British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	59
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	49
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	44
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	33
What Is an Object File?	33
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	30
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	29
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
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations	21
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	20
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	20
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	20
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	19
The New Fiction View of Models	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?	18
‘Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science’	18
Why Surplus Structure Is Not Superfluous	16
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	15
The Costs of HARKing	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15
Mathematical Explanation beyond Explanatory Proof	15
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	15

Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics	15
Structuralism in the Idiom of Determination	14
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	14
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	14
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	14
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	14
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	13
A generalized patchwork approach to scientific concepts	13
The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory	13
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	12
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	12
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	12
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	11
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	11
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
The Descent of Preferences	11
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	11
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation?	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	10
Capricious Kinds	10
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	10
Signalling under Uncertainty: Interpretative Alignment without a Common Prior	10
Explanatory Abstraction and the Goldilocks Problem: Interventionism Gets Things Just Right	9
Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism	9
Analogue Computation and Representation	9
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	9
Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization	9
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	9
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	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
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	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
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	7
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
Research Problems	7
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	7
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	7
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	7
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7

Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	6
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	6
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
The Value of Biased Information	6
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	6
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	6
Cancer and the Levels of Selection	6
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	6
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	6
Getting Serious about Shared Features	6
Explaining the Success of Induction	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
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
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	5
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics	5
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	5
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains	5
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?	5
The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition	5
‘Models of’ and ‘Models for’: On the Relation between Mechanistic Models and Experimental Strategies in Molecular Biology	5
Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins	5
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?	5
Evidential Probabilities and Credences	5
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	5
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	5
Epistemic Holes and Determinism in Classical General Relativity	5
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms	4
Bottled Understanding: The Role of Lab Work in Ecology	4
The Complementarity of Psychometrics and the Representational Theory of Measurement	4
Well-Being Coherentism	4
Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis	4
Against Computational Perspectivalism	4
Saving the Data	4
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?	4
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	4
Scientific Objectivity and its Limits	4
Should Explanations Omit the Details?	4
Delusional Predictions and Explanations	4
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience	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
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	4
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics	3
Putting theory in its place: The relationship between universality arguments and empirical constraints	3
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?	3
The Typical Principle	3
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function	3
Coherence, Explanation, and Hypothesis Selection	3
Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation	3
Un-debunking Ordinary Objects with the Help of Predictive Processing	3
Closing the hole argument	3
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	3
Seeing Goal-Directedness: A Case for Social Perception	3
Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling	3
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour	3
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions	3
Generalism and the Metaphysics of Ontic Structural Realism	3
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	3
Malament–Hogarth Machines	3
What's the Point of Authors?	3
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds	2
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA	2
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	2
Putting History Back into Mechanisms	2
Shakin' All Over: Proving Landauer's principle without neglect of fluctuations	2
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms	2
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	2
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions	2
The Sense of Time	2
Why Experimental Balance is Still a Reason to Randomize	2
Blind Cooperation: The Evolution of Redundancy via Ignorance	2
How to distinguish between indistinguishable particles	2
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance	2
Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content	2

Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	2
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	2
Anti-reductionist Interventionism	2
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking	2
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory	2
On Absolute Units	2
Time reversal invariance and ontology	2
Neural Oscillations as Representations	2
Law-Abiding Causal Decision Theory	2
The idea of mismatch in evolutionary medicine	2
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	2
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness	2
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy	2
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction	2
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	2
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics	2
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	2
Betting on Future Physics	2
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms	2
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	2
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	2
Bivalent Selection and Graded Darwinian Individuality	2