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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Anthropological Epochés: Phenomenology and the Ontological Turn21
Anthropology without Belief: An Anti-representationalist Ontological Turn11
A Brief (Hi)Story of Just-So Stories in Evolutionary Science9
Puzzled by Idealizations and Understanding Their Functions8
The Shapes of Relations: Anthropology as Conceptual Morphology8
Concrete Ontology: Comments on Lauer, Little, and Lohse8
Social Ontology De-dramatized7
Valid for What? On the Very Idea of Unconditional Validity7
Normative Models and Their Success6
Organizations as Actors: Microfoundations of Organizational Intentionality6
Ontological Investigations of a Pragmatic Kind? A Reply to Lauer5
Context in Mechanism-Based Explanation5
Instrumentalizing and Naturalizing Social Ontology: Replies to Lohse and Little5
Max Weber and Social Ontology5
Permanent Revolution In Science: A Quantum Epistemology5
Comment on Martin Hammersley, “Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term?”4
Descriptive Accuracy in History: The Case of Narrative Explanations4
Ways to Be Understood: The Ontological Turn and Interpretive Social Science4
Cultural Evolutionary Theory and the Significance of the Biology-Culture Analogy4
“All the Difference in the World”: The Nature of Difference and Different Natures4
Multiplicity of Ontologies: Lakes and Humans in Siberia4
On the Individuation of Choice Options4
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science3
On the Ontological Turn in Economics: The Promises of Agent-Based Computational Economics3
Mathematical Models and Robustness Analysis in Epistemic Democracy: A Systematic Review of Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem Models3
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind: From the Social Sciences to Gödel2
Thick Concepts in Economics: The Case of Becker and Murphy’s Theory of Rational Addiction2
A model-based approach to social ontology2
Evidential Pluralism and Epistemic Reliability in Political Science: Deciphering Contradictions between Process Tracing Methodologies2
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 Commons2
Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term? Some Thoughts on a Theme in Science Studies2
Peter Winch and the Autonomy of the Social Sciences2
Abstract Society in the Time of Plague2
Explaining Ideology: Mechanisms and Metaphysics2
The Source of Epistemic Normativity: Scientific Change as an Explanatory Problem2
An Analytical Approach to Culture2
Popper and Agassi at Odds2
How to Build an Institution2
Shared Intentionality and Automatic Imitation: The case ofLa Ola2
Should Anyone Care about Scientific Progress?2
Managing Performative Models1
Multilevel Modeling and the Explanatory Autonomy of Psychology1
Are There Really Social Causes?1
All we Are Saying: Joseph Agassi’s Application of Critical Rationalism to Political Science1
When Experiments Need Models1
Pigden Revisited, or In Defence of Popper’s Critique of the Conspiracy Theory of Society1
A Critique of Searle’s Linguistic Exceptionalism1
Agassi on Morality and Ethics1
How to Put the Cart Behind the Horse in the Cultural Evolution of Gender1
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond1
Institutions and Scientific Progress1
Replies and Responses II1
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims1
Defending De-idealization in Economic Modeling: A Case Study1
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?0
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science0
Agassi’s “Sensationalism” and Popper on the Empirical Basis0
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko0
Rationality Assumptions and their Limits0
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives0
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels”––The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper0
Treading Water to Stay in the Same Place*0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs0
The Fact of the Matter About the Post-Truth Condition: Response to Sassower0
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling0
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation0
Replies and Responses0
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth0
Comment on Wettersten0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei0
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?0
A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today’s Institutional Problems0
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin0
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization0
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction0
Challenges to Humanism0
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History0
The Social Epistemology of Scientific Dissent: Responding to William Lynch’s Minority Report0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences0
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies0
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary0
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism0
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology0
Agassi on Technology0
Science without the Romance0
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism0
Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements0
Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney0
Corrigendum0
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications0
Interventionism and Over-Time Causal Analysis in Social Sciences0
Corrigendum0
Book Review: A Sceptical Theory of Scientific Inquiry: Problems and Their Progress by LB Briskman0
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences0
Book Review: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt0
Agassi’s Contribution to the History of Science0
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches0
Popper and Kuhn: A Different Retrospect0
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?0
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction0
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism0
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic0
Science sans Subjectivity: The Sad Case of Imre Lakatos0
What Is Non-Inevitable?0
CORRIGENDUM to Mathematical Models and Robustness Analysis in Epistemic Democracy: A Systematic Review of Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem Models0
Agassi’s Treatment of Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Critical Rationalism and Institutional Individualism0
Book Review: Chinese Social Credit: Researches on Theory, Evidence and Countermeasures0
Book Review: Review of King Gods of the Upper Air. How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King0
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology0
Social Ontology and Model-Building: A Response to Epstein0
Reply to Michael Lynch’s Comment on “Is Representation a ‘Folk’ Term?”0
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money0
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner0
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid0
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity0
Sawyer’s Theory of Social Causation: A Critique0
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census0
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science0
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs0
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
Joseph Agassi’s Contribution to Philosophy0
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds0
Dissent and Diversity in Science and Technology Studies: Reply to Fuller, Kasavin and Shipovalova, and Turner0
What, If Anything, is the Philosophy of Political Science?0
What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose0
Jeremy Bentham’s Social Ontology: Fictionality, Factuality and Language Critique0
The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality0
Historical Kinds in the Social World0
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