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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	37
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	24
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice	24
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation	17
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	15
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:	12
Ecological Rationality Without Externalism	12
Pragmatist Realism about Causation	11
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	11
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	11
Review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Intellectual Path - K. Brad Wray . Kuhn’s Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge	11
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming	11
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	11
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference	10
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	10
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	10
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	9
The Logit Model Measurement Problem	9
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	9
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	9
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 Johann	8
Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary	8
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	8

How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science	8
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets	8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	8
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries	8
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	8
PSA volume 93 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	7
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	7
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	7
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	7
Models as Dogwhistles	7
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
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
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	6
Accurate Updating	6
Biomimetic Epistemology	6
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	6
The Squared Mass-Ratios Puzzle for Comparativism	6
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	6
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	6
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	6
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	6
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	6
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	6
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Absolutely Zero Evidence	5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	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
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice	5
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	4
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio	4
Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics	4
Are There Experimental Virtues?	4
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	4
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	4
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too	4
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction	4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	4
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles	4

PSA volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	4
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?	4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	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
Public Trust of Experts in Democratic Societies: Lessons from Follett and Dewey	3
Genericity and Inductive Inference	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
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	3
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	3
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	3
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	3
Review of Bryan W. Roberts’s Reversing the Arrow of Time	3
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:	3
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning	3
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	3
The Conventionality of Geometry Is Merely Incomplete	3
Levels and Hierarchies in Evolution	3
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.	3
Context and Neural Function	3
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	3
Political Strategies for Mechanistic Evidence: Wedging and Buttressing Access to Contraception and Abortion Pills	2
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?	2
Not the Measurement Problem’s Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger’s Cat	2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure	2
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit	2
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A Lesson from the Picture of a Black Hole	2
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?	2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience	2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice	2
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	2
Review of Cameron J. Buckner’s From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence	2
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	2
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Unreasonable Doubt. How Strategic Science Skeptics Exploit the Argument from Disagreement	2
Peirce in the Machine: How Mixture of Experts Models Perform Hypothesis Construction – ERRATUM	2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function	2
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships	2
Magic bullet or marginal bet—does precision medicine offer the best hope for sick individuals and sick populations?	2
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	2
Origin Explanation	2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure	2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?	2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding	2
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	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
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience	2
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb	2
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	2
Why Scientists Should Not Show and Tell	2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry	2
Non-causal Explanations of Social and Biological Networks	2
Mauricio Suárez , Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2024), 328 pp., $35.00.	2
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy	2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments	2
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 De	2
Nothing Matters	2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept	2
Against Quantitative Primitivism	2
Justifying Scientific Progress	2
On Symmetries and Springs	2
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations	2
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	2