My main area of research is the philosophy of the social sciences (and the humanities). In particular, I work on the following topics: values in science, the individualism/holism debate, qualitative methods, research ethics, social theories of practice, and the philosophy of anthropology and sociology.

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Zahle, Julie (2025). Process Tracing with Qualitative Data. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2023). Qualitative Research in Political Science. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2021). Interpretivism and Qualitative Research. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie; Kincaid, Harold (2020). Agent-Based Modelling With and Without Methodological Individualism. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2020). The Level Conception of the Methodological Individualism-Holism Debate. (external link)
• Kappel, Klemens; Zahle, Julie (2019). The Epistemic Role of Science and Experts in Democracy. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie; Kaidesoja, Tuukka (2019). Emergence in the Social Sciences. (external link)

Academic article

• Zahle, Julie (2024). Bias and Debiasing Strategies in Qualitative Data Collection. (external link)
• Marchionni, Caterina; Zahle, Julie; Godman, Marion (2024). Reactivity in the human sciences. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie; Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2024). Examen philosophicum fra allmenndannelse til ekspertdannelse. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2023). Methodological Holism in the Social Sciences (revised version of entry published in 2016). (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2023). Reactivity and good data in qualitative data collection. (external link)
• Kincaid, Harold; Zahle, Julie (2022). Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2020). Objective Data Sets in Qualitative Research. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2019). Limits to levels in the methodological individualism–holism debate. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2019). Data, Epistemic Values. and Multiple Methods in Case Study Research. (external link)
• Ylikoski, Petri; Zahle, Julie (2019). Case Study Research in the Social Sciences. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie (2018). Values and Data Collection in Social Research. (external link)
• Zahle, Julie; Kincaid, Harold (2018). Why be a Methodological Individualist?. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected recent publications

Zahle, J. (2025). "Bias and Debiasing Strategies in Qualitative Data Collection," Philosophy of Science 92(3):606-623.

Zahle, J. (2025). "Process Tracing with Qualitative Data," in The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods, Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo (eds.). London: Routledge Publishers, pp. 419-429.

Marchionni, C, Zahle, J. & Godman, M. (2024). “Reactivity in the Human Sciences,” European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14(8):1-24.

Zahle, J. (2023). "Reactivity and Good Data in Qualitative Data Collection," European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13(10):1-18.

Zahle, J. (2023). “Qualitative Research in Political Science” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, Jeroen van Bouwel and Harold Kincaid (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 204-220.

Kincaid, H. & Zahle, J. (2022). "Are ABM Explanations in the Social Sciences Inevitably Individualist?" Synthese, 200:1-22.

Zahle, J. (2020). "Objective Data Sets in Qualitative Research," Synthese, 199:101-117.

Zahle, J. (2019). “Limits to Levels in the Methodological Individualism-Holism Debate,” Synthese, 198(7):6435-6454.

Zahle, J & Kincaid, H. (2019) “Why be a Methodological Individualist?” Synthese, 196(2), pp. 655-675.

Zahle, J. (2019). “Data, Epistemic Values and Multiple Methods in Case Study Research,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 78, pp. 32-39

Zahle, J. (2018) “Values and Data Collection in Social Research,” Philosophy of Science, 85(1), pp. 144-163.

Zahle, J. (2017) “Privacy, Informed Consent, and Participant Observation,” Perspectives on Science, 25(4), pp. 465-487.

Zahle, J. (2016) “Emergence” in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science, Lee McIntyre & Alex Rosenberg (eds.), London: Routledge Publishers, pp. 124-134.

Zahle, J. (2016) “Methodological Holism in the Social Sciences” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/, pp. 1-39.

Complete list of publications at https://sites.google.com/view/juliezahle/publications