OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Demise of Brain Death	109
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	72
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	58
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	51
In Defence of Dimensions	39
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	30
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	26
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	26
Grasping in Understanding	25
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	24
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	22
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	21
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	20
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	19
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	17
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	17
Rational Aversion to Information	17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	16
Host Specificity in Biological Control	16
On Biologizing Racism	15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	15
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	14
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	14

No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	14
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13
Biochemical functions	13
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	12
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	12
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	12
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	11
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	11
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	11
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	11
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	11
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	10
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	10
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	10
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	10
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	10
On the very idea of biological individuality	10
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	9
The Costs of HARKing	9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	9
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	9
Front Matter	9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	8
The Evolution of Denial	8
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations	8
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	7
Front Matter	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	7
Actual Causation and Minimality	7
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	7
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
Front Matter	6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation	6
The mirage of big-data phrenology	6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	6

Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5
Introspection Is Signal Detection	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	5
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Front Matter	5
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	4
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	4
Closing the Hole Argument	4
Understanding Structural Representations	4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints	4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality	4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan	4
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	4
Presentist Velocities	4
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	4
Front Matter	4
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	4
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	4
Machian Comparativism about Mass	4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)	4