History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Yafeng Shan is Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His books include Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy (Springer, 2024), Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-Making and Mechanism (OUP, 2024), Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers (Routledge, 2023), Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2023), Examining Philosophy Itself (Wiley, 2023), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (Routledge, 2022), and Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020).