British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	64
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	52
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	46
What Is an Object File?	35
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	33
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	33
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	30
Being Realist about Bayes, and the Predictive Processing Theory of Mind	27
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity	25
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	23
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	23
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations	21
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	21
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	21
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	19
It’s Not a Game: Accurate Representation with Toy Models	19
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?	19
The New Fiction View of Models	19
‘Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science’	18
Why Surplus Structure Is Not Superfluous	18
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	17
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	16
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	16
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	16
Mathematical Explanation beyond Explanatory Proof	16

The Costs of HARKing	15
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	15
Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	14
Structuralism in the Idiom of Determination	14
A generalized patchwork approach to scientific concepts	14
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	14
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	13
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	13
The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory	13
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	12
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	12
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
Analogue Computation and Representation	12
The Descent of Preferences	11
Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization	11
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	11
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	11
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	10
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	10
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	10
Explanatory Abstraction and the Goldilocks Problem: Interventionism Gets Things Just Right	10
Capricious Kinds	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation?	10
Signalling under Uncertainty: Interpretative Alignment without a Common Prior	10
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	9
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	9
Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism	9
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly	8
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference	8
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	8
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus	8
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
Research Problems	8
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	8
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	8
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time	8
How to Be a Relativistic Spacetime State Realist	8
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7
Getting Serious about Shared Features	7
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	7
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	7

Cancer and the Levels of Selection	7
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	7
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	7
The Value of Biased Information	6
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	6
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	6
Explaining the Success of Induction	6
‘Models of’ and ‘Models for’: On the Relation between Mechanistic Models and Experimental Strategies in Molecular Biology	6
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	6
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	6
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference, Because Conditioning on Biconditionals Is Counterintuitive	6
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	6
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	6
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	6
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	5
Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins	5
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?	5
Evidential Probabilities and Credences	5
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics	5
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution	5
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal	5
The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition	5
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	5
Epistemic Holes and Determinism in Classical General Relativity	5
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains	5
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?	5
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?	4
Bottled Understanding: The Role of Lab Work in Ecology	4
Delusional Predictions and Explanations	4
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	4
Well-Being Coherentism	4
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	4
Against Computational Perspectivalism	4
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience	4
What’s the Point of Authors?	4
The Complementarity of Psychometrics and the Representational Theory of Measurement	4
Scientific Objectivity and its Limits	4
Should Explanations Omit the Details?	4
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms	4
Saving the Data	4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)	4
Peer Review May Not Be Such a Bad Idea: Response to Heesen and Bright	4
Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis	4
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	3
Seeing Goal-Directedness: A Case for Social Perception	3
Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling	3
Blind Cooperation: The Evolution of Redundancy via Ignorance	3
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics	3
Un-debunking Ordinary Objects with the Help of Predictive Processing	3
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?	3
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking	3
Malament–Hogarth Machines	3
Coherence, Explanation, and Hypothesis Selection	3
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour	3
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions	3
Closing the hole argument	3
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	3
The Typical Principle	3
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function	3
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness	3
Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation	3
Putting theory in its place: The relationship between universality arguments and empirical constraints	3
Generalism and the Metaphysics of Ontic Structural Realism	3
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	2
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	2
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory	2
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms	2
Betting on Future Physics	2
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize	2
Time reversal invariance and ontology	2
Bivalent Selection and Graded Darwinian Individuality	2
How to distinguish between indistinguishable particles	2
On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What’s the Point of Understanding and Explaining?	2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA	2

Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content	2
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	2
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction	2
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	2
Anti-reductionist Interventionism	2
Experimental Artefacts	2
On Absolute Units	2
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms	2
Neural Oscillations as Representations	2
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	2
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	2
The idea of mismatch in evolutionary medicine	2
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance	2
A Pluralist Perspective on Shape Constancy	2
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy	2
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	2
Putting History Back into Mechanisms	2
Shakin' All Over: Proving Landauer's principle without neglect of fluctuations	2
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics	2
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	2
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions	2
The Sense of Time	2
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	2
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	2
Law-Abiding Causal Decision Theory	2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds	2
Explanatory Distance	2
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	2
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	2