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1 Reading List for HPS 1106, History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Spring 2009 Instructor: Dr. Mark Solovey The required books for this class are also listed on the syllabus. The rest of the readings will be readily available. Abbreviations: HOPE JHBS
History of Political Economy Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
I suggest that you do the readings for each week in the order listed. Week 1 No readings. Week 2 Martin, Michael & Lee C. McIntyre, "Introduction," pp. xii-xxii in Martin & McIntyre, eds., Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science, 1994. Smith, Roger, "The Big Picture: Writing Psychology into the History of the Human Sciences," JHBS 34 (1998), 1-13. Guess, Raymond, "Critical Theory," ch. 3, pp. 55-97 in Guess, The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School, 1981/1991. Margaret Schabas, "Coming Together: History of Economics as History of Science," HOPE 34 (2002), 208-225. Week 3 Heilbroner, Robert L., "The Socialization of the Individual in Adam Smith," HOPE 14 (1982), 427-439. Evensky, Jerry, "The Evolution of Adam Smith's Views on Political Economy," HOPE 21 (1989), 123-145. Oswald, Donald J., "Metaphysical Beliefs and the Foundations of Smithian Political Economy," HOPE 27 (1995), 449-476. Brown, Vivienne, "'Mere Inventions of the Imagination': A Survey of Recent Literature on Adam Smith," Economics and Philosophy 13 (1997), 281-312.
2 Week 4 Heilbroner, Robert L., "The Inexorable System of Karl Marx," ch. 6, pp. 136-170 in Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of The Great Economic Thinkers, 6th ed., 1986. Taylor, Angus, "The Significance of Darwinian Theory for Marx and Engels," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1989), 409-423. Mackenzie, Donald, "Marx and the Machine," Technology and Culture 25 (1984), 473-502. Brewer, Anthony, "A Minor Post-Ricardian? Marx as an Economist," HOPE 27 (1995), 111-145 Week 5 Schabas, Margaret, The Natural Origins of Economics, 2005. Week 6 Olson, Richard, Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 2008. Week 7 Stocking, George W., Jr., "From Physics to Ethnology," pp. 132-160 in Stocking, Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology, 1968. Cravens, Hamilton, "Onmis Cultura Ex Cultura," pp. 81-120 in his book The Triumph of Evolution: The Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1978. Degler, Carl N., "Laying the Foundation," pp. 59-83 in his book In Search of Human Nature, 1991. Week 8 Haskell, Thomas L., The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority, 2001 ed.. Week 9 Latham, Michael, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era, 2000.
3 Week 10 Bernstein, Michael A., "American Economics and the National Security State, 1941-1953," Radical History Review 63 (1995), 8-26. Solovey, Mark, "Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus," Social Studies of Science 31 (2001), 171-206. Crowther-Heyck, Hunter, "Patrons of the Revolution," ISIS 97 (2006), 420-446. Isaac, Joel, "The Human Sciences in Cold War America," The Historical Journal 50 (2007), 725746. Week 11 Harding, Sandra, "Introduction: Is There a Feminist Method?" pp. 1-14 in Harding, ed., Feminism and Methodology, 1987. Folbre, Nancy, "How Does She Know? Feminist Theories of Gender Bias in Economics," HOPE 25 (1993), 167-184. Silverberg, Helene, "Introduction: Toward a Gendered Social Science History," pp. 3-32 in Silverberg, ed., Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years, 1998. Schiebinger, Londa, "Primatology, Archaeology, and Human Origins," pp, 126-144 in her book Has Feminism Changed Science? 1999. Week 12 No readings. Week 13 Igo, Sarah E., The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, 2007.
