British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	74
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	59
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	47
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	41
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	41
What Is an Object File?	37
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	33
Being Realist about Bayes, and the Predictive Processing Theory of Mind	29
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity	26
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	25
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	24
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	23
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?	22
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	22
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	21
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	20
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	20
The Costs of HARKing	19
The New Fiction View of Models	18
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	18
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	17
Analogue Computation and Representation	16
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	16
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	16
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	15

A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	14
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	14
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	13
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	13
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	13
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	12
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	12
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	11
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	11
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
The Descent of Preferences	11
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	11
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	10
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	10
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	10
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	9
Research Problems	9
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	9
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	8
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	8
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly	8
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time	8
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus	8
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	8
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	8
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution	7
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	7
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
Cancer and the Levels of Selection	7
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
The Value of Biased Information	7
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	7
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	7
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	7
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
Against Computational Perspectivalism	6
Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins	6

On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	6
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	5
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics	5
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?	5
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains	5
Evidential Probabilities and Credences	5
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition	5
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience	5
Explaining the Success of Induction	5
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits	5
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?	5
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	5
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms	5
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?	5
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal	5
The idea of mismatch in evolutionary medicine	4
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry	4
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction	4
Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis	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
Anti-reductionist Interventionism	4
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	4
Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling	4
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics	4
What’s the Point of Authors?	4
Well-Being Coherentism	4
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?	4
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking	4
Delusional Predictions and Explanations	4
Blind Cooperation: The Evolution of Redundancy via Ignorance	3
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness	3
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	3
Un-debunking Ordinary Objects with the Help of Predictive Processing	3
Closing the hole argument	3
The Typical Principle	3
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions	3
Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation	3
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions	3
Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content	3
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	3
The Conceptual Format Debate and the Challenge from (Global) Supramodality	3
Coherence, Explanation, and Hypothesis Selection	3
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour	3
Putting theory in its place: The relationship between universality arguments and empirical constraints	3
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA	3
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics	2
Betting on Future Physics	2
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory	2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize	2
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function	2
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	2
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	2
Law-Abiding Causal Decision Theory	2
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance	2
Explanatory Distance	2
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine	2
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	2
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	2
Wait, Why Gauge?	2
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms	2
Unmixing for Causal Inference: Thoughts on McCaffrey and Danks	2
Neural Oscillations as Representations	2
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	2
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	2
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds	2
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms	2
On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What’s the Point of Understanding and Explaining?	2
A Pluralist Perspective on Shape Constancy	2
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy	2
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	2
Biological Markets, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Morality	2
Putting History Back into Mechanisms	2
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	2
Experimental Artefacts	2
Σ01 Soundness Isn’t Enough: Number-Theoretic Indeterminacy’s Unsavory Physical Commitments	2

Bivalent Selection and Graded Darwinian Individuality	2
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?	2
On Absolute Units	2
Time reversal invariance and ontology	2
How to distinguish between indistinguishable particles	2
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	2
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	2
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	2
A Hierarchy of Spacetime Symmetries: Holes to Heraclitus	2
Everettian Quantum Mechanics and the Metaphysics of Modality	2
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	2
Fixing Stochastic Dominance	1
Deterministic Convergence and Strong Regularity	1
Understanding Structural Representations	1
The Underdeterministic Framework	1
Introducing the Q-Based Interpretation of Quantum Theory	1
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection	1
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	1
Justifying Lewis’s Kinematics of Chance	1
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	1
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity	1
The Counterpossibles of Science vs. the Science of Counterpossibles	1
Robustness and Modularity	1
Mechanistic Explanations and Teleological Functions	1
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities	1
Inference to the Best Contradiction?	1
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate	1
Consequences of Calibration	1
Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions	1
Host Specificity in Biological Control	1
Effective Ontic Structural Realism	1
The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution	1
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	1
Bias, Lotteries, and Affirmative Action in Science Funding Policy	1
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions	1
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist	1
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	1
Sifting the Signal from the Noise	1
Crossing the Threshold: An Epigenetic Alternative to Dimensional Accounts of Mental Disorders	1
Biochemical functions	1
General-Purpose Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics: The Case of Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty	1
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	1
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence	1
How to Teach General Relativity	1
Cumulative Advantage and the Incentive to Commit Fraud in Science	1
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation	1
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	1
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts	1
Bayesians Too Should Follow Wason: A Comprehensive Accuracy-Based Analysis of the Selection Task	1
Grasping in Understanding	1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability	1
How to be Humean about symmetries	1
Multisensory Integration and Sense Modalism	1
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress	1
The efficacy of human learning in Lewis signalling games	1
Functionalism and the Emotions	1
Why use generic language in science?	1
On Biologizing Racism	1
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	1
Justifying the Norms of Inductive Inference	1
What are the ‘levels’ in levels of selection?	1
Comparing Mathematical Explanations	1
The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation	1
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	1
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan	1
In Defence of Dimensions	1
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games	1
A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling: Modelling Mechanisms in Cancer Immunology	1
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	1
The Unity of Science and the Mentaculus	1
On the Capacity for Vision through Sensory Substitution	1
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	1