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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Normative Models and Their Success9
Evidential Pluralism and Epistemic Reliability in Political Science: Deciphering Contradictions between Process Tracing Methodologies8
Valid for What? On the Very Idea of Unconditional Validity8
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
Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science3
The Source of Epistemic Normativity: Scientific Change as an Explanatory Problem3
Thick Concepts in Economics: The Case of Becker and Murphy’s Theory of Rational Addiction3
Defending De-idealization in Economic Modeling: A Case Study3
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
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
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
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
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