Type of Credit: Required
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本課程為政治學系博士班共同必修課程，旨在培養博士生具備理解與批判研究方法之基本知能。
能力項目說明
本課程分為兩個部份。第一部份聚焦於社會科學理論的基本元素，探討的問題包括因果關係、個體與結構、科學中立、相對主義等核心議題。第二個部份旨在探討當前社會科學後設理論的主要流派，例如系譜學、結構學、詮釋學、批判理論與批判實在論等等。
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week 1: What is Philosophy of Social Sciences?
Week 2: Cause, Agent, and Structure
Week 3: Rationalism & Empiricism
Week 4: System, Function, and Game Theory
Week 5: Understanding & Explanation
Week 6: Neutrality, Objectivity, and Relativism
Week 7: Durkheim
Week 8: Weber
Week 9: Hermeneutics
Week 10: Genealogy
Week 11: Critical Theory
Week 12: Critical Realism
Week 13: The Concept of Scientific History
Week 14: Does Political Theory Still Exist?
Week 15: Historical Inevitability
Week 16: The Counter-Enlightenment
Week 17: The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities
Week 18: Final evaluation
Students should pay at least 20hrs/week for this class.
Class participation 30%
Final report 70%
1. Martin Hollis, The Philosophy of Social Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
2. Patrick Baert, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005).
3. Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1958).
4. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism (London: Routledge, 1992).
5. Max Weber, The Methodology of the Social Science (Glencoe: Free Press, 1949).
6. Ian Shapiro, The Flight From Reality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
7. D. P. Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
8. Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View (London: Macmillan, 1974).
9. Martin Hollis and Steven Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
10. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1970).
11. Colin Hay, Political Analysis (London: Palgrave, 2002).
13. Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes (eds.), Rationality and Relativism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1982).
14. Yvonne Sherratt, Continental Philosophy of Social Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
15. David Marsh and Gerry Stoker, Theory and Methods in Political Science (3rd ed.)(London: Palgrave, 2010).