1. Issues and arguments; 2. Challenges to scientific rationality; 3. Causes, confirmation, and explanation; 4. Functionalism defended; 5. The failures of individualism; 6. A science of interpretation?; 7. Economics: a test case; 8. Problems and prospects.
This 1996 book argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality.
"...Kincaid convincingly argues that both the natural sciences and the social sciences have a common core of scientific rationality based on naturalism and holism...This work is highly recommended to philosophers of science, social scientists, and graduate students in philosophy or in any of the social sciences." Choice "...well argued and necessary in arguing in many cases what should have been obvious for at least a century, but is still a minority view in contemporary discourse." Aviezer Tucker, Dialogue
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