Philosophy of Science

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions22
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination21
Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions21
Idealization and Many Aims20
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study18
Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science16
On Robustness in Cosmological Simulations16
Observations, Simulations, and Reasoning in Astrophysics16
Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry15
Political Legitimacy in the Democratic View: The Case of Climate Services15
Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data15
Biological Individuality, Pregnancy, and (Mammalian) Reproduction14
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism13
Stable Engrams and Neural Dynamics13
Open Science and Epistemic Diversity: Friends or Foes?12
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics12
Understanding, Values, and the Aims of Science12
Can Machines Learn How Clouds Work? The Epistemic Implications of Machine Learning Methods in Climate Science11
Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles11
Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability11
Understanding, Truth, and Epistemic Goals11
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
How Many Organisms during a Pregnancy?10
Understanding Deep Learning with Statistical Relevance10
Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets10
Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation10
A Framework for Analyzing Broadly Engaged Philosophy of Science10
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 (pape9
The Function of Boundary Conditions in the Physical Sciences9
Should Animal Welfare Be Defined in Terms of Consciousness?9
Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism9
Deep Learning Opacity in Scientific Discovery8
How Dissent on Gender Bias in Academia Affects Science and Society: Learning from the Case of Climate Change Denial8
There Are No Mathematical Explanations8
Inductive Risk, Understanding, and Opaque Machine Learning Models8
Toward the Emergence of Nontrivial Compositionality8
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity8
Etiological Kinds8
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare8
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving8
New Difficulties for the Past Hypothesis7
Varieties of Subjectivity7
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination7
No Time for Time from No-Time7
Functions and Functioning in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and in Ecology7
Proof of Concept Research7
Responsibility for Collective Epistemic Harms7
The Epistemic Value of the Living Fossils Concept7
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science6
On the Evolution of Compositional Language6
Commercial Interests and the Erosion of Trust in Science6
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?6
Through the Fractured Looking Glass6
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now6
What Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy? The Philosophical Importance of Causal and Pragmatic Details6
The Dynamics of Retraction in Epistemic Networks6
Implementation as Resemblance6
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory6
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice6
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research6
Two Notions of Ecological Function6
True Griceanism: Filling the Gaps in Callender and Cohen’s Account of Scientific Representation5
Method-Driven Experiments and the Search for Dark Matter5
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism5
Local Model-Data Symbiosis in Meteorology and Climate Science5
Cognitive Models Are Distinguished by Content, Not Format5
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?5
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism5
Animal Culture and Animal Welfare5
Participation and Objectivity5
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation5
Compressibility and the Reality of Patterns4
Structure and Equivalence4
Understanding and Equivalent Reformulations4
Severity and Trustworthy Evidence: Foundational Problems versus Misuses of Frequentist Testing4
Can Meaningless Statements Be Approximately True? On Relaxing the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism4
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation4
Information Deprivation and Democratic Engagement4
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust4
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?4
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement4
The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science4
Open Science for Non-Specialists: Making Open Science Meaningful Beyond the Scientific Community4
Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments4
The Limits of Democratizing Science: When Scientists Should Ignore the Public4
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?4
Epidemiological Evidence: Use at Your ‘Own Risk’?4
Causation and the Problem of Disagreement3
Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science3
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms3
There Is Cause to Randomize3
Scientific Theories as Bayesian Nets: Structure and Evidence Sensitivity3
(Un)Easily Possible Synthetic Biology3
Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?3
Theory Choice as Niche Construction: The Feedback Loop between Scientific Theories and Epistemic Values3
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science3
The Division of Replication Labor3
The Nature of a Constant of Nature: The Case of G3
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences3
Near-Decomposability and the Timescale Relativity of Causal Representations3
Validating the Universe in a Box3
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy3
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account3
Convention and the Origins of Ownership3
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience3
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?3
The Epistemic Projection Approach to Values in Science3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain3
Gloomy Prospects and Roller Coasters: Finding Coherence in Genome-Wide Association Studies3
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement3
A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction3
Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law3
Searching for Signatures3
On Symmetries and Springs3
Rescuing Ontological Individualism3
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 (2023
Replication Is for Meta-Analysis3
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning3
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality2
Polychrony and the Process View of Computation2
Mapping Out the Landscape: A Multi-dimensional Approach to Behavioral Innovation2
Approximate Coherentism and Luck2
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience2
Multiple-Models Juxtaposition and Trade-Offs among Modeling Desiderata2
Novel Tool Development and the Dynamics of Control: The Rodent Touchscreen Operant Chamber as a Case Study2
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws2
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?2
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation2
Empathy and the Evolutionary Emergence of Guilt2
How Anti-Humeans Can Embrace a Thermodynamic Reduction of Time’s Causal Arrow2
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making2
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation2
Representing Non-actual Targets?2
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets2
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism2
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness2
A Pricean Formalization of Gaia2
Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia2
Equivalence and Duality in Electromagnetism2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science2
Measuring as a New Mode of Inquiry That Bridges Evolutionary Game Theory and Cancer Biology2
Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: A Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective2
Mate Choice and Null Models2
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity2
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality2
A Dialogue among Recent Views of Entity Realism2
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification2
Fair Infinite Lotteries, Qualitative Probability, and Regularity2
Causal Pluralism in Philosophy: Empirical Challenges and Alternative Proposals2
Resolving the Raven Paradox: Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, and Inference to Best Explanation2
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis2
Reckoning with Continuum Idealizations: Some Lessons from Soil Hydrology2
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case2
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models2
Speculation Made Material: Experimental Archaeology and Maker’s Knowledge2
Determinism and General Relativity2
Demarcating and Judging Medicine: Review of Broadbent's Philosophy of Medicine - Alex Broadbent, Philosophy of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press (2019), 296 pp., $105.002
What Are Neural Representations? A Cummins Functions Approach2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept2
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise2
An Emerging Dilemma for Reciprocal Causation2
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry2
Against Evidential Pluralism in Pharmaceutical Regulation2
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?2
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology2
Learning from the Shape of Data2
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation2
Ethnography, Archaeology, and the Late Pleistocene2
Metainduction over Unboundedly Many Prediction Methods: A Reply to Arnold and Sterkenburg2
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein2
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