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Scientific metaphysics and social science
Recently, philosophers have developed an extensive literature on social ontology that applies methods and concepts from analytic metaphysics. Much of...
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A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science
Journal editors have a large amount of power to advance open science in their respective fields by incentivising and mandating open policies and...
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The social contract for science and the value-free ideal
While the Value-Free Ideal (VFI) had many precursors, it became a solidified bulwark of normative claims about scientific reasoning and practice in...
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Social and cognitive diversity in science: introduction
In this introduction to the Topical Collection on Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science , we map the questions that have guided social...
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Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science
Quantum mechanics supersedes classical mechanics, and social science, some argue, should be responsive to this change. This paper finds that two...
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A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous...
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Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: an STSFAN manifesto
Interdisciplinary research needs innovation. As an action-oriented intervention, this Manifesto begins from the authors’ experiences as social...
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Looking beyond values: The legitimacy of social perspectives, opinions and interests in science
This paper critically assesses the current debates in philosophy of science that focus on the concept of values. In these debates, it is often...
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It Takes a Village to Trust Science: Towards a (Thoroughly) Social Approach to Public Trust in Science
In this paper, I distinguish three general approaches to public trust in science, which I call the individual approach, the semi-social approach, and...
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Religious conversion, philosophy, and social science
I argue that empirical studies into the phenomenon of religious conversion suffer from conceptual unclarity owing to an absence of philosophical...
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Ethical Issues in Social Science Research Employing Big Data
This paper analyzes the ethics of social science research (SSR) employing big data. We begin by highlighting the research gap found on the...
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Boundary objects, trading zones, and stigmergy: the social and the cognitive in science
The main proposal of this paper is that boundary objects and the trading zones in which they occur are the analogue of pheromone trails in the...
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Should ordinary race talk be ontologically privileged? Moving social science into the philosophical mainstream
The ontology of race is often seen as answering two central questions. First, do races exist? Second, if races do exist, then what are they?...
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Science in Social Contexts
Gradually since 1990 a growing number of critical analyses from within science have been published of how science was organized as a system and...
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Coherence in Science: A Social Approach
Among epistemologists, it is common to assume that insofar as coherence bears on the justification of belief, the only relevant coherence relations...
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Improving the agri-food biotechnology conversation: bridging science communication with science and technology studies
At a time when agri-food biotechnologies are receiving a surge of investment, innovation, and public interest in the United States, it is common to...
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A naturalist approach to social ontology
I argue that a certain kind of naturalist approach to social ontology is likely to be both philosophically fruitful and relevant to empirical social...
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The metaphysical issues in the social sciences and how social scientists debate them
Most philosophical work on social ontology continues to be done without much connection to social scientific concerns. This special issue, however,...
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Applying mechanical philosophy to web science: The case of social machines
Social machines are a prominent focus of attention for those who work in the field of Web and Internet science. Although a number of online systems...
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Exploring the socio-ecology of science: the case of coral reefs
In this paper I use data from interviews conducted with coral scientists to examine the socio-ecological dimensions of science, i.e. how science...