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Contact SAGE Search all journals Search this journal Advanced Search Philosophy of the Social Sciences 0.604 Impact Factor 5-Year Impact Factor 0.667 Journal Indexing & Metrics » Journal Home Browse Journal Current Issue OnlineFirst Accepted Manuscripts All Issues Free Sample Journal Info Journal Description Aims and Scope Editorial Board Submission Guidelines Abstracting/Indexing Reprints Journal Permissions Subscribe Recommend to Library Advertising & Promotion Stay Connected Email Alerts RSS Feed Feedback / Contact SAGE Submit Paper Search Previous slide < About this journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences (POS), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, has served as the international, interdisciplinary forum for current research, theory, and debate on the philosophical foundations of the social sciences for 40 years. POS focuses on the central issues of the social sciences, including general methodology, the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality, and the history of theories and concepts. More Next slide > All Issues Current Issue OnlineFirst Latest Articles Most Read Most Cited Articles most recently published online for this journal. Book Review Sheldon Richmond Feb 2020 - OnlineFirst First published: 06 Feb 2020 Book Review: Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue by Michi... Raphael Sassower Mar 2020 - Vol 50 , Issue 2 First published: 04 Feb 2020 Raymond Aron’s Contributions Joseph Agassi Dec 2019 - OnlineFirst First published: 25 Dec 2019 Social Construction, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories Jonathan Y. Tsou Mar 2020 - Vol 50 , Issue 2 First published: 25 Dec 2019 Optimism for Naturalized Social Metaphysics: A Reply to Hawley Daniel Saunders Mar 2020 - Vol 50 , Issue 2 First published: 25 Dec 2019 Model Pluralism Walter Veit Mar 2020 - Vol 50 , Issue 2 First published: 19 Dec 2019 Two Strands of Field Experiments in Economics: A Historical-Methodological Analysis Michiru Nagatsu, Judith Favereau Jan 2020 - Vol 50 , Issue 1 First published: 10 Dec 2019 Science as Gift, or Knowledge as the Offer That Cannot be Refused: Introducing Russian Science ... Steve Fuller Dec 2019 - Vol 49 , Issue 6 First published: 03 Nov 2019 The Influence of Felix Kaufmann’s Methodology on Harold Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology Martyn Hammersley Jan 2020 - Vol 50 , Issue 1 First published: 01 Nov 2019 View More View Less View all OnlineFirst articles > View current issue > Most read articles in this journal in the last 6 months. That's Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology Murray S. Davis Jun 1971 - Vol 1 , Issue 2 First published: 01 Jun 1971 Views: 1094 Citations: 606 Qualitative Research Methods and Evidential Reasoning Corrado Matta Sep 2019 - Vol 49 , Issue 5 First published: 25 Jul 2019 Views: 1014 Citations: 0 Ordinary Men: Genocide, Determinism, Agency, and Moral Culpability Nigel Pleasants Jan 2018 - Vol 48 , Issue 1 First published: 16 Nov 2017 Views: 863 Citations: 1 Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities Sylvia Walby Dec 2007 - Vol 37 , Issue 4 First published: 01 Dec 2007 Views: 596 Citations: 195 Interpretivism and Causal Explanations: A Case from Educational Research Corrado Matta Dec 2015 - Vol 45 , Issue 6 First published: 29 Jul 2015 Views: 586 Citations: 0 Relativism and the Ontological Turn within Anthropology Martin Paleček, Mark Risjord Mar 2013 - Vol 43 , Issue 1 First published: 17 Oct 2012 Views: 544 Citations: 51 Pragmatism, Ontology, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Practice Simon Lohse Jan 2017 - Vol 47 , Issue 1 First published: 23 Jun 2016 Views: 542 Citations: 8 Ontology, Epistemology, and Multimethod Research in Political Science Abhishek Chatterjee Mar 2013 - Vol 43 , Issue 1 First published: 05 Aug 2011 Views: 473 Citations: 11 The Importance of Jean Piaget Christina E. Erneling Jul 2014 - Vol 44 , Issue 4 First published: 13 Aug 2012 Views: 459 Citations: 0 View More View Less View all OnlineFirst articles > View current issue > View more most read articles > Most cited articles published in this journal in the last 3 years. These statistics are updated weekly using data sourced exclusively from CrossRef . Are Measures of Well-Being Philosophically Adequate? Willem van der Deijl Jun 2017 - Vol 47 , Issue 3 First published: 19 Dec 2016 Citations: 8 Views: 855 The Roles that Otto Selz and Karl Popper Played in 20th-Century Psychology and Philosophy of Science John Wettersten Jun 2017 - Vol 47 , Issue 3 First published: 08 Mar 2016 Citations: 4 Views: 305 We-Narratives and the Stability and Depth of Shared Agency Deborah Tollefsen, Shaun Gallagher Mar 2017 - Vol 47 , Issue 2 First published: 30 Oct 2016 Citations: 4 Views: 531 Psychometrics versus Representational Theory of Measurement Elina Vessonen Jul 2017 - Vol 47 , Issue 4-5 First published: 06 May 2017 Citations: 3 Views: 425 Group Freedom: A Social Mechanism Account Frank Hindriks Dec 2017 - Vol 47 , Issue 6 First published: 01 Sep 2017 Citations: 3 Views: 883 Modularity of Mind: Is It Time to Abandon T...