Professor Stephen P Turner
Stephen Turner
Faculty Member, Philosophy
United States
My Publications
What is Scholarship for?
Journal of Classical Sociology
May 2019
Academic life has changed-- it is more invasive of the rest of the world, and more competitive, as well as being increasingly trivial. Trivialization and professionalization went hand in hand. So w...
Verstehen Naturalized
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
May 2019
The Belief-Desire Model of Action Explanation Reconsidered: Thoughts on Bittner
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
December 2017
Philosophical Argument and Wicked Problems
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
November 2017
From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Digital Clouds
The American Sociologist
August 2015
Was Sellars an error theorist?
Synthese
July 2015
The sources of the concept of collective intentionality in Durkheim and the path to the...
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
May 2015
Christian Smith. The Sacred Project of American Sociology
Society
January 2015
Human Sciences, History of
January 2015
Shils, Edward (1910–95)
January 2015
Social Scientists as Experts and Public Intellectuals
January 2015
Weber, Max (1864–1920)
January 2015
Going Post-Normal: A Response to Baehr, Albert, Gross, and Townsley
The American Sociologist
December 2014
Teoria social e neurociência
Tempo Social
December 2014
Joshua Derman: Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought From Charisma to Canonization
Society
April 2014
American Sociology
January 2014
Embodiment and its Relation to the Tacit: Response to Nikkel
Tradition and Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical
January 2014
Tacit Knowledge Meets Analytic Kantianism
Tradition and Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical
January 2014
Introduction
January 2014
The Postwar Boom
January 2014
The Elite and Its Power
January 2014
The Near-Death Experience and Its Consequences
January 2014
Activism, Professionalism, or Condominium?
January 2014
The Revolution of the 1920s and the Interwar Years
January 2014
The Crisis of the 1970s and Its Long-Term Consequences
January 2014
Pre-Academic Reformism and the Conflict between Advocacy and Objectivity until 1920
January 2014
The Blogosphere and its Enemies: The Case of Oophorectomy
The Sociological Review
December 2013
Sociology Rediscovering Ethics
Society
October 2013
Taking the Collective Out of Tacit Knowledge
Observatoire de la société britannique
October 2013
Book Symposium on Expertise: Philosophical Reflections By Evan Selinger Automatic Press...
Philosophy & Technology
September 2012
The Strength of Weak Empathy
Science in Context
July 2012
Making the Tacit Explicit
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
May 2012
Philosophy and Sociology
February 2012
The Young Shils
Tradition and Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical
January 2012
Habermas meets science
Syntax
June 2011
Davidson’s Normativity
June 2011
Meaning without Theory
Journal of the Philosophy of History
January 2011
Collingwood and Weber vs. Mink: History after the Cognitive Turn
Journal of the Philosophy of History
January 2011
Webs of Belief or Practices: the Problem of Understanding
European Journal of Sociology
December 2010
Normal Accidents of Expertise
Minerva
August 2010
Causality
January 2010
The Future of Social Theory
March 2009
Public Sociology and Democratic Theory
January 2009
Mindblind Philosophy of History
Journal of the Philosophy of History
June 2008
How Not To Do Science
Sociological Quarterly
May 2008
Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science
January 2008
Introduction. Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Met...
January 2008
Political Epistemology, Experts, and the Aggregation of Knowledge
Spontaneous Generations A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science
December 2007
Mirror Neurons and Practices: A Response to Lizardo
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
September 2007
Practice Then and Now
Human Affairs
January 2007
Defining a discipline
January 2007
Preface
January 2007
The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology
January 2007
Normative all the way down
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
June 2005
The Socratic Durkheim
January 2005
The third way
Society
January 2005
Giddings, Franklin Henry
January 2005
Durkheim, Émile
January 2005
The New Collectivism
History and Theory
October 2004
Cause, Teleology, and Method
August 2003
The Third Science War
Social Studies of Science
August 2003
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2003
The World Made by Human Studies
Human Studies
December 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
January 2002
Introduction
April 2000
The Cambridge Companion to Weber
January 2000
Regis A. Factor
Political Science and Politics
December 1999
The Significance of Shils
Sociological Theory
July 1999
Searle's Social Reality
History and Theory
May 1999
Comte after positivism
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
January 1998
Comte after positivism
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
January 1998
Bad Practices: A Reply
Human Studies
July 1997
Tenure and the Constitution of the University
Political Science and Politics
March 1997
Tenure and the Constitution of the University
Political Science and Politics
March 1997
Durkheim among the statisticians
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
October 1996
Durkheim among the statisticians
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
October 1996
Directions for future research
Knowledge Technology & Policy
June 1996
Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate Over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918...
American Journal of Sociology
March 1996
Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method: Is It a Classic?
Sociological Perspectives
March 1995
The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution. Zeev S...
American Journal of Sociology
March 1995
Obituary for Edward Shils
Tradition and Discovery The Polanyi Society Periodical
January 1995
MAX WEBER
January 1994
The origins of ‘mainstream sociology’ and other issues in the history of American socio...
