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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism9
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research4
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation3
On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing3
The Social Epistemology of Scientific Dissent: Responding to William Lynch’s Minority Report3
The Building Blocks of Social Trust: The Role of Customary Mechanisms and Property Relations for the Emergence of Social Trust in the Context of the Commons3
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds2
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race2
Niche Construction and the Politics of Language2
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction2
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?2
Book Review: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt2
The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality2
A Science and Technology Studies Challenge to Trustworthiness Criteria: Toward a More Naturalistic Approach2
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin2
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?2
Costs and Benefits of Diverse Plurality in Economics1
Comment on Wettersten1
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications1
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?1
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond1
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches1
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity1
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science1
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives1
Reply to Michael Lynch’s Comment on “Is Representation a ‘Folk’ Term?”1
Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology1
When Experiments Need Models1
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology1
Defending De-idealization in Economic Modeling: A Case Study1
Treading Water to Stay in the Same Place*1
Reply to Moehler1
Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology and Ernest Gellner’s Critique of the Modern Social Sciences1
Agassi’s Treatment of Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Critical Rationalism and Institutional Individualism1
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science1
Rationality Assumptions and their Limits0
Jeremy Bentham’s Social Ontology: Fictionality, Factuality and Language Critique0
Book Review: A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture0
Book Review: To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation0
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism0
Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism: Volume I0
Agassi’s Contribution to the History of Science0
Book Review: The Philosophy and Practice of Science0
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko0
All we Are Saying: Joseph Agassi’s Application of Critical Rationalism to Political Science0
Instrumentalism in the Social and Moral Sciences0
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation0
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization0
Corrigendum0
The Fact of the Matter About the Post-Truth Condition: Response to Sassower0
In Time, or Too Late, for Kant? Kant-Derived Cosmopolitan Theory Beyond Post-Colonial Critique0
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid0
Agassi’s “Sensationalism” and Popper on the Empirical Basis0
Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term? Some Thoughts on a Theme in Science Studies0
Agassi on Technology0
Science without the Romance0
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind: From the Social Sciences to Gödel0
Managing Performative Models0
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction0
What Is Non-Inevitable?0
Are There Really Social Causes?0
Peter Winch and the Autonomy of the Social Sciences0
Thick Concepts in Economics: The Case of Becker and Murphy’s Theory of Rational Addiction0
Review Essay: Limits of the Numerical and the Personalized Measurement Trend in Mental Health Care0
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences0
Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney0
Replies and Responses0
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs0
How to Put the Cart Behind the Horse in the Cultural Evolution of Gender0
Kant on Labor Relations: An Account of Economic Dependence from the Perspective of Social Philosophy0
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth0
Toward an Enactivist Account of What Constitutes Collective Action0
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner0
Applying Evidential Pluralism to Justify Legal Responses to Online Fake News0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs0
Evidential Pluralism and Epistemic Reliability in Political Science: Deciphering Contradictions between Process Tracing Methodologies0
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims0
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census0
The Explanatory Power of Discourse Analysis0
Historical Kinds in the Social World0
Metatheoretical Distinctions in Theories of Functional Differentiation: Delineating Alternative Traditions0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism0
Pigden Revisited, or In Defence of Popper’s Critique of the Conspiracy Theory of Society0
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money0
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?0
Comment on Martin Hammersley, “Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term?”0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences0
Popper and Agassi at Odds0
Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments0
CORRIGENDUM to Mathematical Models and Robustness Analysis in Epistemic Democracy: A Systematic Review of Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem Models0
Book Review: Chinese Social Credit: Researches on Theory, Evidence and Countermeasures0
A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today’s Institutional Problems0
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei0
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic0
Editorial Introduction: Pragmatic Reason in Kant’s Anthropology and in the Modern Social Sciences0
Dissent and Diversity in Science and Technology Studies: Reply to Fuller, Kasavin and Shipovalova, and Turner0
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies0
Interventionism and Over-Time Causal Analysis in Social Sciences0
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary0
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History0
Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making0
Kant’s Anthropological Pragmatism and the Anthropological Foundations of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy0
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels”––The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper0
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Localizing the Structure-Culture Dialectic0
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
Corrigendum0
An Analytical Approach to Culture0
Replies and Responses II0
A model-based approach to social ontology0
Challenges to Humanism0
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling0
Agassi on Morality and Ethics0
Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements0
What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose0
Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race0
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology0
Joseph Agassi’s Contribution to Philosophy0
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