What Can We Know? How Do We Know?

   • Richard Ned Lebow

   Pages 3-22

4. Social Science as Case-Based Diagnostics

   • Steven Bernstein, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein, Steven Weber

   Pages 23-50

5. If Mozart Had Died at Your Age: Psychologic Versus Statistical Inference

   • Richard Ned Lebow

   Pages 51-65

6. Texts, Paradigms and Political Change

   • Richard Ned Lebow

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7. Constructing Cause in International Relations

   • Richard Ned Lebow

   Pages 89-115

8. Back Matter

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This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series. It not only provides a useful overview of this broad topic, but also provides deeper insight into specific topics like the philosophy of science causation, epistemology and methods, and especially on counter factual analysis.

• Epistemology
• Counterfactuals
• Causal Inference
• Max Weber
• Statistical Inference

• Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

  Richard Ned Lebow

In a career spanning six decades Richard Ned Lebow has made contributions to the study of international relations, political and intellectual history, motivational and social psychology, philosophy of science, and classics. He has authored, coauthored or edited 30 books and almost 250 peer reviewed articles.

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