Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions	22
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination	21
Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions	21
Idealization and Many Aims	20
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study	18
Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science	16
On Robustness in Cosmological Simulations	16
Observations, Simulations, and Reasoning in Astrophysics	16
Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry	15
Political Legitimacy in the Democratic View: The Case of Climate Services	15
Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data	15
Biological Individuality, Pregnancy, and (Mammalian) Reproduction	14
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism	13
Stable Engrams and Neural Dynamics	13
Open Science and Epistemic Diversity: Friends or Foes?	12
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics	12
Understanding, Values, and the Aims of Science	12
Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability	11
Understanding, Truth, and Epistemic Goals	11
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”	11
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?	11
Can Machines Learn How Clouds Work? The Epistemic Implications of Machine Learning Methods in Climate Science	11
Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles	11
How Many Organisms during a Pregnancy?	10
Understanding Deep Learning with Statistical Relevance	10

Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets	10
Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation	10
A Framework for Analyzing Broadly Engaged Philosophy of Science	10
Nancy Cartwright, Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better. Chicago: Open Court (2019), 172 pp., $24.95 (pape	9
The Function of Boundary Conditions in the Physical Sciences	9
Should Animal Welfare Be Defined in Terms of Consciousness?	9
Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism	9
Deep Learning Opacity in Scientific Discovery	8
How Dissent on Gender Bias in Academia Affects Science and Society: Learning from the Case of Climate Change Denial	8
There Are No Mathematical Explanations	8
Inductive Risk, Understanding, and Opaque Machine Learning Models	8
Toward the Emergence of Nontrivial Compositionality	8
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity	8
Etiological Kinds	8
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare	8
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving	8
New Difficulties for the Past Hypothesis	7
Varieties of Subjectivity	7
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination	7
No Time for Time from No-Time	7
Functions and Functioning in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and in Ecology	7
Proof of Concept Research	7
Responsibility for Collective Epistemic Harms	7
The Epistemic Value of the Living Fossils Concept	7
Commercial Interests and the Erosion of Trust in Science	6
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?	6
Through the Fractured Looking Glass	6
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	6
What Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy? The Philosophical Importance of Causal and Pragmatic Details	6
The Dynamics of Retraction in Epistemic Networks	6
Implementation as Resemblance	6
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory	6
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice	6
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research	6
Two Notions of Ecological Function	6
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science	6
On the Evolution of Compositional Language	6
True Griceanism: Filling the Gaps in Callender and Cohen’s Account of Scientific Representation	5
Method-Driven Experiments and the Search for Dark Matter	5
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism	5
Local Model-Data Symbiosis in Meteorology and Climate Science	5
Cognitive Models Are Distinguished by Content, Not Format	5
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?	5
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	5
Animal Culture and Animal Welfare	5
Participation and Objectivity	5
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation	5
Understanding and Equivalent Reformulations	4
Severity and Trustworthy Evidence: Foundational Problems versus Misuses of Frequentist Testing	4
Can Meaningless Statements Be Approximately True? On Relaxing the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism	4

Information Deprivation and Democratic Engagement	4
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust	4
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation	4
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?	4
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs	4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement	4
The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science	4
Open Science for Non-Specialists: Making Open Science Meaningful Beyond the Scientific Community	4
Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments	4
The Limits of Democratizing Science: When Scientists Should Ignore the Public	4
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?	4
Epidemiological Evidence: Use at Your ‘Own Risk’?	4
Compressibility and the Reality of Patterns	4
Structure and Equivalence	4
Searching for Signatures	3
On Symmetries and Springs	3
Rescuing Ontological Individualism	3
Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith, Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness. Glasgow: William Collins (202	3
Replication Is for Meta-Analysis	3
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning	3
Causation and the Problem of Disagreement	3
Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science	3
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms	3
There Is Cause to Randomize	3
Scientific Theories as Bayesian Nets: Structure and Evidence Sensitivity	3
(Un)Easily Possible Synthetic Biology	3
Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?	3
Theory Choice as Niche Construction: The Feedback Loop between Scientific Theories and Epistemic Values	3
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	3
The Division of Replication Labor	3
The Nature of a Constant of Nature: The Case of G	3
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences	3
Near-Decomposability and the Timescale Relativity of Causal Representations	3
Validating the Universe in a Box	3
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy	3
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	3
Convention and the Origins of Ownership	3
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience	3
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?	3
The Epistemic Projection Approach to Values in Science	3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	3
Gloomy Prospects and Roller Coasters: Finding Coherence in Genome-Wide Association Studies	3
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement	3
A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction	3
Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law	3
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry	2
Against Evidential Pluralism in Pharmaceutical Regulation	2
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?	2
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	2
Learning from the Shape of Data	2
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation	2
Ethnography, Archaeology, and the Late Pleistocene	2
Metainduction over Unboundedly Many Prediction Methods: A Reply to Arnold and Sterkenburg	2
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein	2
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality	2
Polychrony and the Process View of Computation	2
Mapping Out the Landscape: A Multi-dimensional Approach to Behavioral Innovation	2
Approximate Coherentism and Luck	2
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience	2
Multiple-Models Juxtaposition and Trade-Offs among Modeling Desiderata	2
Novel Tool Development and the Dynamics of Control: The Rodent Touchscreen Operant Chamber as a Case Study	2
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws	2
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?	2
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation	2
Empathy and the Evolutionary Emergence of Guilt	2
How Anti-Humeans Can Embrace a Thermodynamic Reduction of Time’s Causal Arrow	2
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making	2
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics	2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation	2
Representing Non-actual Targets?	2
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets	2
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	2
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	2
A Pricean Formalization of Gaia	2
Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia	2
Equivalence and Duality in Electromagnetism	2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science	2
Measuring as a New Mode of Inquiry That Bridges Evolutionary Game Theory and Cancer Biology	2
Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: A Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective	2
Mate Choice and Null Models	2

