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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View	93
Transparency in Complex Computational Systems	64
What Is a Replication?	36
Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions	20
Idealization and Many Aims	18
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination	18
On Robustness in Cosmological Simulations	16
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions	16
Observations, Simulations, and Reasoning in Astrophysics	16
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study	15
Calibration, Coherence, and Consilience in Radiometric Measures of Geologic Time	14
Biological Individuality, Pregnancy, and (Mammalian) Reproduction	13
Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and History and Philosophy of Science	12
Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science	12
Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data	12
Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability	11
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics	11
Stable Engrams and Neural Dynamics	11
How Many Organisms during a Pregnancy?	10
Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles	10
Can Machines Learn How Clouds Work? The Epistemic Implications of Machine Learning Methods in Climate Science	10
Political Legitimacy in the Democratic View: The Case of Climate Services	10
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”	9
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
Open Science and Epistemic Diversity: Friends or Foes?	9

The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism	9
Understanding, Truth, and Epistemic Goals	9
The Dual Landscape Model of Adaptation and Niche Construction	9
Understanding Deep Learning with Statistical Relevance	9
Multiple Realizability from a Causal Perspective	8
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?	8
The Function of Boundary Conditions in the Physical Sciences	8
Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism	8
Toward the Emergence of Nontrivial Compositionality	8
Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation	8
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity	8
Necessary Laws and the Problem of Counterlegals	8
Responsibility for Collective Epistemic Harms	7
Functions and Functioning in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and in Ecology	7
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving	7
Should Animal Welfare Be Defined in Terms of Consciousness?	7
Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets	7
There Are No Mathematical Explanations	7
A Framework for Analyzing Broadly Engaged Philosophy of Science	7
Etiological Kinds	7
From Implausible Artificial Neurons to Idealized Cognitive Models: Rebooting Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence	7
No Time for Time from No-Time	6
Understanding, Values, and the Aims of Science	6
How Dissent on Gender Bias in Academia Affects Science and Society: Learning from the Case of Climate Change Denial	6
On the Evolution of Compositional Language	6
What Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy? The Philosophical Importance of Causal and Pragmatic Details	6
Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry	6
The Epistemic Value of the Living Fossils Concept	6
Proof of Concept Research	6
Conditional Degree of Belief and Bayesian Inference	6
Varieties of Subjectivity	6
Two Notions of Ecological Function	6
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	6
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory	5
‘Ramseyfying’ Probabilistic Comparativism	5
Method-Driven Experiments and the Search for Dark Matter	5
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation	5
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice	5
New Difficulties for the Past Hypothesis	5
Inductive Risk, Understanding, and Opaque Machine Learning Models	5
Commercial Interests and the Erosion of Trust in Science	5
Implementation as Resemblance	5
Through the Fractured Looking Glass	5
The Classical Limit as an Approximation	5
Deep Learning Opacity in Scientific Discovery	5
Well-Ordered Science’s Basic Problem	5
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?	5
Kon-Tiki Experiments	4
True Griceanism: Filling the Gaps in Callender and Cohen’s Account of Scientific Representation	4
Participation and Objectivity	4

Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs	4
How We Think about Human Nature: The Naturalizing Error	4
Epidemiological Evidence: Use at Your ‘Own Risk’?	4
Position Measurements and the Empirical Status of Particles in Bohmian Mechanics	4
Compressibility and the Reality of Patterns	4
Structure and Equivalence	4
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare	4
Severity and Trustworthy Evidence: Foundational Problems versus Misuses of Frequentist Testing	4
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?	4
Cognitive Models Are Distinguished by Content, Not Format	4
Animal Culture and Animal Welfare	4
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?	4
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	4
Local Model-Data Symbiosis in Meteorology and Climate Science	4
Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?	3
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research	3
The Division of Replication Labor	3
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust	3
Understanding and Equivalent Reformulations	3
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism	3
Causation and the Problem of Disagreement	3
Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law	3
Searching for Signatures	3
Rescuing Ontological Individualism	3
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience	3
Open Science for Non-Specialists: Making Open Science Meaningful Beyond the Scientific Community	3
Classical versus Bayesian Statistics	3
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination	3
Gloomy Prospects and Roller Coasters: Finding Coherence in Genome-Wide Association Studies	3
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences	3
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science	3
Can Meaningless Statements Be Approximately True? On Relaxing the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism	3
The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science	3
Convention and the Origins of Ownership	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
Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments	3
The Dynamics of Retraction in Epistemic Networks	3
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?	3
The Limits of Democratizing Science: When Scientists Should Ignore the Public	3
Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science	3
There Is Cause to Randomize	3
Validating the Universe in a Box	3
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation	3
Scientific Theories as Bayesian Nets: Structure and Evidence Sensitivity	3
(Un)Easily Possible Synthetic Biology	2
Novel Tool Development and the Dynamics of Control: The Rodent Touchscreen Operant Chamber as a Case Study	2
How Anti-Humeans Can Embrace a Thermodynamic Reduction of Time’s Causal Arrow	2
Austinian model evaluation	2
Determinism and General Relativity	2
The Nature of a Constant of Nature: The Case of G	2
On the Equivalence of von Neumann and Thermodynamic Entropy	2
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws	2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy	2
What Are Neural Representations? A Cummins Functions Approach	2
Metainduction over Unboundedly Many Prediction Methods: A Reply to Arnold and Sterkenburg	2
Reckoning with Continuum Idealizations: Some Lessons from Soil Hydrology	2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science	2
A Dialogue among Recent Views of Entity Realism	2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification	2
Representing Non-actual Targets?	2
Multiple Realization in Systems Biology	2
Similarity Structure and Emergent Properties	2
Multiple-Models Juxtaposition and Trade-Offs among Modeling Desiderata	2
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms	2
Quantum Randomness and Underdetermination	2
Near-Decomposability and the Timescale Relativity of Causal Representations	2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation	2
Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: A Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective	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
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence	2
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making	2
A Pricean Formalization of Gaia	2
Equivalence and Duality in Electromagnetism	2
Polychrony and the Process View of Computation	2
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation	2
Mate Choice and Null Models	2
Learning from the Shape of Data	2
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets	2