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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk119
The Demise of Brain Death50
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness40
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories32
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time28
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation27
In Defence of Dimensions26
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice25
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll24
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy21
Grasping in Understanding21
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games17
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction17
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information17
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws16
Rational Aversion to Information15
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study15
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time15
Host Specificity in Biological Control15
On Biologizing Racism14
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely14
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance13
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions13
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws13
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes12
Biochemical Functions12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes12
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations12
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?11
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts11
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem11
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?10
On the very idea of biological individuality9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry9
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale9
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'9
Jury Theorems for Peer Review9
The Costs of HARKing8
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy8
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations8
Front Matter8
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?8
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains8
The Evolution of Denial8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics8
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State7
A Bayesian Account of Establishing7
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument7
Actual Causation and Minimality7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations7
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions7
Front Matter7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis6
The mirage of big-data phrenology6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts5
Introspection Is Signal Detection5
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds5
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology5
Front Matter5
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics4
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes4
Front Matter4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo4
Understanding Structural Representations4
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks4
Closing the Hole Argument4
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
Machian Comparativism about Mass4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception4
Presentist Velocities4
Front Matter4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives4
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution4
Effective Ontic Structural Realism4
Front Matter3
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts3
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation3
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity3
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection3
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction3
Neural Oscillations as Representations3
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience3
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation3
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
Naturalizing Natural Salience3
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence3
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?3
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders3
Symmetries as Isomorphisms3
Front Matter3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties3
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA2
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology2
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles2
Sifting the Signal from the Noise2
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?2
Niches and Niche Models2
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists2
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?2
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry2
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance2
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection2
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits2
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference2
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem2
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
A Hybrid Theory of Induction2
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments2
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels2
On Explaining the Success of Induction2
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
Consequences of Calibration2
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?1
Are Maxwell Gravitation and Newton-Cartan Theory Theoretically Equivalent?1
Visual Streams as Core Mechanisms1
Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination1
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate1
Representation without Informative Signalling1
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence1
On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization and Other Belief Updating Strategies1
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology1
Finite Frequentism Explains Quantum Probability1
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function1
Exploitative Informing1
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness1
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist1
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox1
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship1
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science1
On the Incompleteness of Classical Mechanics1
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent1
Personomics: Precision Psychiatry Done Right1
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy1
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?1
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour1
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance1
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument1
Centered Chance in the Everett Interpretation1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities1
The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism1
Wavefunction Mereology1
A new low: Reassessing (and revising) the local recurrency theory of consciousness1
Why Confirm Laws?1
The local validity of special relativity from a scale-relative perspective1
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize1
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms1
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability1
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account1
The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine1
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine1
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization1
Front Matter1
The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-social-technological Co-evolutionary Account1
Experimental Artefacts1
Pain: Modularity and Cognitive Constitution1
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains1
Three Concepts of Actual Causation1
Causation and the conservation of energy in general relativity1
Against Self-Location1
Front Matter1
Realism after Theory T Thinking1
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking1
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal1
Why use generic language in science?1
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories1
Speed-Optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence1
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice1
Cancer and the Levels of Selection1
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science1
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory1
Fixing Stochastic Dominance1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions1
Anti-reductionist Interventionism1
Threading the Needle: Species Eliminativism Meets Biological Conservation1
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