Social Epistemology
January 1994
Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
November 1993
EMILE DURKHEIM
January 1993
Charisma and obedience: A risk cognition approach
The Leadership Quarterly
January 1993
Causality in Sociological Research Jakub Karpiński
Isis
June 1992
Sperber'sFashions in Science
Social Epistemology
January 1992
Rationality Today
Sociological Theory
January 1991
Social Constructionism and Social Theory
Sociological Theory
January 1991
Two Theorists of Action: Ihering and Weber
Analyse & Kritik
January 1991
Delusions of empire
The American Sociologist
September 1990
Weber and his philosophers
International Journal of Politics Culture and Society
June 1990
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
March 1990
The Disappearance of Tradition in Weber
Midwest Studies in Philosophy
January 1990
Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science: Selected Papers Donald T. Campbell E....
Isis
December 1989
Essays on the History of British Sociological Research.
Social Forces
September 1989
Jasso's Principle
Sociological Theory
January 1989
Tacit Knowledge and the Problem of Computer Modelling Cognitive Processes in Science
January 1989
Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse. Melvin Pollner
American Journal of Sociology
January 1989
Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
September 1988
Responses to ‘in defense of relativism’
Social Epistemology
July 1988
Understanding Social Science: A Philosophical Introduction to the Social Sciences Roge...
Isis
June 1988
Provocation on reproducing perspectives:Part 4
Social Epistemology
April 1988
Max Weber and Political Commitment: Science, Politics, and Personality. Edward Bryan P...
American Journal of Sociology
March 1988
Provocation on reproducing perspectives:Part 1
Social Epistemology
January 1988
The political face of ?rational morality?
Theory and Society
January 1988
Reason And Morality, Asa Monographs 24.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
May 1987
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900. Stephen M. Stig...
American Journal of Sociology
May 1987
Cause, Law, and Probability
Sociological Theory
January 1987
Underdetermination and the Promise of Statistical Sociology
Sociological Theory
January 1987
The survey in nineteenth-century American Geology: The evolution of a form of patronage
Minerva
January 1987
Thinking about Social Thinking: The Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
March 1986
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science
January 1986
The Interregnum
January 1986
Mill and ‘The Ascent to Causes’
January 1986
Quetelet: Rates and their Explanation
January 1986
Durkheim’s Individual
January 1986
Two Generations
January 1986
Objective Possibility and Adequate Cause
January 1986
Rationality and Action
January 1986
The End of the Ascent
January 1986
Large-Scale Explanations: Aggregation and Interpretation
January 1986
Beyond the Enlightenment: Comte and the New Problem of Social Science
January 1986
Weltgeist, Intention, and Reproduction: A Code
Sociological Theory
January 1985
Weber and Liberal Democracy Robert Eden, Political Leadership and Nihilism: A Study of ...
The Review of Politics
October 1984
Social theory without wholes
Intelligence
September 1984
Weber on Action
American Sociological Review
August 1983
Bunyan's Cage and Weber's Casing
Sociological Inquiry
December 1982
On the relevance of statistical relevance theory
Theory and Decision
June 1982
Weber's influence in Weimar Germany
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
April 1982
The Origin of Formalism in Social Science.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
March 1982
Moral Norms: A Tentative Systematization.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
September 1981
Essential Interactionism: On the Intelligibility of Prejudice.
Social Forces
June 1981
II.5 Interpretive Charity, Durkheim, and the ‘Strong Programme’ in the Sociology of Sci...
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
June 1981
Objective Possibility and Adequate Causation in Weber's Methodological Writings
The Sociological Review
February 1981
Methodological Approaches to Social Science.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
September 1980
Modelling and evaluating theories involving sequences: Description of a formal method
Quality & Quantity
August 1980
The limits of reason and some limitations of Weber's morality
Intelligence
December 1979
Meaning and the Moral Sciences.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
July 1979
The Age of Bureaucracy: Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
September 1978
Blau's Theory of Differentiation: Is It Explanatory?
Sociological Quarterly
January 1977
Blau's Theory of Differentiation: Is It Explanatory?
Sociological Quarterly
December 1976
Getting Clear About the “Sign Rule”
Sociological Quarterly
September 1974
The Logical Adequacy of "The Logical Adequacy of Homans' Social Theory"
American Sociological Review
August 1971
SOCIOLOGY RESPONDS TO FASCISM
January 1944
Frontmatter
Trust, Epistemic
Tacit Knowledge
Classic Sociology: Weber as an Analyst of Charisma
Religion and British Sociology
Charisma — neu bedacht
The Limits of Social Constructionism
Normativity and Social Explanation
A Life in the First Half-Century of Sociology
Philosophy of Sociology, History of
INTRODUCTION
Expertise and Political Responsibility: The Columbia Shuttle Catastrophe
SOCIOLOGY AND FASCISM IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
History of Sociology
The Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Organizational Studies
