OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	62
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	49
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	46
What Is an Object File?	34
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	33
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	32
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
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	23
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	22
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations	21
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	20
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	20
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	17
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	16
The Costs of HARKing	15
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	15
Mathematical Explanation beyond Explanatory Proof	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15

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

Research Problems	7
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	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
Explaining the Success of Induction	6
The Value of Biased Information	6
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference, Because Conditioning on Biconditionals Is Counterintuitive	6
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	6
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	6
Getting Serious about Shared Features	6
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	6
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	6
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	6
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	6
‘Models of’ and ‘Models for’: On the Relation between Mechanistic Models and Experimental Strategies in Molecular Biology	6