Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Key Issues
Philosophy of the Social Sciences focuses on the central issues of the social sciences, including general methodology (explaining, theorizing, testing), the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality, and the history of theories and concepts. Among the topics you'll explore are:
- Ethnomethodology
- Evolution
- Marxism
- Phenomenology
- Postmodernism
- Rationality
- Relativism
- Scientific Methods
- Textual Interpretations
Philosophy of the Social Sciences' open editorial policy ensures that you'll enjoy rigorous scholarship on topics viewed from many different - and often conflicting - schools of thought. No school, party or style of philosophy of the social sciences is favored. Debate between schools is encouraged. Each issue presents submissions by distinguished scholars from a variety of fields including: anthropology, communications, economics, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, sociology
Comprehensive
Each issue brings you in-depth discussions, symposia, literature surveys, translations, and review symposia of interest both to philosophers concerned with the social sciences and to social scientists concerned with the philosophical foundations of their subjects.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/poss.
Since its foundation Philosophy of the Social Sciences has served as the international, interdisciplinary forum for current research, theory, and debate on the philosophical foundations of the social services. Philosophy of the Social Sciences focuses on the central issues of the social sciences, including general methodology (explaining, theorizing, testing) the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality and the history of theories and concepts. Among the topics you'll explore are: ethnomethodology, evolution, Marxism, phenomenology, postmodernism, rationality, relativism, scientific methods, and textual interpretations. Philosophy of the Social Sciences' open editorial policy ensures that you'll enjoy rigorous scholarship on topics viewed from many different-- and often conflicting-- schools of thought. No school, party or style of philosophy of the social sciences is favoured. Debate between schools is encouraged. Each issue presents submissions by distinguished scholars from a variety of fields, including: anthropology, communications, economics, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Each issue brings you in-depth discussions, symposia, literature surveys, translations, and review symposia of interest both to philosophyers concerned with the social sciences and to social scientists concerned with the philosophical foundations of their subjects.
| Ian C. Jarvie† | York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Harold Kaplan† | |
| John O'Neill† | York University, Ontario, Canada |
| J. O. Wisdom† |
| Ian C. Jarvie† | York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nathalie Bulle | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France |
| Steve Fuller | University of Warwick, UK |
| J.N. Hattiangadi | York University, Canada |
| Kei Yoshida | Waseda University, Japan |
| Joseph Agassi† | Tel Aviv University, Herzliyah, Israel |
| Hans Albert† | University of Mannheim, Germany |
| Caroline Arruda | Tulane University, USA |
| Jack Birner | University of Trento, Italy |
| L. A. Boland | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Jesus Zamora Bonilla | UNED. Humanidades, Spain |
| Alban Bouvier | Aix-Marseille Université, France |
| Augustine Brannigan | University of Calgary, Canada |
| James M. Buchanan† | George Mason University, United States, USA |
| K.O.L. Burridge† | University of British Colombia, Canada |
| Kevin M. Cahill | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Bruce Caldwell | Duke University, USA |
| Noam Chomsky | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Avi J. Cohen | York University, Canada |
| Kurt Danziger | York University, Toronto, Canada |
| Francesco Di Iorio | Nankai University, China |
| W. H. Dray† | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Morris N. Eagle | Adelphi University, USA |
| Dave Elder-Vass | Loughborough University, UK |
| Jon Elster | Columbia University, United States, USA |
| Brian Epstein | Tufts University, USA |
| Manuela Fernandez | Universidad De Los Andes, Colombia |
| Stefano Gattei | University of Trento, Italy |
| J. W. Grove† | Queens University, Canada |
| Francesco Guala | University of Milan, Italy |
| Irene Harvey | Pennsylvania State University, United States, USA |
| Catherine Herfeld | University of Hannover, Germany |
| Byron Kaldis | National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
| Karin Knorr-Cetina | University of Chicago, USA |
| Tadashi Kobayashi | Osaka University, Japan |
| Daniel M. Little | University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA |
| Steven Lukes | New York University, USA |
| William Lynch | Wayne State University, USA |
| Chris Mantzavinos | University of Athens, Greece |
| Eleanora Montuschi | University of Venice, Italy |
| Christopher Nichols† | York University, Canada |
| Martin Palecek | University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic |
| Mark Risjord | Emory University, USA |
| Alexander Rosenberg | Duke University, USA |
| Paul A Roth | University of California-Santa Cruz, USA |
| Joseph Rouse | Wesleyan University, USA |
| Marshall Sahlins† | University of Chicago, United States, USA |
| Raphael Sassower | University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA |
| Theodore Schatzky | University of Kentucky, USA |
| Evelyn Gröbl-Steinbach Schuster | Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria |
| Jeremy Shearmur | Australian National University, Australia |
| Renan Springer de Freitas | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
| Karsten Stueber | College of the Holy Cross, USA |
| Enrique Suarez-Iniguez | Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico |
| Charles Taylor | McGill University, Canada |
| Sari Thomas | Temple University, Philadelphia, United States, USA |
| Lars Udehn | University of Stockholm, Sweden |
| H. T. Wilson | McLaughlin College, York University, Canada |
| Alison Wylie | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Petri Ylikoski | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Julie Zahle | University of Bergen, Norway |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.