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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Essay Review: Complexity Features, (Putative) Truisms, and the Ising Model21
Donata Romizi: Dem wissenschaftlichen Determinismus auf der Spur: Von der klassischen Mechanik zur Entstehung der Quantenphysik. Karl Alber: Freiburg/München 2019, 504 pp., € 69.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 18
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy16
Introduction to the Special Issue13
Steven French & Juha Saatsi (Eds.): Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2020, 336 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978019881497911
Cooperative Division of Cognitive Labour: The Social Epistemology of Photosynthesis Research11
Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy9
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction7
Quantities as Metrical Coordinative Definitions and as Counts: On Some Definitional Structures in the New SI Brochure7
Third Conference of the GWP (2019)7
The Concept of the Universe in Physical Cosmology6
Models, Unification, and Simulations: Margaret C. Morrison (1954–2021)6
John Preston (Ed.): Interpreting Mach. Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 287 + xii pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084740165
Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Forschung des Geistes von Tieren5
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem4
Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach4
Why Computer Simulation Cannot Be an End of Thought Experimentation4
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments3
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic3
Non-Tethered Understanding and Scientific Pluralism3
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method3
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), ISB3
Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects3
Wojciech Sady: The Structure of the Relativity and Quantum Revolution in Physics (Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce)3
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology3
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott3
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 97830307234843
What Does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like?3
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium3
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development3
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science2
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy2
N. R. Hanson and von Uexküll: A Biosemiotic and Evolutionary Account of Theories2
Thematic Reclassifications and Emerging Sciences2
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism2
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism2
The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology2
Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past2
Conceptual Structuralism2
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction2
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue2
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction2
Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real Causation1
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency1
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson1
Mario Bunge (1919–2020): Conjoining Philosophy of Science and Scientific Philosophy1
Back to Reichenbach1
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science1
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy1
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*1
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments1
Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives1
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem1
The Puzzle of Fictional Models1
The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann1
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate1
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump1
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism1
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-41
Correction to: Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey‑Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives1
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science1
Subatomic Particles, Epistemic Stances, and Kantian Antinomies1
Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda1
Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge1
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology1
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality1
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)1
Editorial0
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions0
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman0
Pluralizing Darwin: Making Counter-Factual History of Science Significant0
What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study0
Thinking Crossroads: from Scientific Pluralism to Pluralist History of Science0
Dispositional Realism, Conflicting Models and Contrastive Explanation0
Should We Strive to Make Science Bias-Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis0
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
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
Disagreement About Scientific Ontology0
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams0
Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy0
Kostas Kampourakis and Tobias Uller (Eds.): Philosophy of Science for Biologists. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2020, 330 + x pp., £69.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084918390
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory0
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion0
Transaction Costs Economics and Good Scientific Practice0
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
Books Received0
James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 90pp., €21.23 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090091570
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response0
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity0
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap: An Epistemological Look0
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement0
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Scientific Modeling Versus Engineering Modeling: Similarities and Dissimilarities0
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction0
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing0
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems0
Introduction0
Steven French: There Are No Such Things as Theories0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge0
On the Explanatory Power of Dispositional Realism0
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons0
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges0
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: 97830305228960
Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together0
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief0
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space0
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange0
Introduction: Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-)Entanglement0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology0
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually0
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution0
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
On the Preeminence of Euclidean Geometry: Nash’s Embedding Theorems0
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds0
Induction and the Principles of Love in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Nature0
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?0
Ludger Pries: Verstehende Kooperation – Herausforderungen für Soziologie und Evolutionsforschung im Anthropozän. Campus: Frankfurt/New York 2021, 446 pp., €34,95, ISBN 978-3-593-51464-20
The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism0
Questioning the Emergence of Time0
Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory without Homeostatic Mechanisms: Two Recent Attempts and their Costs0
Vittorio Hösle: Kritik der verstehenden Vernunft: Eine Grundlegung der Geisteswissenschaften. C.H. Beck: München 2018, 503 pp., 38,00€ (hardcover), ISBN: 97834067258830
Demystifying Downward Causation in Biology0
The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics0
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology0
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories0
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
Lara Huber: Relevanz: Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Meiner: Hamburg 2020, 189 pp., € 22.00, ISBN: 97837873379720
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem0
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
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