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Ph.D. on Management and Organization

MAN601

PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Course Code
MAN601
Semester
First Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelDoctorate Of Science
Year of Study1
SemesterFirst Term (Fall)
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s) -
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Improving the skill of sketching general framework of the Philosophy of Social Science with a critical mind.
  2. Becoming a researcher who is eligible to improve and criticise the literature in the field of the Philosophy of Social Science.
  3. Improving the skill of writing a conceptual paper which is prepared as addressable in the field of the Philosophy of Social Science.
  4. Will comprehend ethical principles specific to social sciences
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNone
Course DescriptionScience foresees about building assumptions, generating conjectures, measuring data and converting accumulated knowledge to guiding theories. In case of philosophy of science, it concerns about how science accomplishes these works and what will be the consequences of these researches. In addition to regular work of philosophy of science it also deeply investigates metaphysic, epistemology, and relations of linguistics and science. Despite some disagreements about the relation between philosophy and science, we think science can?T be left out from the thinking skills. So we agree on the attitude of scientists: ?there would be no science without philosophy?. The endeavor of social sciences for gaining legitimacy against natural sciences is a direct concern of the philosophy of social science. Therefore the philosophy of social science investigates similarities and differences between social sciences and natural sciences.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Beginning: The great responsibility of doing science
2nd Week Insights of scientists
3rd Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences
4th Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences
5th Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences
6th Week The philosophy of science and the social sciences
7th Week Scientific realism
8th Week Scientific realism
9th Week Positivism - Logical positivism
10th Week Positivism - Logical positivism
11th Week Mind and Consciousness theory
12th Week Social Realism
13th Week Theory building on the field of organization and management
14th Week The beginning of the end
15th Week General Assessment
Recommended or Required ReadingAzevedo, J. 2002. Updating organizational epistemology. J. A. C. Baum (Der.). The Blackwell Companion to Organizations: 715-732. Oxford: Blackwell.
Balashov, Y. ve Rosenberg, A (Der.). 2002. Philosophy of science: Contemporary reading. London: Routledge.
Bird, A. 2003. Kuhn, nominalism, and empiricism. Philosophy of Science, 70:690-719.
Boyd, R. 1999. On the current status of scientific realism. R. Boyd, P. Gasper ve J. D. Trout(Der.), The philosophy of science: 196-222. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.
Boxenbaum, E. ve Rouleau, L. 2011. New knowledge products as bricolage: Metaphors and scripts in organizational theory. Academy of Management Review, 36(2):272-296.
Bunge, M. 1993. Realism and antirealism in social sciences. Theory and Decision, 35:207-235.
Burrell, G. ve Morgan, G. 1979. Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. New Hampshire: Heineman. s. 1-117.
Cruse, P. 2007. Van Fraassen on the nature of empricism. Metaphilosophy, 38(4):489-508.
Chakravartty, A. 2004. Structuralism as a form of scientific realism. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 18(2):151-171.
Collins, R. 1998. The sociology of philosophies: A global theory of intellectual change. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
DiSalle, R. 2002. Reconsidering Kant, Friedman, logical positivism, and the exact sciences. Philosophy of Science, 69:191-211.
Fay, B. 2003. Phenomenology and social inquiry: From consciousness to culture and critique. S. P. Turner ve P. A. Roth (Der.). The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of social sciences: 42-63. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Folger, R. And Turillo, C. J. 1999. Theorizing as the Thickness of Thin Abstraction. Academy of Management Review, 24:605-622.
Hacking, I. 1999. The social construction of what? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Hall, J. R. 1990. Epistemology and sociohistorical inquiry. Annual Review of Sociology, 16:329-351.
Hopp, W. 2008. Husserl, phenomenology and foundationalism. Inquiry, 51(2):194-216.
Keat, R. ve Urry, J. 1975. Social theory as science. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Keat, R. ve Urry, J. 1975. Structure and structuralism. Social theory as science: 119-140. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Kilduff, M., Mehra, A. ve Dunn, M. B. 2011. From blue sky research to problem solving: A philosophy of science theory of new knowledge production. Academy of Management Review, 36(2):297-317.
Kitchener, R. F. 2004. Logical positivism, naturalistic epistemology, and the foundations of psychology. Behavior and philosophy, 32:37-54.
Kuhn, T. S. 1970. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. s. 1-76.
Lieberson, S. ve Lynn, F. B. 2002. Barking up the wrong branch: Scientific alternatives to the current model of sociological science. Annual Review of Sociology, 28:1-19.
Mahner, M. ve Bunge, M. 2001. Function and functionalism: A synthetic perspective. Philosophy of Science, 68:75-94.
Martin, J. L. 2003. What is field theory? American Journal of Sociology, 109:1-49.
Miller, A. I. 2000. Insights of genious: Imagery and creativity in science and art: 1-36. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Moldoveanu, M. C. ve Baum, J. A. 2002. Contemporary debates in organizational epistemology. J. A. C. Baum (Der.). The Blackwell Companion to Organizations: 733-751. Oxford: Blackwell.
Psillos, S. 2005. Scientific realism and metaphysics. Ratio, 18(4):385-404.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Assignment 1 50
Presentation of Article 1 50
Total(%) 100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 0
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework 4 40 160
Article 3 30 90
Total Work Load292
Total Work Load / 30 (h)9.73
ECTS Credit of the Course10
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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