The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	2
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality	2
A Dialogue among Recent Views of Entity Realism	2
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence	2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification	2
Fair Infinite Lotteries, Qualitative Probability, and Regularity	2
Causal Pluralism in Philosophy: Empirical Challenges and Alternative Proposals	2
Resolving the Raven Paradox: Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, and Inference to Best Explanation	2
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis	2
Reckoning with Continuum Idealizations: Some Lessons from Soil Hydrology	2
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case	2
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	2
Speculation Made Material: Experimental Archaeology and Maker’s Knowledge	2
Determinism and General Relativity	2
Demarcating and Judging Medicine: Review of Broadbent's Philosophy of Medicine - Alex Broadbent, Philosophy of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press (2019), 296 pp., $105.00	2
What Are Neural Representations? A Cummins Functions Approach	2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept	2
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise	2
An Emerging Dilemma for Reciprocal Causation	2
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach	2
The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy	1
Random Foraging and Perceived Randomness	1
Exploring an Evolutionary Paradox: An Analysis of the “Spite Effect” and the “Nearly Neutral Effect” in Synergistic Models of Finite Populations	1
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences	1
Can Quantum Thermodynamics Save Time?	1
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	1
Universality and Modeling Limiting Behaviors	1
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	1
Power Emergentism and the Collapse Problem	1
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	1
g as Bridge Model	1
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?	1
Structuring Institutions for Responsible and Accountable Science	1
Causal Agnosticism About Race: Variable Selection Problems in Causal Inference	1
Genericity and Inductive Inference	1
Models as Dogwhistles	1
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	1
From Fitness-Centered to Trait-Centered Explanations: What Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality Teach Us About Fitness	1
Austinian model evaluation	1
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis	1
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement	1
How American Is Pragmatism?	1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition	1
Vassend on Verisimilitude and Counterfactual Probabilities	1
Positional Information and the Measurement of Specificity	1
Epidemics from the Population Perspective	1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility	1
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality	1
Philosophy of the Field, in the Field: Philosophy of Science Association 2020/2021 Presidential Address	1
Concepts of Actionability in Precision Oncology	1
Scurvy and the Ontology of Natural Kinds	1
Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer, What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), 296 pp., $105.00.	1
Conventional Choices in Outcome Measures Influence Meta-Analytic Results	1
Reintroducing Kin Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences	1
Tracking Confirmation	1
Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models	1
On Internal Structure, Categorical Structure, and Representation	1
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”	1
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	1
Is Lottery a Better Way of Resource Distribution Than Baseline Funding?	1
How to Not Secure Public Trust in Science: Representative Values Versus Polarization and Marginalization	1
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal	1
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis	1
Crowding out Memetic Explanation	1
The Representational Role of Sophisticated Theories	1
Transformative Experience, Awareness Growth, and the Limits of Rational Planning	1
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales	1
Dutch Books and Logical Form	1
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	1
Multiscale Modeling in Neuroethology: The Significance of the Mesoscale	1
Explaining Neural Transitions through Resource Constraints	1
Variable Definition and Independent Components	1
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations	1
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	1
Paleoclimate Proxies and the Benefits of Disunity	1
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction	1
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy	1
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 Unive	1
Simulation and Calibration: Mitigating Uncertainty	1
Robustness of Climate Models	1
Rethinking the Conceptual Space for Science in Society after the VFI	1
Crossing Levels: Meta-induction and the Problem of Induction	1
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	1
That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance	1
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?	1
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	1
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model	1
Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge	1
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations	1
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics	1
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z	1
The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games	1
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern	1