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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality6
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism4
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?4
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research4
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds4
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race4
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary3
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner3
Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making3
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives3
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies3
Reply to Moehler3
Applying Evidential Pluralism to Justify Legal Responses to Online Fake News2
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs2
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census2
Joseph Agassi’s Contribution to Philosophy2
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science2
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences2
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims2
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth2
Replies and Responses II2
A Novel Type of Precautionary Argument for Situations of Severe Uncertainty in Science and Policy1
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology1
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization1
Niche Construction and the Politics of Language1
Rationality Assumptions and their Limits1
Kant on Labor Relations: An Account of Economic Dependence from the Perspective of Social Philosophy1
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism1
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
Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology and Ernest Gellner’s Critique of the Modern Social Sciences1
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science1
Metatheoretical Distinctions in Theories of Functional Differentiation: Delineating Alternative Traditions1
The Social Epistemology of Scientific Dissent: Responding to William Lynch’s Minority Report1
Are There Really Social Causes?1
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity1
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History1
What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose1
Challenges to Humanism1
Historical Kinds in the Social World1
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction0
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications0
Review Essay: Limits of the Numerical and the Personalized Measurement Trend in Mental Health Care0
Costs and Benefits of Diverse Plurality in Economics0
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction0
Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements0
Toward an Enactivist Account of What Constitutes Collective Action0
Comment on Martin Hammersley, “Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term?”0
Dissent and Diversity in Science and Technology Studies: Reply to Fuller, Kasavin and Shipovalova, and Turner0
On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences0
Book Review: To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation FullerSteveTo Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation . Springer, 2024. xiii+194 0
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?0
Book Review: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt0
Modeling the Normativity of Joint Commitments0
In Time, or Too Late, for Kant? Kant-Derived Cosmopolitan Theory Beyond Post-Colonial Critique0
The Explanatory Power of Discourse Analysis0
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
Book Review: The Philosophy and Practice of Science0
Book Review: The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science? Thierry MartinRobert LerouxTurnerStephen eds. The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?Routledge, 2023.0
Agassi’s Contribution to the History of Science0
Agassi on Morality and Ethics0
What Is Methodological Individualism? Anatomy of a Controversy0
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind: From the Social Sciences to Gödel0
A Science and Technology Studies Challenge to Trustworthiness Criteria: Toward a More Naturalistic Approach0
Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments0
Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology0
Book Review: Chinese Social Credit: Researches on Theory, Evidence and Countermeasures0
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Localizing the Structure-Culture Dialectic0
Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism: Volume I0
Foundationalism About Wellbeing Measurement: A Defense0
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs0
CORRIGENDUM to Mathematical Models and Robustness Analysis in Epistemic Democracy: A Systematic Review of Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem Models0
Science without the Romance0
Peter Winch and the Autonomy of the Social Sciences0
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science0
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology0
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money0
Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race0
Reply to Michael Lynch’s Comment on “Is Representation a ‘Folk’ Term?”0
How to Put the Cart Behind the Horse in the Cultural Evolution of Gender0
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin0
Jeremy Bentham’s Social Ontology: Fictionality, Factuality and Language Critique0
Book Review: A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture0
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko0
Corrigendum0
Popper and Agassi at Odds0
Replies and Responses0
An Analytical Approach to Culture0
Editorial Introduction: Pragmatic Reason in Kant’s Anthropology and in the Modern Social Sciences0
A model-based approach to social ontology0
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic0
Smart Transcendentalism or Trained Incapacity? Response to Little0
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
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond0
Interventionism and Over-Time Causal Analysis in Social Sciences0
Agassi’s Treatment of Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Critical Rationalism and Institutional Individualism0
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches0
Instrumentalism in the Social and Moral Sciences0
Defending De-idealization in Economic Modeling: A Case Study0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism0
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 Easton0
Agassi’s “Sensationalism” and Popper on the Empirical Basis0
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
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels”––The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper0
A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today’s Institutional Problems0
Kant’s Anthropological Pragmatism and the Anthropological Foundations of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy0
Pigden Revisited, or In Defence of Popper’s Critique of the Conspiracy Theory of Society0
Comment on Wettersten0
Corrigendum0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei0
Agassi on Technology0
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid0
Managing Performative Models0
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling0
What Is Non-Inevitable?0
Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term? Some Thoughts on a Theme in Science Studies0
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?0
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