OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	74
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	59
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	47
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	41
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	41
What Is an Object File?	37
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	33
Being Realist about Bayes, and the Predictive Processing Theory of Mind	29
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity	26
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	25
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	24
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	23
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	22
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?	22
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	21
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	20
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	20
The Costs of HARKing	19
The New Fiction View of Models	18
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	18
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	17
Analogue Computation and Representation	16
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	16
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	16
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	15

A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	14
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	14
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	13
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	13
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	13
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	12
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	12
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
The Descent of Preferences	11
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	11
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	11
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	11
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	10
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	10
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	10
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Research Problems	9
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	9
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	9
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	8
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	8
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly	8
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time	8
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus	8
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	8
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	8
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
Cancer and the Levels of Selection	7
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
The Value of Biased Information	7
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	7
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	7
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	7
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution	7
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	7
Against Computational Perspectivalism	6
Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins	6
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	6

Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains	5
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience	5
Evidential Probabilities and Credences	5
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition	5
Explaining the Success of Induction	5
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits	5
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms	5
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?	5
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	5
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?	5
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?	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