Chance, causality and necessity in social sciences methodology. An open research between thesmos and nomos

Abstract

Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to identify lawlike regularities inside social sciences. This purpose rises from our will to contribute to the debate about the scientificity of such topics. After providing an overview of the most authoritative scholars who have broached the issue, an attempt will be made to propose an alternative answer through scientific computational research, that is neural networks.