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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories95
Grasping in Understanding68
In Defence of Dimensions53
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time51
The Demise of Brain Death50
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk37
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy28
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice25
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation24
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll24
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness22
Host Specificity in Biological Control21
The comparison of inequality measurements across countries and time19
Rational Aversion to Information19
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts17
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws17
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism16
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information16
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI16
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction16
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study15
On Biologizing Racism15
Biochemical functions14
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms12
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core12
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy12
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations12
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem11
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?11
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes10
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space10
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale9
On the very idea of biological individuality9
Jury Theorems for Peer Review9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry9
The Costs of HARKing8
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument8
Actual Causation and Minimality8
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics7
Front Matter7
A Bayesian Account of Establishing7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations7
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice7
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State7
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations7
The Evolution of Denial7
The mirage of big-data phrenology7
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity6
Introspection Is Signal Detection6
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?6
Front Matter5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing5
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism5
Front Matter5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds4
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology4
Understanding Structural Representations4
Machian Comparativism about Mass4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes4
Closing the Hole Argument4
Front Matter4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation4
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
Front Matter3
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions3
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts3
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation3
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo3
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives3
Symmetries as Isomorphisms3
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity3
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation3
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution3
Neural Oscillations as Representations3
Effective Ontic Structural Realism3
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?3
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience3
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence3
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders3
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)3
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan3
A Hybrid Theory of Induction2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions2
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition2
Niches and Niche Models2
On Explaining the Success of Induction2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA2
Sifting the Signal from the Noise2
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance2
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry2
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection2
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism 2
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts2
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity2
Consequences of Calibration2
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels2
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles2
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry2
Biological Markets, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Morality2
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection2
Naturalizing Natural Salience2
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference2
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties2
Front Matter2
Front Matter2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
What Is an Object File?2
The New Fiction View of Models2
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments2
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?2
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice2
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal2
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem2
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics2
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology2
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry2
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?2
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits2
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization1
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability1
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate1
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance1
Cancer and the Levels of Selection1
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal1
The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism1
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking 1
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account1
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine1
Wavefunction Mereology1
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist1
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence1
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists1
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism1
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize1
Are Maxwell Gravitation and Newton-Cartan Theory Theoretically Equivalent?1
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument1
Exploitative Informing1
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox1
On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization and Other Belief Updating Strategies1
Three Concepts of Actual Causation1
Realism after Theory T Thinking1
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy1
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science1
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science1
Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination1
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice1
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms1
Anti-reductionist Interventionism1
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness1
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories1
Speed-Optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence1
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly1
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions1
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory1
The local validity of special relativity from a scale-relative perspective1
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?1
The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-social-technological Co-evolutionary Account1
Time reversal invariance and ontology1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities1
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function1
Front Matter1
Experimental Artefacts1
Why Confirm Laws?1
A new low: Reassessing (and revising) the local recurrency theory of consciousness1
Why use generic language in science?1
Against Self-Location1
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain1
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?1
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?1
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science1
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?1
On the Incompleteness of Classical Mechanics1
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?1
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity1
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