What Can We Know? How Do We Know? / Richard Ned Lebow
Foundational Claims
Evidence, Inference, and Truth as Problems of Theory Building in the Social Sciences / Friedrich V. Kratochwil
The Limits of Interpreting Evidence / Ted Hopf
The Product of Inquiry
Beyond Logical Positivism: Reframing King, Keohane, and Verba / Brian Pollins
Methodological Pluralism and the Limits of Naturalism in the Study of Politics / Fred Chernoff
The Purpose and Methods of Research
Transforming Inferences into Explanations: Lessons from the Study of Mass Extinctions / David A. Waldner
Theory, Evidence, and Politics in the Evolution of International Relations Research Programs / Jack S. Levy
Peace of Imperial Method?: Skeptical Inquiries into Ambiguous Evidence for the "Democratic Peace" / Andrew Lawrence
New Directions
Social Science as Case-Based Diagnostics / Steven Bernstein, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein & Steven Weber
Theory and Evidence / Mark Irving Lichbach.