Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophy of the Social Sciences is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds10
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research9
Book Review: Media and the Power of Knowledge Steve Fuller. Media and the Power of Knowledge. Bloomsbury, 2026.240 pp. ISBN: 978-1-7809-3006-0, (hbk); 978-1-7809-3092-3 (pbk); 978-1-7809-3008-4 (ebk).9
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race7
Blocking Progress to Save Economic Imperialism6
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?6
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner6
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism5
Reply to Moehler4
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary4
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives4
Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making4
Proportionality and Nonreductive Explanations in the Social Sciences3
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims3
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth3
Applying Evidential Pluralism to Justify Legal Responses to Online Fake News3
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census2
Metatheoretical Distinctions in Theories of Functional Differentiation: Delineating Alternative Traditions2
Replies and Responses II2
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science2
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences2
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs2
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization1
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels” –– The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper1
Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology and Ernest Gellner’s Critique of the Modern Social Sciences1
A Novel Type of Precautionary Argument for Situations of Severe Uncertainty in Science and Policy1
Challenges to Humanism1
Book Review: Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science TsilipakosLeonidas. Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science. Routledge, 2025. 220 pp. ISBN: 978-1-032-86778-6 (hbk); 971
Process Tracing and the Problem of Evaluating Causal Relationships Within a Case1
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History1
Are There Really Social Causes?1
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity1
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science1
Niche Construction and the Politics of Language1
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology1
The Fact of the Matter About the Post-Truth Condition: Response to Sassower1
All we Are Saying: Joseph Agassi’s Application of Critical Rationalism to Political Science1
Do We Have to Choose Between Different Concepts of Social Structure? A Comparative Analysis of Approaches and Ideas From Nigel Pleasants, Douglas V. Porpora, and David Easton1
Narratives and the Member’s Perspective: Toward an Inter-Narrative Approach to Social Collectives1
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism1
Historical Kinds in the Social World1
Kant on Labor Relations: An Account of Economic Dependence from the Perspective of Social Philosophy1
Book Review: To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation FullerSteveTo Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation . Springer,1
The Problem of Apparently Irrational AI1
What Is Methodological Individualism? Anatomy of a Controversy0
Review Essay: Limits of the Numerical and the Personalized Measurement Trend in Mental Health Care0
Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology0
Book Review: The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science? LerouxRobertMartinThierryTurnerStephen, eds. The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?Routledge, 2023. 0
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science0
Conspiracy Theories and Anxiety in Culture: Why is Threat-Related Misinformation an Evolved Product of Our Ability to Mobilize Sources in the Face of Un-represented Threat?0
Smart Transcendentalism or Trained Incapacity? Response to Little0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei0
The Explanatory Power of Discourse Analysis0
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Localizing the Structure-Culture Dialectic0
Comment on Wettersten0
On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey0
Costs and Benefits of Diverse Plurality in Economics0
Information Poverty0
Managing Performative Models0
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic0
Agassi’s Contribution to the History of Science0
Measurement, Race, and Anti-Realism0
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind: From the Social Sciences to Gödel0
Editorial Introduction: Pragmatic Reason in Kant’s Anthropology and in the Modern Social Sciences0
Précis of Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View0
Book Review: A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture0
Modeling the Normativity of Joint Commitments0
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin0
Agassi’s “Sensationalism” and Popper on the Empirical Basis0
Transparency, Collective Intentionality, and Social Power: Commentary on Burman’s Nonideal Social Ontology0
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction0
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences0
Agassi’s Treatment of Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Critical Rationalism and Institutional Individualism0
Praxeology: A Critical Appraisal0
Kinds Before Their Concepts: Practical Anchoring and Conceptual Opacity in the Historiography of Race0
Book Review: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt0
A Science and Technology Studies Challenge to Trustworthiness Criteria: Toward a More Naturalistic Approach0
Corrigendum0
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology0
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications0
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko0
Ontological Individualism Defended0
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?0
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction0
Kant’s Anthropological Pragmatism and the Anthropological Foundations of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy0
On Negative Powers and On Standard Nonideal Theorists: Comments on Åsa Burman’s Nonideal Social Ontology0
Agassi on Morality and Ethics0
Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements0
Replies and Responses0
Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments0
What Is Non-Inevitable?0
Instrumentalism in the Social and Moral Sciences0
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money0
Agassi on Technology0
Book Review: Games to Play and Games Not to Play: Strategic Decisions via Extensions of Game Theory WeissUriAgassiJosephGames to Play and Games Not to Play: Strategic Decisions via Extensions of Game 0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism0
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond0
Nudging as Informing0
On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing0
Nonideal Social Ontology and Explanation of Statistical Facts: Comments on Åsa Burman0
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?0
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation0
Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race0
Reply to Michael Lynch’s Comment on “Is Representation a ‘Folk’ Term?”0
Foundationalism About Wellbeing Measurement: A Defense0
Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism: Volume I0
Analytic Philosophy’s Discovery of What It Can Be0
An Analytical Approach to Culture0
Book Review: The Philosophy and Practice of Science0
Corrigendum0
Toward an Enactivist Account of What Constitutes Collective Action0
Popper and Agassi at Odds0
In Time, or Too Late, for Kant? Kant-Derived Cosmopolitan Theory Beyond Post-Colonial Critique0
Stories and Big Data: The Possibility of Narrative Explanations at Scale0
Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney0
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation0
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling0
Collective Intentionality, Individualism, and the Place of Children in Social Theorizing0
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid0
Replies to Critics0
The Mystery of Missing Psychometric Corpus : The Case of the Technological Cart Before the Scientific Horse0
Book Review: Chinese Social Credit: Researches on Theory, Evidence and Countermeasures0
Why Are “Microfoundations” Irrelevant? An Argument for Reorienting the Debate0
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