British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk139
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy42
Grasping in Understanding33
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness29
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories28
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time26
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation25
In Defence of Dimensions23
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll22
The Demise of Brain Death20
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice18
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction16
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games16
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information15
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI15
Host Specificity in Biological Control15
Rational Aversion to Information15
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study14
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time14
On Biologizing Racism13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core13
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations12
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions12
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws12
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science12
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance12
Biochemical Functions11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes10
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts10
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review9
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy9
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)9
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?9
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes9
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour8
On the very idea of biological individuality8
Actual Causation and Minimality8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions8
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'8
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry8
The Costs of HARKing8
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains8
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale8
Front Matter8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing8
Front Matter8
The Evolution of Denial7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice7
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument7
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation7
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations7
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics7
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism6
The mirage of big-data phrenology6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models6
Front Matter6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide6
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism5
Presentist Velocities5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes5
Closing the Hole Argument5
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime5
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception5
Front Matter5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
Introspection Is Signal Detection5
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution4
Machian Comparativism about Mass4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives4
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation4
Symmetries as Isomorphisms4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan4
Effective Ontic Structural Realism4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation4
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience4
Understanding Structural Representations4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)4
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo4
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?4
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders4
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection3
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference3
Sifting the Signal from the Noise3
Naturalizing Natural Salience3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties3
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity3
Neural Oscillations as Representations3
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction3
A Hybrid Theory of Induction3
On Explaining the Success of Induction3
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits3
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
Front Matter3
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence3
Front Matter3
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts3
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry3
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels3
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology3
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles3
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?2
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection2
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry2
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories2
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence2
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists2
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist2
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance2
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem2
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize2
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms2
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?2
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?2
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice2
Consequences of Calibration2
Niches and Niche Models2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA2
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness2
Speed-Optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence2
Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination1
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship1
On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization and Other Belief Updating Strategies1
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science1
Finite Frequentism Explains Quantum Probability1
Exploitative Informing1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability1
Reconciling Mechanism and Processualism: A Structuralist Twist in Processual Ontology1
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory1
The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-social-technological Co-evolutionary Account1
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice1
Personomics: Precision Psychiatry Done Right1
Pain: Modularity and Cognitive Constitution1
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science1
Causation and the conservation of energy in general relativity1
Experimental Artefacts1
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance1
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent1
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy1
Against Self-Location1
Realism after Theory T Thinking1
A new low: Reassessing (and revising) the local recurrency theory of consciousness1
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology1
Front Matter1
Why use generic language in science?1
Why Confirm Laws?1
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?1
How to Be Humean about Symmetries1
Are Maxwell Gravitation and Newton-Cartan Theory Theoretically Equivalent?1
The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine1
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking1
Threading the Needle: Species Eliminativism Meets Biological Conservation1
Visual Streams as Core Mechanisms1
The local validity of special relativity from a scale-relative perspective1
Representation without Informative Signalling1
Anti-reductionist Interventionism1
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?1
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress1
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox1
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains1
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account1
On the Incompleteness of Classical Mechanics1
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal1
The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism1
Cancer and the Levels of Selection1
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine1
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument1
How Do We Know if Animals Remember? Proximal Functions and the Distribution of Episodic Memory.1
Three Concepts of Actual Causation1
Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation1
Front Matter1
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour1
Centered Chance in the Everett Interpretation1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities1
Front Matter1
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions1
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate1
Wavefunction Mereology1
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