Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	38
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	26
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice	25
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation	20
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	16
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	12
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:	12
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	12
But what is ‘Performativity of Science’? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability	12
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	12
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming	11
Ecological Rationality Without Externalism	11
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference	11
Review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Intellectual Path - K. Brad Wray . Kuhn’s Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge	11
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	10
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Pragmatist Realism about Causation	10
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment	9
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	9
The Logit Model Measurement Problem	9
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	9
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	8
Review of Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard’s Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools - Ann Johnson and Johann	8

Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	8
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science	8
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Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary	8
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Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	8
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets	8
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries	8
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	7
Models as Dogwhistles	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
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	7
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	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
A note on generalized probability functions and the part-whole principle	7
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	7
Biomimetic Epistemology	6
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	6
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	6
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	6
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	6
Accurate Updating	6
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	6
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	6
The Squared Mass-Ratios Puzzle for Comparativism	6
Absolutely Zero Evidence	5
Mental Illness or Political Pathology? A Case Study in the Political Framing of Psychiatric Conditions	5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	5
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles	5
Alternative Biochemistries of Life Making Universal Constraints Testable	5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	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
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	5
Measurement in Murky Waters: Mapping the Complexity of Upstream Methodological Factors	5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice	5
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Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics	4
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Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction	4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	4
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too	4
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	4
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	4

The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	4
Are There Experimental Virtues?	4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	4
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?	4
Trial by Fire: Uncertainty and Adaptive Management in Forest Ecology	4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	4
A Deflationary Account of Quantum Theory and Its Implications for the Complex Numbers	4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	4
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Levels and Hierarchies in Evolution	3
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	3
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	3
Unreasonable Doubt. How Strategic Science Skeptics Exploit the Argument from Disagreement	3
From Global to Local: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine	3
Genericity and Inductive Inference	3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	3
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio	3
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	3
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning	3
The Conventionality of Geometry Is Merely Incomplete	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
Public Trust of Experts in Democratic Societies: Lessons from Follett and Dewey	3
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	3
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.	3
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:	3
Context and Neural Function	3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit	2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry	2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?	2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?	2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience	2
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On Symmetries and Springs	2
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	2
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
Political Strategies for Mechanistic Evidence: Wedging and Buttressing Access to Contraception and Abortion Pills	2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding	2
Why Scientists Should Not Show and Tell	2
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	2
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Not the Measurement Problem’s Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger’s Cat	2
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships	2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function	2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments	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
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure	2
The Problem of the Missing Model	2
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept	2
Peirce in the Machine: How Mixture of Experts Models Perform Hypothesis Construction – ERRATUM	2
From empirical symmetries to laws: Newtonian gravitation as an effective field theory	2
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice	2
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience	2
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	2
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A Lesson from the Picture of a Black Hole	2
Solving the Racial Health Disparities Problem	2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?	2
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	2
Nothing Matters	2
Justifying Scientific Progress	2
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Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy	2
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	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 Psychologist’s Green Thumb	2
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Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	2
Against Quantitative Primitivism	2
Review of Bryan W. Roberts’s Reversing the Arrow of Time - Bryan W. Roberts, Reversing the Arrow of Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 2	2
Magic Bullet or Marginal Bet—Does Precision Medicine Offer the Best Hope for Sick Individuals and Sick Populations?	2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations	2

Quantum Quasi-Realism	2
Peirce, Abduction, and Inverse Problems in the Geosciences	2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure	2
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry	1
Mauricio Suárez , Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2024), 328 pp., $35.00.	1
Excess Structure in the Constrained Hamiltonian Formalism	1
Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence	1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics	1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?	1
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Preface	1
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?	1
Reevaluating Heterogeneity in Evidence Synthesis	1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics	1
Review of Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther’s Our Genes - Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics. Cambri	1
Theoretical Virtue, Transient Diversity, and the Epistemic Success of Scientific Communities	1
An Exploration of Parameter Duality in Statistical Inference	1
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?	1
Origin Explanation	1
Resolving the Reference Class Problem at Scale	1
Tool Use Beyond Humans	1
Science Without Trust	1
The Emergent Basis of Expert Trust	1
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution	1
Non-causal Explanations of Social and Biological Networks	1
On Values in Fairness Optimization with Machine Learning	1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility	1
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making	1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)	1
What Really Lives in the Swamp? Thought Experiments and the Illustration of Scientific Reasoning	1
Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction	1
Measuring Biological Function in Biomechanics: Observations and Consequences	1
Navigating in the Dark	1
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Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?	1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”	1
Review of Roberta L. Millstein’s The Land Is Our Community - Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the	1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction	1
Beyond finite additivity	1
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism	1
Quo Vadis Wheeler–DeWitt Time?: Challenging Emergent Time in Quantum Cosmology	1
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare	1
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Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence	1
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations	1
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PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
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What Is Wrong with Rerandomization in Randomized Field Experiments?	1
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization	1
Minority Reports: Registering Dissent in Science	1
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An ambiguity in the notion of a “biomedical” approach to mental health	1
Multiple Routes to Progress in Model-Based Economics	1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science	1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation	1
Is the Probabilistic No-Miracle Argument Inferentially Fallacious?	1
Expertise-Objections to the Argument from Inductive Risk	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
Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?	1
Reduction as a Value: The Case of Genetic Reductionism in Evolutionary Theory	1
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis	1
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory	1
Why the Liberality Criterion Is Dysfunctional for Theories of Ecological Function	1
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking	1
Understanding Symptoms: Diagnosis, Cure, and Bodily Reintegration	0
Can Generative AI Produce Novel Evidence?	0
The Dilemma of Ahistorical Teleosemantics	0
Comparative Learning	0
Trading Evidence: The Role of Models in Interfield Unification	0
Character individuation: functional, descriptive, and developmental	0
Understanding (Gender) Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: The Case of ADHD – ERRATUM	0
Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?	0
Learning to Be Epistemic Altruists	0
Human Computers as Instruments	0
The Centrality of Progressive Realism to the Scientific Realism Debate	0
Construct Validity in Automated Counterterrorism Analysis	0
Object-Induction and Pool-Determination in the Meta-Inductive Approach. A Reply to Bakshi	0
Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull, The Einstein Paradox: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xxv + 369 pp. ISBN 9781139028493.	0
Method and Metaphysics: Essay Review of Katherine Brading’s Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science	0
Confidence in Probabilistic Risk Assessment	0
What’s Low Mood All About? An Indicative-Imperative Account of Low Mood’s Content	0
What Is It About Vitamins? Vitamins as Investigative Kinds	0
Mikkel Gerken , Scientific Testimony. Its Roles in Science and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022), 322 pp., $100.00.	0
Formal Verification, Scientific Code, and the Epistemological Heterogeneity of Computational Science	0
Characterizing and Measuring Racial Discrimination in Public Health Research	0
Supposition and (Statistical) Models	0
Degrees of Confirmation Beyond Probabilities	0
Review of James Read’s Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity	0
Random Foraging and Perceived Randomness	0
That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance	0
Mathematizing Metaphysics: The Case of the Principle of Least Action	0
Torsion in the Classical Spacetime Context	0