Journal for General Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for General Philosophy of Science is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy31
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments25
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem22
Is Automated Discovery Expanding Human Understanding? On the Role of Machine Learning in the Increase of Scientific Understanding21
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development13
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy12
Discussion Note on Hasok Chang: Realism for Realistic People12
Four Degrees of Temporal Becoming9
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge9
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump8
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy7
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science6
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually4
Brigitte Falkenburg: Kant’s Cosmology: From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason. Springer: Cham 2020, 284 + xvii pp., € 108,99, ISBN: 97830305228964
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman4
Nancy J. Nersessian: Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022, 392pp., €62.46 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-0-262-54466-54
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space3
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology3
The Fuzzy Logic of the Chemical Bond3
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?3
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement3
Species of Structure and Physical Dimensions3
Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects2
Angela Potochnik: Science and the Public. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements in the Philosophy of Science), 2024, 84pp., €15.45 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090488282
John Preston (Ed.): Interpreting Mach. Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 287 + xii pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084740162
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems2
Third Conference of the GWP (2019)2
Michel Ghins: Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: A Metaphysics of Causal Powers. Cham: Springer (Synthese Library, Volume 483), 2024, 224pp., €128.39 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-031-54226-82
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*1
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science1
Ludger Pries: Verstehende Kooperation – Herausforderungen für Soziologie und Evolutionsforschung im Anthropozän. Campus: Frankfurt/New York 2021, 446 pp., €34,95, ISBN 978-3-593-51464-21
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions1
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue1
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories1
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy1
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds1
Editorial1
Books Received1
Pure Shape Dynamics, Self-Subsisting Structures, and the Nature of Time1
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice1
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson1
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-41
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief1
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction1
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction1
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response1
Introduction to the Special Issue1
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology1
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)1
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism0
What Does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like?0
Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie, Eleonora Montuschi, Matthew Soleiman, and Ann C. Thresher: The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press,0
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution0
Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 97801996066580
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic0
The Puzzle of Fictional Models0
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium0
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments0
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science0
James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 90pp., €21.23 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090091570
Natural Selection: A Mechanism, A Pathway or A Little Bit of Both?0
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction0
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem0
The Time in Thermal Time0
Introduction0
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 97830307234840
Review of Lefèvre, Wolfgang (ed.). Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant. Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century (2nd edition)0
Questioning the Emergence of Time0
Reductionism, Supervenience, and Carnap’s Account of Empirical Confirmability0
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology0
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
Induction and the Principles of Love in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Nature0
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges0
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
Transaction Costs Economics and Good Scientific Practice0
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy0
Maria M. Sojka: A Heated Debate: Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023, 228pp., €45.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-80
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
Turing’s Philosophy of AI0
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
Mechanistic Constitution as a Natural Law in Better Best Systems0
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
Bessel and the Epistemology of Observational Relativity0
Assessing Vickers’ Plea for Identifying Future-Proof Science0
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances0
On the Preeminence of Euclidean Geometry: Nash’s Embedding Theorems0
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism0
Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Forschung des Geistes von Tieren0
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method0
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency0
What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study0
The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View0
Pluralistic and Monistic Tendencies in the Life Sciences0
The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach0
“Respectful Denunciation, Peaceful Incitement, and Productive Frustration”: the Wonderfully Subversive Project of Hasok Chang’s Realism for Realistic People0
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism0
The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann0
Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory0
Back to Reichenbach0
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
The Physiologist Johannes Peter Müller and the Philosopher Spinoza: An Underestimated Relation0
Demystifying Downward Causation in Biology0
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams0
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
Thomas S. Kuhn: The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science. Edited by Bojana Mladenovic. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2022, xlix + 302 pp., €25,99 (Hardcover), ISB0
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
The Change-Driver Account of Scientific Discovery: Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Discovery of the Expanding Universe0
Metaphysical Pseudo-underdetermination0
The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology0
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott0
Philippe Huneman: Death: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, XIX, 542pp., €116.59 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-031-14416-50
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction0
Klaus Hentschel: Lichtquanten: Die Geschichte des komplexen Konzepts und mentalen Modells von Photonen. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, 2023, 388pp., €37.99 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-3-662-66932-70
Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past0
Demarcation that Makes the Layperson Smart0
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology0
How Do We Observe Relational Observables?0
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics0
Conceptual Structuralism0
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate0
Correction to: Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey‑Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives0
Scientific Unity in Street’s Darwinian Dilemma0
Why We Disagree About the Success of Replications0
Dishonest Testimony and the Virtue of Testimonial Justice: A Naive Bayesian Analysis0
Poetic Understanding and Scientific Knowledge: Models as Aesthetic Descriptions0
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism0
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality0
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion0
On Carnap’s Syntactic and Semantic Explications of Analyticity0
Matthias Neuber, Adam Tamas Tuboly (Eds.): Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer: Cham, 2022, 310 + ix pp., 139,09€ (hardcover), ISBN: 97830308100920
Newtonian Time from Timeless Dynamics0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange0
Archaeology’s Turn to Ontology: A Philosophical Perspective0
Infinite Practices, One Mathematics: Challenging Mathematical Pluralism0
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem0
Wojciech Sady: The Structure of the Relativity and Quantum Revolution in Physics (Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce)0
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
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