DARK AGES: The Case For A Science Of Human Behavior (MIT Press, 2006) In this outspoken and forthright book, Lee McIntyre argues that today we are in a new Dark Age—that we are as ignorant of the causes of human behavior as people centuries ago were of the causes of such natural phenomena as disease, famine, and eclipses. Read More...

 

PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY: Synthesis of a New Discipline Edited by Davis Baird, Eric Scerri, and Lee McIntyre (Springer Publishers, 2006) With selections drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, philosophers, chemists, and historians of science here converge to ask some of the most fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry. Read More...

 

LAWS AND EXPLANATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Defending a Science of Human Behavior (Westview Press, 1996) By pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, McIntyre shows that the barriers to social scientific laws are not generated by factors unique to social inquiry, but arise from a largely common set of problems that face any scientific endeavor. Read More...

 

READINGS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Edited by Michael Martin and Lee McIntyre (MIT Press, 1994) This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in the discipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarship in the field and could be used as the basis for an entire course. Read More...