Supplemental Readings

Motives and Mechanisms

1997. "Mechanism and Explanation." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 27:410-65

2004. "How Does it Work?: The Search for Explanatory Mechanisms." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34: 182-210

Craver, C. F. 2001. "Role Functions, Mechanisms, and Hierarchy." Philosophy of Science 68: 53-74.

Machamer, P., L. Darden and C. F. Craver. 2000. "Thinking About Mechanisms." Philosophy of Science 67: 1-25.

Elster J. 1983a. Explaining Technical Change: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1989b. Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1998b. "A Plea for Mechanisms", in Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, ed. P. Hedström and R. Swedberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999. Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hedström, P., and R. Swedberg. 1996. "Social Mechanisms", Acta Sociologica 39: 281-308
1998b. "Social Mechanisms: An Introductory Essay," in Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, ed. P. Hedström and R. Swedberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-31.