British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation82
Breaking the language barrier: conceptual representation without a language-like format 59
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics47
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties41
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms41
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll37
Multisensory Integration and Sense Modalism29
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories24
The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution23
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk21
The Typical Principle20
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy20
Time reversal invariance and ontology20
On the Capacity for Vision through Sensory Substitution19
Front Matter19
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization18
Why Confirm Laws?18
The mirage of big-data phrenology17
Front Matter16
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time16
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?15
Grasping in Understanding15
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function15
Dimensions of predictive success14
The Ambiguity Dilemma for Imprecise Bayesians13
Effective and Selective Realisms13
Realism after Theory T Thinking13
Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions12
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science12
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry11
Corrigendum to: Inference to the Best Explanation in Uncertain Evidential Situations11
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice11
Gauge and Ghosts11
A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling: Modelling Mechanisms in Cancer Immunology11
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity11
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox10
The Demise of Brain Death10
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge10
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness9
The Black Hole Idealization Paradox9
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism 9
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate8
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account8
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal8
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?8
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity8
Against Self-Location8
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition8
In Defence of Dimensions8
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems8
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science7
Analogue Computation and Representation7
Are Maxwell Gravitation and Newton-Cartan Theory Theoretically Equivalent?7
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation7
Host Specificity in Biological Control7
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study7
Rational Aversion to Information7
Front Matter7
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science7
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?7
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection7
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?6
Can Pragmatic Humeanism Account for the Counterfactual Invariance of Natural Laws?6
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction6
When Is Similarity-Biased Social Learning Adaptively Advantageous? 6
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry6
The comparison of inequality measurements across countries and time6
Experimental Artefacts5
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?5
Statistical Autonomous Explanations and the Patterns of Nature: A Modified Account5
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?5
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument5
Three Concepts of Actual Causation5
Bayesian merging of opinions and algorithmic randomness5
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice5
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms5
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction5
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI5
Introspection Is Signal Detection5
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts5
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information5
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts5
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation4
How to Teach General Relativity4
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide4
Front Matter4
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities4
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom4
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models4
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws4
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics4
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability4
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach4
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science4
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory4
Anti-reductionist Interventionism4
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism3
Cancer and the Levels of Selection3
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection3
How Stable Is Objective Chance?3
Closing the hole argument3
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations3
Comparing Mathematical Explanations3
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws3
Research Problems3
Front Matter3
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics3
Wait, Why Gauge?3
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts3
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking 3
Mechanistic Explanations and Teleological Functions3
Relative Significance Controversies in Evolutionary Biology3
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?3
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely3
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits2
Biological Markets, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Morality2
Justifying the Norms of Inductive Inference2
A Hierarchy of Spacetime Symmetries: Holes to Heraclitus2
Evidential Probabilities and Credences2
The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-social-technological Co-evolutionary Account2
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions2
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time2
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles2
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes2
Exploitative Informing2
Naturalizing Natural Salience2
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine2
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core2
Why use generic language in science?2
Persistent evidential discordance2
Sifting the Signal from the Noise2
Front Matter2
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance2
Putting History Back into Mechanisms2
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal2
On Biologizing Racism2
Understanding from Machine Learning Models2
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology2
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception2
Everettian Quantum Mechanics and the Metaphysics of Modality2
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?2
Biochemical functions2
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation2
On Explaining the Success of Induction2
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?2
Front Matter2
The New Fiction View of Models2
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks2
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters2
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations2
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism2
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing2
Well-Being Coherentism2
The local validity of special relativity from a scale-relative perspective2
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction2
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds2
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection1
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology1
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions1
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?1
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?1
Explanatory Distance1
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions1
Understanding Structural Representations1
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy1
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem1
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?1
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations1
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?1
On the Incompleteness of Classical Mechanics1
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly1
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels1
A Hybrid Theory of Induction1
On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization and Other Belief Updating Strategies1
The Value of Biased Information1
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains1
Corrigendum to: Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns1
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry1
Machian Comparativism about Mass1
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?1
How to Estimate Closeness to the Truth for Scientific Laws. A Case Study of the Development of Gas Laws over 140 Years 1
What Is an Object File?1
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health1
Bias, Lotteries, and Affirmative Action in Science Funding Policy1
Peer Review May Not Be Such a Bad Idea: Response to Heesen and Bright1
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance1
Jury Theorems for Peer Review1
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry1
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA1
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive1
A Pluralist Perspective on Shape Constancy1
Un-debunking Ordinary Objects with the Help of Predictive Processing1
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy1
The Underdeterministic Framework1
On the objectivity of measurement outcomes1
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space1
Front Matter1
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress1
A new low: Reassessing (and revising) the local recurrency theory of consciousness1
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem1
Necessities Overboard: A Reply to Lange1
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference1
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts1
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?1
Putting theory in its place: The relationship between universality arguments and empirical constraints1
Niches and Niche Models1
Finite Frequentism Explains Quantum Probability1
Front Matter1
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity1
Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination1
The efficacy of human learning in Lewis signalling games1
The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism1
The Mass of the Gravitational Field1
Infinite Scale Skepticism: Probing the Epistemology of the Limit of Infinite Degrees of Freedom and Hilbert Space Non-Uniqueness1
Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content1
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