Describing and Evaluating the Social Sciences : Lessons from a Conceptual Scheme and its Example Implementation

Diplôme Master Describing and Evaluating the Social Sciences : Lessons from a Conceptual Scheme and its Example Implementation eng 2020 author Bordo Garcia Luis Alejandro 0009-0008-3172-1413 888459 director Weber Marcel 0000-0003-2142-5043 659406 I first elaborate a descriptive and evaluative conceptual scheme intended to organize the analysis of any social-scientific framework. The descriptive aspect regards the historical development of ideas of the framework under question. The evaluative aspect regards this development both (a) in relative terms to what practitioners find important, and (b) in more general terms, proposing some explicit evaluative criteria. Then, I show how this scheme could be implemented using a restricted part of the historical development of the account of individual decision-making of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) as an example. To do this, I use Network Analysis to organize an analysis of citations between texts to guide the historical description of this development, which is then used as a base to propose possible lines of evaluation. Lastly, I present a series of reflections and lessons that the elaboration of this scheme and its example implementation leave for the Philosophy and History of the Social Sciences. Philosophy of the Social Sciences History of Expected Utility Theory Citation Network Analysis Dewey 100/501 Master of Arts in Philosophy with Specialization in the Philosophy of Science 89 Département de philosophie 3G false https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4005963 35f518ea-5729-420f-981c-b4c378c245c3 Master thesis Public MAThesis.pdf 536308 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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