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Papers

(The TQCC of Philosophy of Science is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming	33
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	27
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	26
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	25
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice	25
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	20
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach	19
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference	18
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	17
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	17
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:	15
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	14
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	14
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving	14
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal	14
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation	14
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	13
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	12
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	12
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics	11
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment	9
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: How	9
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	9
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	9

The Logit Model Measurement Problem	9
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review	9
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs	8
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science	8
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	8
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	8
Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary	8
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?	8
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement	8
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	8
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	8
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries	8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	8
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets	8
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
The squared mass-ratios puzzle for Comparativism	7
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis	7
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	7
Models as Dogwhistles	7
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	7
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust	7
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning	7
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	7
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence	6
Biomimetic Epistemology	6
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	6
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	6
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point	6
Structural Decision Theory	6
Accurate Updating	6
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	6
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	6
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	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
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?	5
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?	5
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	5
Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics	5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	5
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	5
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	5
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	5
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	5

Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles	5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	5
Absolutely Zero Evidence	5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice	5
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	5
Are there experimental virtues?	5
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too	5
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	4
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation	4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory	4
Genericity and Inductive Inference	4
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Learning from the Shape of Data	4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
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:	4
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio	4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	4
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.	4
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences	4
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning	4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement	4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction	4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
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	4
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	4
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
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.	4
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	4
Context and Neural Function	4
Abduction and Composition	4
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	4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	4
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations	3
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study	3
Justifying Scientific Progress	3
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A Lesson from the Picture of a Black Hole	3
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry	3
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb	3
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?	3
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	3
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	3
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?	3
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?	3
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”	3
Nothing Matters	3
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments	3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	3
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	3
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	3
Dutch Books and Logical Form	3
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification	3
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships	3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure	3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	3
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	3
Representing Non-actual Targets?	3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?	3