The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism: Volume II

The two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism, discussing historical and contemporary debates and cutting-edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. It provides teachers, researchers, and students with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers, and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century.

Format: Hardback
Length: 693 pages
Publication date: 29 December 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, but it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach's classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, economics, and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as cutting-edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. Bringing together multiple contributions from the world's leading experts on this important tradition of theorizing, this collective endeavor provides teachers, researchers, and students in sociology, economics, and philosophy with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers, and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century.

Weight: 1226g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031415074
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023