Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming	36
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	28
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	27
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	27
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice	25
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:	20
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	20
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	20
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference	17
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation	17
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	17
Review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Intellectual Path - K. Brad Wray . Kuhn’s Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge	16
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	14
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	14
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	11
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	10
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics	10
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	10
Review of Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard’s Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools - Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, Cultures of Prediction: How	9
The Logit Model Measurement Problem	9
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment	9
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	9
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	9
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	9

Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs	9
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	9
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review	9
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets	8
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science	8
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	8
Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary	8
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	8
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries	8
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
The squared mass-ratios puzzle for Comparativism	7
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis	7
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	7
Review of Charles H. Pence’s The Causal Structure of Natural Selection - Charles H. Pence, The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. Elements in the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge	7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning	7
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement	7
Review of Nancy Cartwright’s A Philosopher Looks at Science - Nancy Cartwright, A Philosopher Looks at Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 210 pp. $12.95 (paperback).	7
Models as Dogwhistles	7
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	7
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	6
Biomimetic Epistemology	6
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	6
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	6
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	6
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	6
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence	6
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point	6
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	6
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	6
Absolutely Zero Evidence	6
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	6
Accurate Updating	6
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles	5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	5
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?	5
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	5
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice	5
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	5
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too	5
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	5
Review of Dominik Hangleiter, Jacques Carolan, and Karim P. Y. Thébault’s Analogue Quantum Simulation: A New Instrument for Scientific Understanding - Dominik Hangleiter, Jacques Carolan, and	5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?	5

The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	5
Are There Experimental Virtues?	5
Genericity and Inductive Inference	4
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences	4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	4
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio	4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	4
Review of Emanuele Ratti and Thomas A. Stapleford’s Science, Technology, and Virtues: Contemporary Perspectives - Emanuele Ratti and Thomas A. Stapleford, eds., Science, Technology, and Virtue	4
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	4
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning	4
Abduction and Composition	4
Review of Jean Gayon and Victor Petit’s Knowledge of Life Today - Jean Gayon, Interviewed by Victor Petit. Knowledge of Life Today: Conversations on Biology. London & Hoboken, NJ: ISTE/Joh	4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	4
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?	4
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	4
The Conventionality of Geometry Is Merely Incomplete	4
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction	4
Review of Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny’s From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language - Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language. Cambridge:	4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	4
Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics	4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory	4
Review of Ryan Nefdt’s Language, Science and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics - Ryan Nefdt, Language, Science and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics.	4
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	3
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	3
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?	3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure	3
Review of Jeffrey A. Barrett’s The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Jeffrey A. Barrett, The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), 27	3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb	3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	3
Context and Neural Function	3
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	3
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry	3
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	3
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study	3
Representing Non-actual Targets?	3
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	3
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations	3
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	3
Review of Jonathan Birch’s The Edge of Sentience - Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press. 2024.	3
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships	3
Nothing Matters	3
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments	3
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	3
Review of Matthew J. Brown’s Science and the Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science - Matthew J. Brown, Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science. With a f	2
Not the Measurement Problem’s Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger’s Cat	2
Against Quantitative Primitivism	2
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry	2
Justifying Scientific Progress	2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure	2
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A Lesson from the Picture of a Black Hole	2
Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation	2
Sex Differences in Sexual Desire	2
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science	2
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality	2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit	2
Quo Vadis Wheeler–DeWitt Time?: Challenging Emergent Time in Quantum Cosmology	2
On Values in Fairness Optimization with Machine Learning	2
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory	2
Excess Structure in the Constrained Hamiltonian Formalism	2
On Symmetries and Springs	2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy	2
Review of Richard Pettigrew’s Choosing for Changing Selves - Richard Pettigrew, Choosing for Changing Selves. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), 272 pp., $72.00 (hardcover; also available	2
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation	2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding	2

PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification	2
The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience	2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience	2
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution	2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice	2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations	2
Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence	2
Review of Cameron J. Buckner’s From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence	2
The Emergent Basis of Expert Trust	2
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations	2
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Origin Explanation	2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case	2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function	2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?	2
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”	2
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept	2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?	2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience	2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation	2
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality	2
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Review of Boyd et al.’s Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There - “Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to De	2
Tool Use Beyond Humans	2
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking	2
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern	2
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model	2
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?	1
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?	1
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Symmetries as Humean Metalaws	1
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws	1
Trust of Science as a Public Collective Good	1
Postscript to Richard Jeffrey’s “Conditioning, Kinematics, and Exchangeability”	1
A Domino Theory of Disease	1
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making	1
Towards a Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science	1
Minority Reports: Registering Dissent in Science	1
The Singular Case of Spacetime Singularities in Quantum Gravity	1
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis	1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation	1
Review of Andreas Hüttemann’s A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice - Andreas Hüttemann, A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice. Cambridge University Press (2021), viii+232 pp.	1
Review of Stavros Ioannidis and Stathis Psillos’s Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? - Stavros Ioannidis and Stathis Psillos , Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? Cambrid	1
Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice	1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Preface	1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science	1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?	1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility	1
Referees for Philosophy of Science	1
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Explaining Machine Learning Decisions	1
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality	1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics	1
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation	1
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets	1
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism	1
Review of Jeffrey McDonough’s A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Physics and Philosophy - Jeffrey McDonough, A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Ph	1
Resolving the Reference Class Problem at Scale	1
Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos	1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence	1
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales	1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics	1
Review of Nina Emery’s Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science – ERRATUM	1
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”	1
Navigating in the Dark	1
Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence	1
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research	1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction	1
Why the Liberality Criterion Is Dysfunctional for Theories of Ecological Function	1
What Really Lives in the Swamp? Thought Experiments and the Illustration of Scientific Reasoning	1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”	1
Review of Caitlin Donahue Wylie’s Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes - Caitlin Donahue Wylie, Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2021), 264	1
Philosophy of Science 89, no. 5 Cover and Front Matter – ERRATUM	1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition	1
Reevaluating Heterogeneity in Evidence Synthesis	1
Review of George E. Smith and Raghav Seth’s Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality: A Study in Theory-Mediated Measurement - George E. Smith, and Raghav Seth, Brownian Motion and Molecular Real	1
PSA volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	1
Direct and Circumstantial Traces	1
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare	1
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models	1
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model	1
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?	1
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation	1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)	1
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation	1
Preface	1
Multiple Routes to Progress in Model-Based Economics	1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism	1