British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk54
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation37
In Defence of Dimensions32
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll31
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time26
Grasping in Understanding22
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy21
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice20
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness20
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI19
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism18
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction18
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics18
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study16
Host Specificity in Biological Control15
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws15
Rational Aversion to Information15
On Biologizing Racism14
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely14
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms14
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science13
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions12
Biochemical Functions12
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations12
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations11
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem11
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)11
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains10
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale10
Front Matter10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space10
Front Matter10
On the very idea of biological individuality10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review10
Laws of Nature and Their Supporting Casts10
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?10
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy10
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics9
Realism about Newtonian Gravity9
The Evolution of Denial9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour9
Actual Causation and Minimality9
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions8
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing8
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?8
Front Matter8
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice8
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?7
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity7
The mirage of big-data phrenology7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge7
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity7
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts6
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models6
Introspection Is Signal Detection6
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
Front Matter6
Geometric Pooling: A User’s Guide6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach6
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws6
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds5
Presentist Velocities5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology5
Front Matter5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception5
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks5
Closing the Hole Argument5
Symmetries as Isomorphisms4
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions4
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties4
Effective Ontic Structural Realism4
Understanding Structural Representations4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation4
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence4
Smugglers of reference: Expressivist-inferentialism and the inevitability of model denotation4
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts4
Front Matter4
Erratum4
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan4
Neural Oscillations as Representations4
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience4
The Many Problems of Spacetime Emergence in Quantum Gravity4
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?4
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles3
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games3
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments3
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem3
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference3
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry3
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits3
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection3
The Limitations of the Notion of 'Observable' in Diffeomorphism-Invariant Models3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
Naturalizing Natural Salience3
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism3
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice3
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology3
A Hybrid Theory of Induction3
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry3
De-idealizing De-idealization: Beyond Full Reversal3
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
Front Matter3
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?3
On Explaining the Success of Induction3
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection3
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance3
Niches and Niche Models3
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels3
Sifting the Signal from the Noise3
In Defence of Science: Two Ways to Rehabilitate Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
Why Confirm Laws?2
Experimental Artefacts2
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?2
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science2
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account2
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate2
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship2
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist2
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence2
Cascade Versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Front Matter2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories2
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms2
Wavefunction Mereology2
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability2
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities2
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology2
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal2
Natural Theories2
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function2
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists2
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?2
Consequences of Calibration2
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
Realism after Theory T Thinking2
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking2
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent2
Anti-reductionist Interventionism2
Against Self-Location2
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize2
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
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