Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophy of the Social Sciences is 1. 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
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds4
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race4
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism4
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?4
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research4
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies3
Reply to Moehler3
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
Replies and Responses II2
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
What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose1
Challenges to Humanism1
Historical Kinds in the Social World1
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
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