British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	62
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	49
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	46
What Is an Object File?	34
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	33
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	32
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	30
Being Realist about Bayes, and the Predictive Processing Theory of Mind	27
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity	25
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	23
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	22
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations	21
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	20
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	20
The New Fiction View of Models	19
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	19
It’s Not a Game: Accurate Representation with Toy Models	19
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?	19
‘Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science’	18
Why Surplus Structure Is Not Superfluous	17
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	16
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15
Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics	15
The Costs of HARKing	15
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	15

Mathematical Explanation beyond Explanatory Proof	15
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	14
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	14
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	14
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	14
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	14
Structuralism in the Idiom of Determination	14
The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory	13
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	13
A generalized patchwork approach to scientific concepts	13
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	13
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
Analogue Computation and Representation	12
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	12
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
The Descent of Preferences	11
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	11
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	11
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	11
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	10
Capricious Kinds	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation?	10
Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization	10
Explanatory Abstraction and the Goldilocks Problem: Interventionism Gets Things Just Right	10
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	10
Signalling under Uncertainty: Interpretative Alignment without a Common Prior	10
Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism	9
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	9
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	9
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	9
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference	8
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	8
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	8
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
How to Be a Relativistic Spacetime State Realist	8
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus	8
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time	8
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	8
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly	8
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	7
Cancer and the Levels of Selection	7
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	7
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	7

Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7
Research Problems	7
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	7
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	6
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	6
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	6
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	6
‘Models of’ and ‘Models for’: On the Relation between Mechanistic Models and Experimental Strategies in Molecular Biology	6
Explaining the Success of Induction	6
The Value of Biased Information	6
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference, Because Conditioning on Biconditionals Is Counterintuitive	6
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	6
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	6
Getting Serious about Shared Features	6
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics	5
Epistemic Holes and Determinism in Classical General Relativity	5
Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins	5
The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal	5
The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition	5
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	5
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	5
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains	5
Evidential Probabilities and Credences	5
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	5
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution	5
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway?	5
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?	5
Against Computational Perspectivalism	4
Saving the Data	4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)	4
Peer Review May Not Be Such a Bad Idea: Response to Heesen and Bright	4
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	4
Delusional Predictions and Explanations	4
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience	4
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	4
Well-Being Coherentism	4
Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating Spacetimes and the Relativistic Null Hypothesis	4
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?	4
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms	4
Bottled Understanding: The Role of Lab Work in Ecology	4
The Complementarity of Psychometrics and the Representational Theory of Measurement	4
Scientific Objectivity and its Limits	4
Should Explanations Omit the Details?	4
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	3
Malament–Hogarth Machines	3
Coherence, Explanation, and Hypothesis Selection	3
What's the Point of Authors?	3
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics	3
Putting theory in its place: The relationship between universality arguments and empirical constraints	3
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?	3
Seeing Goal-Directedness: A Case for Social Perception	3
The Typical Principle	3
Blind Cooperation: The Evolution of Redundancy via Ignorance	3
Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation	3
Un-debunking Ordinary Objects with the Help of Predictive Processing	3
Closing the hole argument	3
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	3
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function	3
Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling	3
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour	3
Agent-Based Models of Dual-Use Research Restrictions	3
Generalism and the Metaphysics of Ontic Structural Realism	3
Shakin' All Over: Proving Landauer's principle without neglect of fluctuations	2
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	2
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking	2
Betting on Future Physics	2
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms	2
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	2
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	2
Neural Oscillations as Representations	2
Time reversal invariance and ontology	2
Law-Abiding Causal Decision Theory	2
The idea of mismatch in evolutionary medicine	2
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance	2
Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content	2
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	2

Putting History Back into Mechanisms	2
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	2
On Absolute Units	2
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory	2
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness	2
Anti-reductionist Interventionism	2
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	2
Bivalent Selection and Graded Darwinian Individuality	2
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	2
On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What’s the Point of Understanding and Explaining?	2
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA	2
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy	2
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	2
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction	2
Experimental Artefacts	2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize	2
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics	2
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions	2
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	2
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms	2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds	2
The Sense of Time	2
How to distinguish between indistinguishable particles	2
Explanatory Distance	2
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	2
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	2