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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy29
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments23
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem18
Non-Tethered Understanding and Scientific Pluralism15
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development13
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy13
Four Degrees of Temporal Becoming12
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump10
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy9
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge8
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: 97830305228968
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science8
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman7
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually7
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space6
Species of Structure and Physical Dimensions4
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement4
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?3
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems3
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy3
Angela Potochnik: Science and the Public. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements in the Philosophy of Science), 2024, 84pp., €15.45 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090488283
John Preston (Ed.): Interpreting Mach. Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 287 + xii pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084740163
Introduction to the Special Issue3
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology3
Third Conference of the GWP (2019)3
Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects3
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice2
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories2
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology2
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)2
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*2
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson2
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing2
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue2
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-42
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response1
Pure Shape Dynamics, Self-Subsisting Structures, and the Nature of Time1
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief1
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction1
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium1
Editorial1
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions1
Books Received1
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity1
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction1
Scientific Unity in Street’s Darwinian Dilemma1
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science1
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds1
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
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: 1
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency1
The Concept of the Universe in Physical Cosmology1
Conceptual Structuralism0
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments0
Back to Reichenbach0
Correction to: Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey‑Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives0
James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 90pp., €21.23 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090091570
The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
Review of Lefèvre, Wolfgang (ed.). Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant. Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century (2nd edition)0
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams0
Demystifying Downward Causation in Biology0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
“Respectful Denunciation, Peaceful Incitement, and Productive Frustration”: the Wonderfully Subversive Project of Hasok Chang’s Realism for Realistic People0
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
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Introduction0
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together0
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
Demarcation that Makes the Layperson Smart0
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
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
The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology0
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
Wojciech Sady: The Structure of the Relativity and Quantum Revolution in Physics (Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce)0
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
Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 97801996066580
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism0
Steven French: There Are No Such Things as Theories0
Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives0
What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study0
The Puzzle of Fictional Models0
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate0
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism0
Natural Selection: A Mechanism, A Pathway or A Little Bit of Both?0
The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach0
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
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
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges0
Questioning the Emergence of Time0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology0
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange0
The Time in Thermal Time0
The Change-Driver Account of Scientific Discovery: Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Discovery of the Expanding Universe0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons0
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion0
The Physiologist Johannes Peter Müller and the Philosopher Spinoza: An Underestimated Relation0
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction0
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism0
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott0
Quantities as Metrical Coordinative Definitions and as Counts: On Some Definitional Structures in the New SI Brochure0
How Do We Observe Relational Observables?0
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach0
Subatomic Particles, Epistemic Stances, and Kantian Antinomies0
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution0
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method0
Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory0
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science0
On the Preeminence of Euclidean Geometry: Nash’s Embedding Theorems0
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality0
Lara Huber: Relevanz: Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Meiner: Hamburg 2020, 189 pp., € 22.00, ISBN: 97837873379720
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
Assessing Vickers’ Plea for Identifying Future-Proof Science0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
Transaction Costs Economics and Good Scientific Practice0
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem0
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics0
Induction and the Principles of Love in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Nature0
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy0
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances0
Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Forschung des Geistes von Tieren0
The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View0
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction0
Infinite Practices, One Mathematics: Challenging Mathematical Pluralism0
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 97830307234840
Introduction: Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-)Entanglement0
Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past0
Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda0
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic0
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism0
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology0
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