metaphysics of the social sciences

Animals are driven by carrots or sticks. Humans are animals. So we understand human careers by understanding the carrots or sticks that drive them.

Some animals believe that their carrot is unlike all other carrots. Or that their sticks are unlike all other sticks. Unless a method of judgement can be agreed upon, the exploration of methods to prove the veracity of such claims is futile.

Politics is the study of carrots and sticks. When economics concerns itself with only numerical analyses, we see it and politics as different. When economics concerns itself with behavioural structure, then behavioural economics and computational political science are exactly the same thing. History, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and critical theory are different from this only in terms of having a focus on meriology and naming - ontological concerns, which once subject to quantification come back ... only to mere behavioural economics.

The reduction from these to the natural sciences is well-known and trivial to explain.