OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Philosophy of Science is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation	27
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	23
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	19
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 Approach	17
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving	16
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal	13
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	13
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	12
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	11
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	11
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	11
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	11
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics	11
The Logit Model Measurement Problem	11
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 Bugs	9
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	8
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: Ho	8
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	8
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	8
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	8
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment	8

How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	7
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review	7
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	7
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?	7
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	6
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	6
How the structure of scientific communities could impact the public uptake of uncertain science	6
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 U	6
What can we learn about accuracy from machine learning?	6
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	6
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
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 Point	5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	5
Structural Decision Theory	5
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	5
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust	5
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	5
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence	5
Absolutely Zero Evidence	5
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis	5
Models as Dogwhistles	5
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning	5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	5
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement	5
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	5
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	4
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism	4
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 Choice	4
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	4
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	4
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?	4
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	4
Biomimetic Epistemology	4
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	4
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	3

Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	3
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation	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
Learning from the Shape of Data	3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement	3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences	3
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	3
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	3
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	3
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory	3
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences	3
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	3
Abduction and Composition	3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	3
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	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
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	3
Genericity and Inductive Inference	3
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	2
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments	2
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	2
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	2
Context and Neural Function	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
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	2
On Symmetries and Springs	2
Dutch Books and Logical Form	2
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Sex Differences in Sexual Desire	2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science	2
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z	2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”	2
Representing Non-actual Targets?	2
Tracking Confirmation	2
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?	2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification	2
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice	2
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	2
Justifying Scientific Progress	2
Approximate Coherentism and Luck	2
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	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
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern	2
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	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
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?	2
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry	2
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb	2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure	2
Determinism and General Relativity	2
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 Explanations	2
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	2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience	2
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding	2
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study	2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?	2
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	2