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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

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
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
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	19
It’s Not a Game: Accurate Representation with Toy Models	19
The New Fiction View of Models	18
‘Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science’	18
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	16
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	16
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	16
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	16
The Costs of HARKing	15

Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	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
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 Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	12
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
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization	11
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
Capricious Kinds	10
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	9
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	9
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	9
Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism	9
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
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	8
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 Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
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
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
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
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal	5
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	5