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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds11
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
Restricted Racial Realism: Heterogeneous Effects and the Instability of Race9
The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology7
Concepts in Context: Ontological Coherence in Political Science Research7
Blocking Progress to Save Economic Imperialism6
Causal vs. Conceptual Heterogeneity: Reply to Turner6
Foresight as Consolation: Kant on the Capability of Future Making5
Book Review: Economizing Our Lives5
Are Social Kinds Vague and Does It Matter?4
Reply to Moehler4
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
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
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
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