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社會科學方法論
課程介紹：
本課程之內容有五個重點：第一、當代社會科學發展的歷史；第二、當代科學哲學理論的發展；第三、當代社會科學哲學的主要理論派別，特別是「實證主義」與「後實證主義」之間的爭論；第四、「實證主義」與「後實證主義」社會科學方法論對於政治學研究的啟示；第五、從方法論角度看有關社會科學本土化的爭論。

課程要求：
上課將排定座次，從第一週開始，助教每堂課點名。全學期上課接近全勤者（缺課不超過三次），學期成績以六十分為底分。在每一堂上課結束後，講授大綱將按進度在系網頁上公佈供同學下載，修課同學必須詳讀大綱並設法充分理解。本課程將不舉行期中考，只舉行期末考。

課程指定讀物:
1. James Ladyman. 2002. Understanding Philosophy of Science. London: Routledge.
2. Mark Smith. 1998. Social Science in Question. London: Sage Publications (吳翠松翻譯. 社會科學概說 台北：偉伯文化事業出版社)
特別推薦讀物
1. Peter Manicas, 1987. A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, London: Basil Blackwell.
2. David Marsh and Gerry Stoker. 1995.（陳蒨雯等譯）政治學方法論 Theory and Methods in Political Science 台北：韋伯文化事業出版社。
3. William Outhwaite. 1987. New Philosophies of Social Science. London: MacMillan.
4. Andrew Sayer. 2000. Realism and Social Science. London: Sage Publications.
5. 朱雲漢、王紹光、趙全勝主編，2002. 華人社會政治學本土化研究的理論與實踐 台北：桂冠圖書公司
6. Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingmann eds. 1996. A New Handbook of Political Science. Oxford University Press.

推薦讀物：
1. 喬健、李沛良 主編 社會科學的應用與中國現代化 (高雄：麗文文化出版事業，1999)
2. 石之瑜 政治學的知識脈絡（台北：五南圖書，2001）
3. 石之瑜 社會科學方法新論 （台北：五南圖書，2002）
4. 葉啟正 進出「結構─行動」的困境 （台北：三民書局, 2000）
5. Robert Klee, 1997. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Cutting Nature at Its Seams. Oxford University Press.
6. Robert Klee, ed. 1998. Scientific Inquiry : Readings in the Philosophy of Science. Oxford University Press.
7. John Elster, 1989. Nuts and Bolts for Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
8. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt. 1997. Higher Superstition : The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science. Johns Hopkins University Press.
9. Andrew Sayer, 1992. Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach, London: Routledge.
10. Martin Hollis, 1994. The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
11. Anthony Giddens. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
12. P. Wagner, B. Wittrock, and R. Whiteley eds., Sociology of the Science – A Yearbook. Vol. 15. Discourses on Society: The Shaping of the Social Sciences, Dordretch: Kluwer, 1991.
13. Peter Hedstrom and Richard Swedberg eds. Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
14. Lawrence Mohr. 1996. The Causes of Human Behavior: Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences. University of Michigan Press.
15. Earl Babbie. 2002. The Basic of Social Research, 2nd Edition. Wadsworth.
16. Phillips Shively. 2002. The Craft of Political Research, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall.

課程內容大綱
I. Introduction
1. What is science?
2. Images of science: product, method and social activities
3. Philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics: the “demarcation” problem
4. What philosophy of science is not about: its relations to history, psychology and sociology of science
5. Natural science and social sciences: naturalism and anti-naturalism

閱讀進度：
Understanding Philosophy of Science: Introduction.

II. The Historical Development of Modern Science and Social Sciences
1. The rise of modern science: demarcation of science and philosophy
2. The role of science in modern society: modern science, modern state and capitalist development
3. The genesis of modern social sciences.
4. The role of social sciences in modern societies.

閱讀進度：「社會科學概說」:第一章、第二章

III. Great Debates in Philosophy of Science
1. Induction and Inductivism
2. Logic-Positivism and Popper’s Falsificationism
3. The Kuhnian revolution: the revenge of Historicism
4. The post-Kuhnian debates
5. The Social Constructivist challenge
6. The reconstruction of a rational account of scientific progress: Scientific Realism

閱讀進度：
Understanding Philosophy of Science: Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5
「社會科學概說」：第三章

IV. Different Views of Social Science as a Science
1. The Scientific Movements in Social Science
2. Great Debates in Philosophy of Social Science
(1) Possibility of Naturalism:
Logical Positivist View
Scientific Realist View
(2) Impossibility of Naturalism:
Hermeneutic View
Post-Modern Varieties of Post-Positivism

閱讀進度：
Andrew Sayer. 2000. Realism and Social Science: Introduction and Chapter 1.
「社會科學概說」：第四章、第五章

V. Implications for Political Science
1. The scientific movement of 1950s and 1960s
2. The revival of political economy in 1980s
3. The institutionalist turn of 1990s
4. The return of culture at the turn of the century

閱讀進度：
「政治學方法論」：緒論
A New Handbook of Political Science: Chapters 2-3.

VII. The Issue of Indigenization
1. The Americanization of social sciences
2. The structural dependency of social sciences in East Asia
3. The case for indigenization
4. The development and prospect of social sciences in Taiwan

閱讀進度：
「華人社會政治學本土化研究的理論與實踐」：pp. 3-82