Main group 1

• Comte, Auguste; Martineau, Harriet; Harrison, Frederic, The Positive philosophy of Auguste Comte: Volume 1, London, Georg Bell & Sons, 1896
• Durkheim, Émile, The rules of sociological method, New York, Free press, cop. 1982
• Kuhn, Thomas S., The structure of scientific revolutions, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1962
• Lipton, Peter, Does the Truth Matter in Science?, Part of: Arts and humanities in higher education, 2005, p. 173–183
• Popper, Karl, Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge, [5. ed., rev.], London, Routledge, 2002
• Richardson, Alan, Robert K. Merton and Philosophy of Science, Part of: Social studies of science: an international review of research in the social dimensions of science and technology, 2004, p. 855–858
• Schutz, Alfred, On Multiple Realities, Part of: Philosophy and phenomenological research: a quarterly journal, 1945, p. 533–57
• Winch, Peter, The idea of a social science and its relation to philosophy, London ;a New York, Routledge, 2008