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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Demise of Brain Death105
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk72
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness58
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll51
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories38
Grasping in Understanding29
In Defence of Dimensions26
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice26
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy25
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time22
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation21
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws20
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI19
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism19
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information19
Host Specificity in Biological Control17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time17
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction17
Rational Aversion to Information16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games16
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely15
On Biologizing Racism14
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core13
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations13
Biochemical functions13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions13
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?12
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes12
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?11
Jury Theorems for Peer Review11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes11
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts11
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)11
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry10
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem10
The Costs of HARKing10
On the very idea of biological individuality10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space10
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour10
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy10
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?8
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing7
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity7
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State7
Actual Causation and Minimality7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations7
The Evolution of Denial7
Front Matter7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis6
Introspection Is Signal Detection6
The mirage of big-data phrenology6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge6
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws6
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
Closing the Hole Argument5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds5
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach5
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Presentist Velocities5
Front Matter5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks4
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception4
Understanding Structural Representations4
Machian Comparativism about Mass4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives4
Front Matter4
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes4
Front Matter4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)4
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
Neural Oscillations as Representations3
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation3
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution3
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan3
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence3
Symmetries as Isomorphisms3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions3
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation3
Effective Ontic Structural Realism3
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation3
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience3
Front Matter3
Front Matter3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts3
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo3
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders3
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?3
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference2
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism2
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments2
What Is an Object File?2
Naturalizing Natural Salience2
Sifting the Signal from the Noise2
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection2
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance2
A Hybrid Theory of Induction2
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence2
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
Niches and Niche Models2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels2
Front Matter2
On Explaining the Success of Induction2
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits2
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction2
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?2
Speed-Optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence2
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain2
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity2
Consequences of Calibration2
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem2
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA2
The New Fiction View of Models2
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles2
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry2
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology2
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories2
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice2
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy1
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science1
Against Self-Location1
Threading the Needle: Species Eliminativism Meets Biological Conservation1
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology1
How to Be Humean about Symmetries1
Are Maxwell Gravitation and Newton-Cartan Theory Theoretically Equivalent?1
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice1
Experimental Artefacts1
The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism1
Three Concepts of Actual Causation1
Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination1
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate1
Finite Frequentism Explains Quantum Probability1
Why Confirm Laws?1
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?1
The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-social-technological Co-evolutionary Account1
Exploitative Informing1
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms1
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance1
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking1
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist1
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory1
Reconciling Mechanism and Processualism: A Structuralist Twist in Processual Ontology1
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?1
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities1
Quantifying Proportionality and the Limits of Higher-Level Causation and Explanation1
Anti-reductionist Interventionism1
Front Matter1
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox1
A new low: Reassessing (and revising) the local recurrency theory of consciousness1
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal1
On the Incompleteness of Classical Mechanics1
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science1
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists1
Why use generic language in science?1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress1
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness1
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
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument1
Realism after Theory T Thinking1
The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability1
Essentially Ergodic Behaviour1
Cancer and the Levels of Selection1
Representation without Informative Signalling1
Wavefunction Mereology1
On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization and Other Belief Updating Strategies1
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?1
Explaining the Success of Induction1
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account1
Epistemological Pitfalls in the Proxy Theory of Race: The Case of Genomics-Based Medicine1
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function1
The local validity of special relativity from a scale-relative perspective1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions1
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?1
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains1
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize1
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