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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges20
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science16
Identical Quantum Particles as Distinguishable Objects14
Can Reasons and Values Influence Action: How Might Intentional Agency Work Physiologically?12
Presentist History for Pluralist Science12
What Does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like?11
Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach10
The Multicriterial Approach to the Problem of Demarcation9
Should We Strive to Make Science Bias-Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis9
The Case Against Factorism: On the Labels of $$\otimes$$-Factor Hilbert-Spaces of Similar Particles in Quantum Mechanics8
Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry in a Social Context: An Introduction7
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy6
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory6
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem6
Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory without Homeostatic Mechanisms: Two Recent Attempts and their Costs5
Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda5
Conceptual Structuralism5
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem5
Machine Learning and the Future of Scientific Explanation5
Typicality and Minutis Rectis Laws: From Physics to Sociology5
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems4
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments4
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction3
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science3
Proof, Explanation, and Justification in Mathematical Practice3
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson3
Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together3
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing3
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction3
Cooperative Division of Cognitive Labour: The Social Epistemology of Photosynthesis Research3
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions3
Simplicity in the Sciences and Humanities: Report on the Bonn “Simplicities and Complexities” Conference3
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge3
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method3
How to Justify the Symmetrization Postulate in Quantum Mechanics3
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate2
From Gauss to Riemann Through Jacobi: Interactions Between the Epistemologies of Geometry and Mechanics?2
Thematic Reclassifications and Emerging Sciences2
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap: An Epistemological Look2
Scientific Modeling Versus Engineering Modeling: Similarities and Dissimilarities2
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism2
Leibniz, Kant, and Referring in the Quantum Domain2
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium2
The Concept of the Universe in Physical Cosmology2
Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons2
On the Assessed Strength of Agents’ Bias2
Mario Bunge (1919–2020): Conjoining Philosophy of Science and Scientific Philosophy2
Population Thinking in Epistemic Evolution: Bridging Cultural Evolution and the Philosophy of Science2
On Chemical Natural Kinds2
Pluralizing Darwin: Making Counter-Factual History of Science Significant2
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity2
Appearance and Persistence as the Unity of Diachronic and Synchronic Concepts of Emergence2
Steven French: There Are No Such Things as Theories1
Colour, Wavelength and Turbidity in the Light of Goethe’s Colour Studies1
In Defence of Rationalist Accounts of the Continental Drift Debate: A Response to Pellegrini1
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology1
Karl Popper: Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft, vi+248 pp. Springer: Berlin 1935.1
Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real Causation1
Monist and Pluralist Approaches on Underdetermination: A Case Study in Evolutionary Microbiology1
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott1
Thinking Crossroads: from Scientific Pluralism to Pluralist History of Science1
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics1
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement1
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams1
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump1
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy1
Non-Tethered Understanding and Scientific Pluralism1
Why Computer Simulation Cannot Be an End of Thought Experimentation1
Physics and Beyond: Essay review of Kay Herrmann (Ed.): Grete Henry-Hermann: Philosophie–Mathematik–Quantenmechanik. Springer: Wiesbaden 2019, xv + 663 pp.1
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange1
Kostas Kampourakis and Tobias Uller (Eds.): Philosophy of Science for Biologists. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2020, 330 + x pp., £69.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084918391
Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory1
Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge1
N. R. Hanson and von Uexküll: A Biosemiotic and Evolutionary Account of Theories1
Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives1
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
Translation of Three Short Papers by Grete Hermann0
Editorial0
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development0
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue0
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology0
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman0
Isabelle F. Peschard and Bas C. van Fraassen (Eds.): The Experimental Side of Modeling0
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
Correction to: Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey‑Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives0
Books Received0
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
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency0
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
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
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Correction to: The Multicriterial Approach to the Problem of Demarcation0
Wojciech Sady: The Structure of the Relativity and Quantum Revolution in Physics (Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce)0
Alex Broadbent: Philosophy of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, 278 pp., £19.99, ISBN: 9780190612140
Introduction to the Special Issue0
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-40
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response0
Third Conference of the GWP (2019)0
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy0
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
Essay Review: Complexity Features, (Putative) Truisms, and the Ising Model0
Books Received0
Disagreement About Scientific Ontology0
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism0
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction0
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space0
The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann0
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief0
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science0
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
The Puzzle of Fictional Models0
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
Subatomic Particles, Epistemic Stances, and Kantian Antinomies0
Elise Crull, Guido Baccagaluppi (Eds.): Grete Hermann: Between Physics and Philosophy. (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science). Springer: Dordrecht 2016, 281 pp., 106,99€ (hardcover), ISBN 0
Comment on Schlick0
Introduction: Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-)Entanglement0
Models, Unification, and Simulations: Margaret C. Morrison (1954–2021)0
Vittorio Hösle: Kritik der verstehenden Vernunft: Eine Grundlegung der Geisteswissenschaften. C.H. Beck: München 2018, 503 pp., 38,00€ (hardcover), ISBN: 97834067258830
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction0
Regularities, Degrees of Necessity, and Dispositionalism0
Quantities as Metrical Coordinative Definitions and as Counts: On Some Definitional Structures in the New SI Brochure0
What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study0
Lara Huber: Relevanz: Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Meiner: Hamburg 2020, 189 pp., € 22.00, ISBN: 97837873379720
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic0
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)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
John Preston (Ed.): Interpreting Mach. Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 287 + xii pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084740160
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
Brigitte Falkenburg and Gregor Schiemann (Eds.): Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond (European Studies in Philosophy of Science)0
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: 0
Dispositional Realism, Conflicting Models and Contrastive Explanation0
On the Explanatory Power of Dispositional Realism0
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem0
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism0
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology0
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?0
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice0
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism0
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually0
Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past0
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
Grete Henry-Hermann (1901–1984)0
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
The Significance for Natural Philosophy of the Move from Classical to Modern Physics0
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
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
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 97830307234840
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
Steven French & Juha Saatsi (Eds.): Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2020, 336 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN: 97801988149790
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments0
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Forschung des Geistes von Tieren0
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories0
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