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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk51
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation35
In Defence of Dimensions32
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll30
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time26
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy20
Grasping in Understanding20
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice19
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness19
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games19
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws18
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism18
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI18
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics16
Host Specificity in Biological Control16
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely14
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction14
Rational Aversion to Information14
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms13
On Biologizing Racism13
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws12
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations12
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance12
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science12
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem11
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes11
Biochemical Functions11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations11
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core11
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?10
Front Matter10
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space10
Laws of Nature and Their Supporting Casts10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review10
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy10
Front Matter10
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains10
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'10
The Evolution of Denial9
On the very idea of biological individuality9
Realism about Newtonian Gravity9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry9
Front Matter8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?8
Actual Causation and Minimality8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing8
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument8
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge7
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis7
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations7
Front Matter6
The mirage of big-data phrenology6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism6
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime6
Geometric Pooling: A User’s Guide6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach6
Introspection Is Signal Detection6
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing5
Closing the Hole Argument5
Presentist Velocities5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
Front Matter5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception5
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation4
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?4
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity4
Smugglers of reference: Expressivist-inferentialism and the inevitability of model denotation4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan4
Understanding Structural Representations4
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds4
Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-Coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution4
Front Matter4
Neural Oscillations as Representations4
Erratum4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Effective Ontic Structural Realism4
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions4
Symmetries as Isomorphisms4
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders4
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
Front Matter3
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts3
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference3
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice3
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments3
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels3
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?3
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience3
The Limitations of the Notion of 'Observable' in Diffeomorphism-Invariant Models3
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles3
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem3
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance3
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology3
Naturalizing Natural Salience3
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry3
De-idealizing De-idealization: Beyond Full Reversal3
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties3
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence3
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits3
Niches and Niche Models3
Sifting the Signal from the Noise3
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection3
A Hybrid Theory of Induction3
On Explaining the Success of Induction3
In Defence of Science: Two Ways to Rehabilitate Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction3
Consequences of Calibration2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?2
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account2
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate2
Wavefunction Mereology2
Scientific Contributions and Scientific Authorship2
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist2
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox2
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism2
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?2
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science2
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal2
Natural Theories2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories2
Why Confirm Laws?2
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms2
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists2
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
Cascade Versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Front Matter2
Realism after Theory T Thinking2
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function2
Against Self-Location2
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent2
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology2
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?2
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize2
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