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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Normative Models and Their Success9
Valid for What? On the Very Idea of Unconditional Validity8
Evidential Pluralism and Epistemic Reliability in Political Science: Deciphering Contradictions between Process Tracing Methodologies8
Context in Mechanism-Based Explanation6
Max Weber and Social Ontology5
Comment on Martin Hammersley, “Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term?”4
Cultural Evolutionary Theory and the Significance of the Biology-Culture Analogy4
Thick Concepts in Economics: The Case of Becker and Murphy’s Theory of Rational Addiction3
Defending De-idealization in Economic Modeling: A Case Study3
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science3
The Source of Epistemic Normativity: Scientific Change as an Explanatory Problem3
The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality2
An Analytical Approach to Culture2
Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term? Some Thoughts on a Theme in Science Studies2
Are There Really Social Causes?2
A model-based approach to social ontology2
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
Institutions and Scientific Progress2
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences2
Popper and Agassi at Odds2
What, If Anything, is the Philosophy of Political Science?2
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind: From the Social Sciences to Gödel2
Peter Winch and the Autonomy of the Social Sciences2
How to Build an Institution2
Pigden Revisited, or In Defence of Popper’s Critique of the Conspiracy Theory of Society1
Social Ontology and Model-Building: A Response to Epstein1
Replies and Responses II1
Agassi’s Contribution to the History of Science1
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims1
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation1
Managing Performative Models1
What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose1
Popper and Kuhn: A Different Retrospect1
Agassi on Morality and Ethics1
All we Are Saying: Joseph Agassi’s Application of Critical Rationalism to Political Science1
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond1
A Critique of Searle’s Linguistic Exceptionalism1
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology1
Jeremy Bentham’s Social Ontology: Fictionality, Factuality and Language Critique1
How to Put the Cart Behind the Horse in the Cultural Evolution of Gender1
Book Review: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt1
When Experiments Need Models1
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic0
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money0
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds0
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity0
Corrigendum0
Comment on Wettersten0
Interventionism and Over-Time Causal Analysis in Social Sciences0
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner0
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth0
Joseph Agassi’s Contribution to Philosophy0
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation0
What Is Non-Inevitable?0
Treading Water to Stay in the Same Place*0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism0
Costs and Benefits of Diverse Plurality in Economics0
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction0
Challenges to Humanism0
A Science and Technology Studies Challenge to Trustworthiness Criteria: Toward a More Naturalistic Approach0
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
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin0
Agassi on Technology0
Replies and Responses0
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research0
Proliferation Update. Testing the Science and Technology Studies Mainstream Through Current Science’s Controversies0
Corrigendum0
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction0
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs0
The Social Epistemology of Scientific Dissent: Responding to William Lynch’s Minority Report0
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology0
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling0
Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney0
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization0
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei0
Review Essay: Limits of the Numerical and the Personalized Measurement Trend in Mental Health Care0
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives0
Historical Kinds in the Social World0
Reply to Michael Lynch’s Comment on “Is Representation a ‘Folk’ Term?”0
Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments0
The Explanatory Power of Discourse Analysis0
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs0
Science without the Romance0
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?0
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
Instrumentalism in the Social and Moral Sciences0
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches0
Applying Evidential Pluralism to Justify Legal Responses to Online Fake News0
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels”––The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper0
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism0
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History0
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census0
On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing0
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary0
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid0
Science sans Subjectivity: The Sad Case of Imre Lakatos0
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism0
Sawyer’s Theory of Social Causation: A Critique0
The Fact of the Matter About the Post-Truth Condition: Response to Sassower0
A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today’s Institutional Problems0
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Localizing the Structure-Culture Dialectic0
Dissent and Diversity in Science and Technology Studies: Reply to Fuller, Kasavin and Shipovalova, and Turner0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences0
Book Review: A Sceptical Theory of Scientific Inquiry: Problems and Their Progress by LB Briskman0
Book Review: A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture0
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications0
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
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
Rationality Assumptions and their Limits0
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?0
Book Review: The Philosophy and Practice of Science0
Book Reviews0
Agassi’s Treatment of Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Critical Rationalism and Institutional Individualism0
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?0
Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements0
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science0
0.033353090286255