British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk49
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation36
In Defence of Dimensions34
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories31
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll29
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice28
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time28
The Demise of Brain Death26
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness22
Grasping in Understanding19
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy19
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI18
Rational Aversion to Information18
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism18
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws18
Host Specificity in Biological Control17
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics16
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study15
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction15
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely14
On Biologizing Racism14
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations12
Biochemical Functions12
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem11
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions11
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes11
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?10
Laws of Nature and Their Supporting Casts10
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy10
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?10
Front Matter10
Front Matter10
Realism about Newtonian Gravity9
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry9
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations9
The Costs of HARKing9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour9
On the very idea of biological individuality9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?8
Actual Causation and Minimality8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions8
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation8
The Evolution of Denial8
Front Matter8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice8
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge8
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity7
The mirage of big-data phrenology7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity7
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition7
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?7
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice6
Presentist Velocities6
Introspection Is Signal Detection6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach6
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes6
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime6
Front Matter6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide6
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology6
Front Matter6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds5
Closing the Hole Argument5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception5
Understanding Structural Representations5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing5
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan4
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation4
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?4
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity4
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence4
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo4
Machian Comparativism about Mass4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation4
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders4
Front Matter4
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts4
Effective Ontic Structural Realism4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
Erratum4
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution4
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions4
Symmetries as Isomorphisms4
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
Smugglers of reference: Expressivist-inferentialism and the inevitability of model denotation3
Neural Oscillations as Representations3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Sifting the Signal from the Noise3
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference3
A Hybrid Theory of Induction3
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits3
Naturalizing Natural Salience3
De-idealizing De-idealization: Beyond Full Reversal3
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
The Limitations of the Notion of 'Observable' in Diffeomorphism-Invariant Models3
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience3
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry3
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology3
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry3
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?3
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties3
In Defence of Science: Two Ways to Rehabilitate Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction3
Front Matter3
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection3
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem3
On Explaining the Success of Induction3
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles3
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?2
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice2
Consequences of Calibration2
Niches and Niche Models2
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent2
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account2
Against Self-Location2
Realism after Theory T Thinking2
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms2
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?2
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance2
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence2
Speed-Optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence2
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2
Why Confirm Laws?2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science2
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal2
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox2
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology2
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories2
Wavefunction Mereology2
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments2
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
Cascade Versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function2
Natural Theories2
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate2
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship2
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