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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation27
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now23
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction19
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:18
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach17
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving16
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal13
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller13
In Memoriam: Colin Howson12
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution11
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change11
Dejustifying Scientific Progress11
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity11
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics11
The Logit Model Measurement Problem11
Roberto Gronda, Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Synthese Library 421. Dordrecht: Springer (2020), 204 pp., €88.39 (cloth).10
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs9
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism8
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: Ho8
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism8
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science8
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Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment8
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models7
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review7
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds7
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?7
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility6
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation6
How the structure of scientific communities could impact the public uptake of uncertain science6
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 U6
What can we learn about accuracy from machine learning?6
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Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations6
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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).6
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles5
Structural Decision Theory5
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction5
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust5
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation5
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence5
Absolutely Zero Evidence5
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis5
Models as Dogwhistles5
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents5
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement5
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology5
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS4
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism4
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 4
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice4
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni4
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 20224
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity4
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?4
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality4
Biomimetic Epistemology4
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?4
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The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account4
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A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation3
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches3
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations3
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Infrared Cancellation and Measurement3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences3
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation3
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 Virtue3
Learning from the Shape of Data3
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory3
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences3
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/Joh3
Abduction and Composition3
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA3
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer3
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
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups3
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models3
Genericity and Inductive Inference3
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern2
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study2
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 f2
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Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?2
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure2
Determinism and General Relativity2
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?2
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?2
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations2
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), 272
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience2
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning2
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding2
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?2
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty2
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice2
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments2
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Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain2
Context and Neural Function2
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
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms2
On Symmetries and Springs2
Dutch Books and Logical Form2
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Sex Differences in Sexual Desire2
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science2
Representing Non-actual Targets?2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”2
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?2
Tracking Confirmation2
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification2
Justifying Scientific Progress2
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles2
Approximate Coherentism and Luck2
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM2
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
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Navigating in the Dark1
How American Is Pragmatism?1
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On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations1
Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation1
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation1
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science1
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics1
Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos1
Tool Use Beyond Humans1
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The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction1
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?1
Beyond finite additivity1
A Domino Theory of Disease1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility1
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research1
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Explanatory Coherence and the Impossibility of Confirmation by Coherence1
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
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions1
Structural Humility1
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis1
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice1
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making1
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality1
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism1
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience1
On the Limits of Cultural Relativism as a Debiasing Method1
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).1
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Minority Reports: Registering Dissent in Science1
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account1
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us About Structure?1
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking1
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 De1
Symmetries as Humean Metalaws1
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The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience1
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation1
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality1
Preface1
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation1
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function1
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?1
An Exploration of Parameter Duality in Statistical Inference1
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Trust of Science as a Public Collective Good1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition1
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Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality1
Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence1
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations1
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?1
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case1
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare1
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept1
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“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model1
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation1
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry1
Hume’s Externalist Gambit1
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory1
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Preface1
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution1
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”1
The Substantial Role of Weyl Symmetry in Deriving General Relativity from String Theory1
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation1
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure1
Referees for Philosophy of Science1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science1
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? Cambrid1
Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)1
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Against Quantitative Primitivism1
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization1
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics1
Resolving the Reference Class Problem At Scale1
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice1
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy1
Book Review: “Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity” by James Read0
Mathematizing Metaphysics: The Case of the Principle of Least Action0
Should Animal Welfare Be Defined in Terms of Consciousness?0
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?0
That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance0
Confidence in Probabilistic Risk Assessment0
Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models0
Method and Metaphysics: Essay review of Katherine Brading’s Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science0
Perspectival Instruments0
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms0
Comparative Learning0
Measuring as a New Mode of Inquiry That Bridges Evolutionary Game Theory and Cancer Biology0
Trading Evidence: The Role of Models in Interfield Unification0
Open Science and Epistemic Diversity: Friends or Foes?0
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Random Foraging and Perceived Randomness0
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