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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds11
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race9
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).9
How Can Skeptics Help Venture Capitalists?9
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research7
The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology7
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner6
Blocking Progress to Save Economic Imperialism6
Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making5
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives5
Reply to Moehler4
Are Social Kinds Vague and Does It Matter?4
Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary3
Book Review: Post-Truth 2.0: The High Stakes of Testing Truth Claims3
Proportionality and Nonreductive Explanations in the Social Sciences3
Applying Evidential Pluralism to Justify Legal Responses to Online Fake News3
Philosophical Practice and Agassi’s Approach to Practical Affairs2
The Return of the Repressed: Subject, Truth and Critique in Times of Post-Truth2
Legitimate Reactivity in Measuring Social Phenomena: Race and the Census2
Instrumental Rationality in the Social Sciences2
A Novel Type of Precautionary Argument for Situations of Severe Uncertainty in Science and Policy1
Challenges to Humanism1
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science1
Metaphysical Perspectives and Their Role in Science1
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
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 Easton1
Niche Construction and the Politics of Language1
Replies and Responses II1
One Step Forward From Agassi’s Inquiries on Logic: A Fallibilist Logic for Critical Rationalism1
Social Ontology and the Identification of Generic Performativity in Social Science: A Case of Performative Financialization1
The Unarticulated Existential Body: Embracing Embodiment and Representation in the Ethnographic Model of Objectivity1
The Problem of Apparently Irrational AI1
Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology and Ernest Gellner’s Critique of the Modern Social Sciences1
Historical Kinds in the Social World1
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); 971
Metatheoretical Distinctions in Theories of Functional Differentiation: Delineating Alternative Traditions1
Kant on Labor Relations: An Account of Economic Dependence from the Perspective of Social Philosophy1
Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology1
Process Tracing and the Problem of Evaluating Causal Relationships Within a Case1
Book Review: Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History1
Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko0
On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey0
Phenomenology, Cultural Meaning, and the Curious Case of Suicide: Localizing the Structure-Culture Dialectic0
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation0
Agassi on Morality and Ethics0
Toward an Enactivist Account of What Constitutes Collective Action0
Replies and Responses0
Are There Really Social Causes?0
Stanley Milgram’s Purloined Letter: A Plea for a Normative Interpretation of the “Obedience to Authority” Experiments0
Introduction: “Bringing Philosophy to New Levels” –– The Intersection of Philosophy of Life With Philosophy Proper0
Stories and Big Data: The Possibility of Narrative Explanations at Scale0
The Mystery of Missing Psychometric Corpus : The Case of the Technological Cart Before the Scientific Horse0
Managing Performative Models0
Agassi’s “Sensationalism” and Popper on the Empirical Basis0
Book Review: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements0
On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing0
Ontological Individualism Defended0
What Is Methodological Individualism? Anatomy of a Controversy0
Why Are “Microfoundations” Irrelevant? An Argument for Reorienting the Debate0
Review Essay: Limits of the Numerical and the Personalized Measurement Trend in Mental Health Care0
Economic Models in the Wild: Analyzing the Argumentative Functions of Models in Policy Contexts0
On Negative Powers and On Standard Nonideal Theorists: Comments on Åsa Burman’s Nonideal Social Ontology0
We Have Big Data, But Do We Need Big Theory? Review-Based Remarks on an Emerging Problem in the Social Sciences0
What Should Contractarian Economists Do?0
Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin0
Kant’s Anthropological Pragmatism and the Anthropological Foundations of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy0
How Evidential Pluralism Mitigates Epistemic Injustice in Evidence-Based Evaluation0
Book Review: The Philosophy and Practice of Science0
Nonideal Social Ontology and Explanation of Statistical Facts: Comments on Åsa Burman0
Social Norms and Agent Types: Bridging the Gap Between the Theoretical Models and Their Applications0
Can Critical Rationalism Become a Philosophy of Life?0
Corrigendum0
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
Inseparable Bedfellows: Imagination and Mathematics in Economic Modeling0
Book Review: To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation FullerSteveTo Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation . Springer,0
Collective Intentionality, Individualism, and the Place of Children in Social Theorizing0
Modeling the Normativity of Joint Commitments0
Replies to Critics0
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
Instrumentalism in the Social and Moral Sciences0
Book Review: A Social Philosophy of Science: An Introduction0
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches0
Précis of Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View0
Nudging as Informing0
Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science0
Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism: Volume I0
What Is Non-Inevitable?0
Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic0
Ontological Anti-Foundationalism in Sociology0
Kant’s Anthropology in the Debates on Anthropological Deficits of Contemporary Sociology0
In Time, or Too Late, for Kant? Kant-Derived Cosmopolitan Theory Beyond Post-Colonial Critique0
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
Robert K. Merton, Cudos and Magical Thinking in the Age of Covid0
Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney0
The Explanatory Power of Discourse Analysis0
Foundationalism About Wellbeing Measurement: A Defense0
Information Poverty0
Costs and Benefits of Diverse Plurality in Economics0
A Science and Technology Studies Challenge to Trustworthiness Criteria: Toward a More Naturalistic Approach0
Between Fallibilism and the Siblinghood of Humanity: A Review of Joseph Agassi, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction0
Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race0
Editorial Introduction: Pragmatic Reason in Kant’s Anthropology and in the Modern Social Sciences0
Narratives and the Member’s Perspective: Toward an Inter-Narrative Approach to Social Collectives0
Book Review: A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture0
Assessing Modern Monetary Theory’s Peculiar Ontology of Money0
Analytic Philosophy’s Discovery of What It Can Be0
Book Review: Agassi on Gattei0
Measurement, Race, and Anti-Realism0
Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation0
Book Review: The Chinese People’s Customs0
Corrigendum0
Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond0
Kinds Before Their Concepts: Practical Anchoring and Conceptual Opacity in the Historiography of Race0
Transparency, Collective Intentionality, and Social Power: Commentary on Burman’s Nonideal Social Ontology0
An Analytical Approach to Culture0
Praxeology: A Critical Appraisal0
Rethinking Ontological Individualism0
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: Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt0
Smart Transcendentalism or Trained Incapacity? Response to Little0
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