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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?	10
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds	9
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research	7
Blocking Progress to Save Economic Imperialism	7
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race	6
Book Review: Media and the Power of Knowledge Steve Fuller. Media and the Power of Knowledge. Bloomsbury, 2026.240 pp. ISBN: 978-1-7809-3006-0, (hbk); 978-1-7809-3092-3 (pbk); 978-1-7809-3008-4 (ebk).	6
Reply to Moehler	5
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner	4
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives	4
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims	4
Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making	4
The Pedagogical Perils and Promises of Critical Rationalism	4
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs	3
Applying Evidential Pluralism to Justify Legal Responses to Online Fake News	3
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary	3
Proportionality and Nonreductive Explanations in the Social Sciences	3
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science	2
Kant on Labor Relations: An Account of Economic Dependence from the Perspective of Social Philosophy	2
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences	2
Metatheoretical Distinctions in Theories of Functional Differentiation: Delineating Alternative Traditions	2
Challenges to Humanism	2
Replies and Responses II	2
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth	2
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census	2
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology	1

Narratives and the Member’s Perspective: Toward an Inter-Narrative Approach to Social Collectives	1
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization	1
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	1
All we Are Saying: Joseph Agassi’s Application of Critical Rationalism to Political Science	1
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism	1
A Novel Type of Precautionary Argument for Situations of Severe Uncertainty in Science and Policy	1
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science	1
Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology and Ernest Gellner’s Critique of the Modern Social Sciences	1
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History	1
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 Easton	1
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels”––The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper	1
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity	1
Niche Construction and the Politics of Language	1
Book Review: Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science TsilipakosLeonidas. Historical Understanding and Ethics in Social Science. Routledge, 2025. 220 pp. ISBN: 978-1-032-86778-6 (hbk); 97	1
Process Tracing and the Problem of Evaluating Causal Relationships Within a Case	1
The Problem of Apparently Irrational AI	1
Are There Really Social Causes?	1
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money	1
The Fact of the Matter About the Post-Truth Condition: Response to Sassower	1
Historical Kinds in the Social World	1
A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today’s Institutional Problems	0
Nudging as Informing	0
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin	0
Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism: Volume I	0
Review Essay: Limits of the Numerical and the Personalized Measurement Trend in Mental Health Care	0
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?	0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism	0
Praxeology: A Critical Appraisal	0
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
Agassi’s “Sensationalism” and Popper on the Empirical Basis	0
Kant’s Anthropological Pragmatism and the Anthropological Foundations of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy	0
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation	0
What Is Non-Inevitable?	0
An Analytical Approach to Culture	0
Book Review: The Philosophy and Practice of Science	0
Jeremy Bentham’s Social Ontology: Fictionality, Factuality and Language Critique	0
Agassi’s Treatment of Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Critical Rationalism and Institutional Individualism	0
Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race	0
Popper and Agassi at Odds	0
In Time, or Too Late, for Kant? Kant-Derived Cosmopolitan Theory Beyond Post-Colonial Critique	0
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications	0
What Is Methodological Individualism? Anatomy of a Controversy	0
Agassi’s Contribution to the History of Science	0
Foundationalism About Wellbeing Measurement: A Defense	0
Replies to Critics	0
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic	0
Book Review: A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture	0
On Negative Powers and On Standard Nonideal Theorists: Comments on Åsa Burman’s Nonideal Social Ontology	0
Précis of Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View	0
Agassi on Technology	0

Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements	0
Transparency, Collective Intentionality, and Social Power: Commentary on Burman’s Nonideal Social Ontology	0
Instrumentalism in the Social and Moral Sciences	0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences	0
The Mystery of Missing Psychometric Corpus : The Case of the Technological Cart Before the Scientific Horse	0
Reply to Michael Lynch’s Comment on “Is Representation a ‘Folk’ Term?”	0
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
On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing	0
On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey	0
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond	0
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology	0
Why Are “Microfoundations” Irrelevant? An Argument for Reorienting the Debate	0
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko	0
Corrigendum	0
Smart Transcendentalism or Trained Incapacity? Response to Little	0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei	0
Agassi on Morality and Ethics	0
Comment on Martin Hammersley, “Is ‘Representation’ a Folk Term?”	0
Costs and Benefits of Diverse Plurality in Economics	0
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid	0
Comment on Wettersten	0
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation	0
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind: From the Social Sciences to Gödel	0
Toward an Enactivist Account of What Constitutes Collective Action	0
Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments	0
Stories and Big Data: The Possibility of Narrative Explanations at Scale	0
Editorial Introduction: Pragmatic Reason in Kant’s Anthropology and in the Modern Social Sciences	0
Book Review: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt	0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs	0
Nonideal Social Ontology and Explanation of Statistical Facts: Comments on Åsa Burman	0
Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology	0
Managing Performative Models	0
Modeling the Normativity of Joint Commitments	0
The Explanatory Power of Discourse Analysis	0
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction	0
Measurement, Race, and Anti-Realism	0
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches	0
Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney	0
Ontological Individualism Defended	0
Collective Intentionality, Individualism, and the Place of Children in Social Theorizing	0
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science	0
Information Poverty	0
Book Review: Chinese Social Credit: Researches on Theory, Evidence and Countermeasures	0
A Science and Technology Studies Challenge to Trustworthiness Criteria: Toward a More Naturalistic Approach	0
Book Review: The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science? LerouxRobertMartinThierryTurnerStephen, eds. The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?Routledge, 2023.	0
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction	0
Analytic Philosophy’s Discovery of What It Can Be	0
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Localizing the Structure-Culture Dialectic	0
Corrigendum	0
Replies and Responses	0
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?	0
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling	0