Acting President's Seminar: What counts as evidence in the Social Sciences?
Convener: Philomen Probert
Speakers: Mark Casson (University of Reading), Marc Ventresca (Said Business School)
Social scientists study phenomena in which people play a fundamental role: the economy, law, the internet, Brexit, and so on. People can generally do whatever they like, and so their behaviour is not governed by rules in the same way as the phenomena studied by physicists and chemists. Given this, what kinds of questions can social scientists answer, and how do they do it? Do different kinds of social scientists have different approaches to evidence, and if so how?
Further Information
All are invited to this seminar, followed by an informal supper in the Hall.
