Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophy of Science is 0. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Perspectival Instruments22
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter21
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter18
Abduction and Composition15
Referees for Philosophy of Science13
Random Foraging and Perceived Randomness12
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation12
Deception as Mimicry11
Growth From Uncertainty: Understanding the Replication ‘Crisis’ in Infant Cognition11
Multiscale Modeling in Neuroethology: The Significance of the Mesoscale11
Matthias Neuber and Adam Tamas Tuboly, eds., Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 348 pp. $159.99. Hardcover and softcover (2022).11
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement10
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach10
The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games9
Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law9
Dejustifying Scientific Progress9
PSA volume 88 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model8
Book Review: “Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity” by James Read8
Elaine Landry, ed., Categories for the Working Philosopher. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), xiv+417 pp., $110.00 (cloth).8
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. 8
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account8
A Structural Justification of Probabilism: From Partition Invariance to Subjective Probability8
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models8
A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation7
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller7
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales7
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter7
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 Virtue6
Comparative Learning6
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice6
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity6
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction6
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality6
Maria Kronfeldner, What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2018), 336 pp., $45.00 (cloth).6
There Is Cause to Randomize6
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:6
How American Is Pragmatism?6
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now6
There Are No Mathematical Explanations5
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model5
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis5
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws5
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models5
A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction4
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution4
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution4
Can Meaningless Statements Be Approximately True? On Relaxing the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory4
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal4
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence4
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving4
Locating Values in the Space of Possibilities4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science4
That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance4
Classical American Pragmatism as Antiscientism4
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms4
Proof of Concept Research3
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations3
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement3
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches3
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
Genericity and Inductive Inference3
Re-Assessing the Experiment / Observation-Divide3
Equivalence and Convention3
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise3
Measuring as a New Mode of Inquiry That Bridges Evolutionary Game Theory and Cancer Biology3
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?3
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change3
In Memoriam: Colin Howson3
The Elastic Ruler: Placebo Responses, Clinical Trials, and Medical Knowledge3
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation3
PSA volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter3
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking3
Is Lottery a Better Way of Resource Distribution Than Baseline Funding?3
What Are Neural Representations? A Cummins Functions Approach3
Confidence in Probabilistic Risk Assessment3
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory3
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry3
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Academic Journals, Incentives, and the Quality of Peer Review: A Model2
The Nature of a Constant of Nature: The Case of G2
Approximate Coherentism and Luck2
Crossing Levels: Meta-induction and the Problem of Induction2
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?2
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs2
A Pricean Formalization of Gaia2
Structuring Institutions for Responsible and Accountable Science2
Health and Disease: Between Naturalism and Normativism2
g as Bridge Model2
Review of Alyssa Ney’s The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics - Alyssa Ney, The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics. New York: Oxford Unive2
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction2
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines2
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/Joh2
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball2
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences2
Roberto Gronda, Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Synthese Library 421. Dordrecht: Springer (2020), 204 pp., €88.39 (cloth).2
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: 2
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: Ho2
How to Think with the Global South2
PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?2
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism2
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics2
The Limits of Democratizing Science: When Scientists Should Ignore the Public2
Connecting the Revolutionary with the Conventional: Rethinking the Differences between the Works of Brouwer, Heyting, and Weyl2
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models2
Power Emergentism and the Collapse Problem2
Ethnography, Archaeology, and the Late Pleistocene2
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
Exploratory Analysis and the Expected Value of Experimentation2
Understanding and Equivalent Reformulations2
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)2
Determinism and General Relativity2
Severity and Trustworthy Evidence: Foundational Problems versus Misuses of Frequentist Testing2
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations2
Variable Definition and Independent Components2
Review of Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance2
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”2
Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models2
Implementation as Resemblance2
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science2
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences2
Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science2
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?2
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Philosophy of the Field, in the Field: Philosophy of Science Association 2020/2021 Presidential Address2
Preface2
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment2
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models2
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science2
Robustness of Climate Models2
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein2
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?1
Review of Adrian Currie’s Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences - Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. Cambridge, 1
Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?1
Review of Charles H. Pence’sThe Causal Structure of Natural Selection- Charles H. Pence, The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. Elements in the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge U1
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination1
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Review of Carol E. Cleland’s The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for Life as We Don’t Know It - Carol E. Cleland, The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for Life as1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics1
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust1
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility1
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis1
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction1
Austinian model evaluation1
On Cognitive Modeling and Other Minds1
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism1
Models as Dogwhistles1
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction1
How Dissent on Gender Bias in Academia Affects Science and Society: Learning from the Case of Climate Change Denial1
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice1
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology1
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?1
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?1
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?1
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Representing Non-actual Targets?1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Reflexivity, Functional Reference, and Modularity: Alternative Targets for Language Origins1
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?1
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations1
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism1
PSA volume 90 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb1
Replication Is for Meta-Analysis1
The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy1
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty1
Vassend on Verisimilitude and Counterfactual Probabilities1
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).1
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation1
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study1
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Causation and the Problem of Disagreement1
Henderson on Meta-Induction and the Problem of Induction1
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science1
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity1
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization1
T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity1
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds1
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis1
What can we learn about accuracy from machine learning?1
Review of Slobodan Perović’s From Data to Quanta – Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics - Slobodan Perovi ć, From Data to Quanta – Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics. Chicago, IL: The University of Chi1
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited1
Causal History, Statistical Relevance, and Explanatory Power1
Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments1
The Epistemic Projection Approach to Values in Science1
Two Notions of Ecological Function1
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making1
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?1
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions1
Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence1
Review of William Demopoulos’ On Theories: Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics - William Demopoulos, On Theories: Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics,1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility1
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation1
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles1
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation1
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
The Epistemic Value of the Living Fossils Concept1
Context and Neural Function1
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning1
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z1
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain1
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms1
Transformative Experience, Awareness Growth, and the Limits of Rational Planning1
The Logit Model Measurement Problem1
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare1
A Causal-Role Account of Ecological Role Functions1
Fair Infinite Lotteries, Qualitative Probability, and Regularity1
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement1
Temporal Neutrality Implies Exponential Temporal Discounting1
The Dynamics of Retraction in Epistemic Networks1
Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge1
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review1
The Insufficiency of Statistics for Detecting Racial Discrimination by Police0
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science0
A Domino Theory of Disease0
On Symmetries and Springs0
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Torsion in the Classical Spacetime Context0
Bamboozled by Bonferroni0
Structural Humility0
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?0
Functions and Populations: Sharpening the Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function0
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances0
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation0
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice0
PSA volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Causal Constraints in the Life and Social Sciences0
Philosophy in Science: Some Personal Reflections0
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics0
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 0
The Propositional Account of Effective Theories0
Do Machine Learning Models Represent Their Targets?0
Against Quantitative Primitivism0
Individuating Cognitive Characters: Lessons from Praying Mantises and Plants0
The Unconscious Mind Worry: A Mechanistic-Explanatory Strategy0
Hume’s Externalist Gambit0
Resolving the Raven Paradox: Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, and Inference to Best Explanation0
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework0
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