British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	69
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	52
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	46
What Is an Object File?	35
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	35
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	34
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	31
Being Realist about Bayes, and the Predictive Processing Theory of Mind	27
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity	26
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	23
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	23
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	22
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	21
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations	21
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	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?	19
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	19
The New Fiction View of Models	18
‘Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science’	18
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	16
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	16
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	16
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	16
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15

The Costs of HARKing	15
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	15
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	14
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	14
A generalized patchwork approach to scientific concepts	14
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	13
Analogue Computation and Representation	13
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	13
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	12
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	12
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	12
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization	11
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
The Descent of Preferences	11
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	11
Capricious Kinds	10
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	10
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	10
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	9
Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism	9
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	9
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	9
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	8
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus	8
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time	8
Research Problems	8
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly	8
How to Be a Relativistic Spacetime State Realist	8
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	8
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	7
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
Cancer and the Levels of Selection	7
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	7
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Explaining the Success of Induction	6
The Value of Biased Information	6
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	6
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	6

Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	6
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	6
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	6
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	6
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	6
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal	5
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	5
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution	5
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains	5
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?	5
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics	5
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience	5
Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins	5
Evidential Probabilities and Credences	5
The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition	5
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	5
Epistemic Holes and Determinism in Classical General Relativity	5
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?	5
What’s the Point of Authors?	4
Peer Review May Not Be Such a Bad Idea: Response to Heesen and Bright	4
Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis	4
Should Explanations Omit the Details?	4
Saving the Data	4
Delusional Predictions and Explanations	4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)	4
Well-Being Coherentism	4
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	4
Against Computational Perspectivalism	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
Anti-reductionist Interventionism	4
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms	4
Bottled Understanding: The Role of Lab Work in Ecology	4
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness	3
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour	3
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions	3
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?	3
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking	3
Malament–Hogarth Machines	3
Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling	3
Blind Cooperation: The Evolution of Redundancy via Ignorance	3
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics	3
Putting theory in its place: The relationship between universality arguments and empirical constraints	3
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	3
Seeing Goal-Directedness: A Case for Social Perception	3
The Typical Principle	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
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	3
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function	3
Experimental Artefacts	2
Σ01 Soundness Isn’t Enough: Number-Theoretic Indeterminacy’s Unsavory Physical Commitments	2
Neural Oscillations as Representations	2
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms	2
On Absolute Units	2
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	2
How to distinguish between indistinguishable particles	2
Law-Abiding Causal Decision Theory	2
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance	2
Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content	2
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	2
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction	2
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	2
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms	2
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	2
Betting on Future Physics	2
Bivalent Selection and Graded Darwinian Individuality	2
Time reversal invariance and ontology	2
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	2
The idea of mismatch in evolutionary medicine	2
Explanatory Distance	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
Putting History Back into Mechanisms	2

Shakin' All Over: Proving Landauer's principle without neglect of fluctuations	2
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory	2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize	2
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	2
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	2
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions	2
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	2
On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What’s the Point of Understanding and Explaining?	2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds	2
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	2
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA	2
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	2
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	2
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics	2
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry	1
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	1
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity	1
A Hierarchy of Spacetime Symmetries: Holes to Heraclitus	1
The Conceptual Format Debate and the Challenge from (Global) Supramodality	1
Everettian Quantum Mechanics and the Metaphysics of Modality	1
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine	1
Crossing the Threshold: An Epigenetic Alternative to Dimensional Accounts of Mental Disorders	1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities	1
General-Purpose Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics: The Case of Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty	1
Host Specificity in Biological Control	1
The Unity of Science and the Mentaculus	1
Comparing Mathematical Explanations	1
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation	1
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	1
Entropy and Insufficient Reason: A Note on the Judy Benjamin Problem	1
Fixing Stochastic Dominance	1
On the Capacity for Vision through Sensory Substitution	1
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection	1
Multisensory Integration and Sense Modalism	1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions	1
Why use generic language in science?	1
Robustness and Modularity	1
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	1
Justifying Lewis’s Kinematics of Chance	1
On Biologizing Racism	1
The Counterpossibles of Science vs. the Science of Counterpossibles	1
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	1
How to Teach General Relativity	1
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence	1
Sleeping Beauty: Exploring a Neglected Solution	1
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan	1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability	1
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games	1
How to be Humean about symmetries	1
A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling: Modelling Mechanisms in Cancer Immunology	1
Deterministic Convergence and Strong Regularity	1
The efficacy of human learning in Lewis signalling games	1
Grasping in Understanding	1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress	1
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	1
Sifting the Signal from the Noise	1
Functionalism and the Emotions	1
Biochemical functions	1
Unmixing for Causal Inference: Thoughts on McCaffrey and Danks	1
Biological Markets, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Morality	1
Justifying the Norms of Inductive Inference	1
Introducing the Q-based interpretation of quantum mechanics	1
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	1
Bayesians Too Should Follow Wason: A Comprehensive Accuracy-Based Analysis of the Selection Task	1
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts	1
Inference to the Best Contradiction?	1
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?	1
Consequences of Calibration	1
Cumulative Advantage and the Incentive to Commit Fraud in Science	1
Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions	1
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	1
The Underdeterministic Framework	1
The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution	1