From the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, a special issue on pragmatism and the social sciences. Helen Kopnina (The Hague): Anthropocentric Bias in Anthropology: Re-Examining Culture/Conservation Conflict. Keith E. Whittington (Princeton): Critical Concepts in Political Science. Franz Dietrich (CNRS) and Christian List (LSE): Mentalism Versus Behaviourism in Economics: A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective. A review of Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique by Chris Hann and Keith Hart. Revenge of the sociologists: Andrew Ferguson on the perils of politically incorrect academic research. Because of advances in methods and theory, archaeology now addresses issues central to debates in the social sciences in a far more sophisticated manner than ever before. Why don't social scientists want to be read? Because they deal with systems that are highly complex, adaptive and not rigorously rule-bound, the social sciences are among the most difficult of disciplines, both methodologically and intellectually. You want to know the value of the social sciences? Here you go.
