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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Demise of Brain Death109
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk72
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll58
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories51
In Defence of Dimensions39
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy30
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation26
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time26
Grasping in Understanding25
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness24
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice22
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws21
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information20
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI19
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism19
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction17
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study17
Rational Aversion to Information17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games16
Host Specificity in Biological Control16
On Biologizing Racism15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely15
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance14
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations14
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms14
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core13
Biochemical functions13
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes12
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?12
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)12
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes11
Jury Theorems for Peer Review11
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space11
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem11
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy11
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy10
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
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry10
On the very idea of biological individuality10
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale10
The Costs of HARKing9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour9
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?9
Front Matter9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics8
The Evolution of Denial8
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations8
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State7
Front Matter7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice7
Actual Causation and Minimality7
A Bayesian Account of Establishing7
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?7
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition6
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?6
Front Matter6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws6
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation6
The mirage of big-data phrenology6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge6
Introspection Is Signal Detection5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts5
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics5
Front Matter5
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes4
Presentist Velocities4
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health4
Front Matter4
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive4
Machian Comparativism about Mass4
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
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing4
Closing the Hole Argument4
Understanding Structural Representations4
Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality4
Measurements, Preparations, and Interpretations in Quantum Theory: A Comment on Meehan4
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?3
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts3
Objectivity and the Method of Arbitrary Functions3
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
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation3
A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts3
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry3
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection3
Front Matter3
Symmetries as Isomorphisms3
Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience3
Effective Ontic Structural Realism3
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation3
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity3
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence3
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition3
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties3
What Are the ‘Levels’ in Levels of Selection?3
Neural Oscillations as Representations3
Temporal nonlocality from indefinite causal orders3
Front Matter3
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry3
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction3
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics3
Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games2
Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs2
A Hybrid Theory of Induction2
Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong2
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem2
The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated2
Reassessing Quasi-experiments: Policy Evaluation, Induction, and SUTVA2
Sifting the Signal from the Noise2
The Counterpossibles of Science versus the Science of Counterpossibles2
Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection2
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus2
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist2
Accuracy and Verisimilitude: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2
Inference to the Best Contradiction?2
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation: Pre-QM Parallels2
Consequences of Calibration2
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference2
Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds2
The Value of Categorical Polythetic Diagnoses in Psychiatry2
What Is It for a Machine Learning Model to Have a Capability?2
Scientific Objectivity and Its Limits2
On Explaining the Success of Induction2
What Is an Object File?2
Niches and Niche Models2
Normativity, Epistemic Rationality, and Noisy Statistical Evidence2
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity2
Who’s afraid of nutritionism?2
Weber's Elephant: Rethinking Science Advice2
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science2
Why Trust a Simulation? Models, Parameters, and Robustness in Simulation-Infected Experiments2
Restricted Auditory Aspatialism2
Front Matter2
The New Fiction View of Models2
Naturalizing Natural Salience2
Cultural Evolution, Niche Construction and Ecological Inheritance2
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
Speed-Optimal Induction and Dynamic Coherence2
Time-Reversal Invariance and Ontology1
A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy1
Causation and the conservation of energy in general relativity1
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability1
A Puzzle Concerning Local Symmetries and Their Empirical Significance1
Representation without Informative Signalling1
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument1
Front Matter1
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities1
A new low: Reassessing (and revising) the local recurrency theory of consciousness1
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization1
On the Incompleteness of Classical Mechanics1
Why Confirm Laws?1
Exploitative Informing1
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain1
Two Senses of Experimental Robustness: Result Robustness and Procedure Robustness1
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate1
Cancer and the Levels of Selection1
Wavefunction Mereology1
The local validity of special relativity from a scale-relative perspective1
Threading the Needle: Species Eliminativism Meets Biological Conservation1
What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?1
Calibrating Chromatography: How Tswett Broke the Experimenters’ Regress1
Visual Streams as Core Mechanisms1
Experimental Artefacts1
Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?1
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science1
On the Ecological and Internal Rationality of Bayesian Conditionalization and Other Belief Updating Strategies1
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox1
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: the Case of Compelled Assent1
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal1
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking1
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science1
The Origins of Distinctively Human Mindreading: A Bio-social-technological Co-evolutionary Account1
The Emergence of Spacetime: What Role for Functionalism?1
Why Experimental Balance Is Still a Reason to Randomize1
Anti-reductionist Interventionism1
Personomics: Precision Psychiatry Done Right1
Realism after Theory T Thinking1
The Neo-Gouldian Argument for Evolutionary Contingency: Mass Extinctions1
Pain: Modularity and Cognitive Constitution1
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory1
Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains1
Centered Chance in the Everett Interpretation1
Are Maxwell Gravitation and Newton-Cartan Theory Theoretically Equivalent?1
The informational profile of valence: The metasemantic argument for imperativism1
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice1
Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination1
Which Models of Scientific Explanation Are (In)Compatible with Inference to the Best Explanation?1
Finite Frequentism Explains Quantum Probability1
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
Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms1
Three Concepts of Actual Causation1
Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists1
Against Self-Location1
Why use generic language in science?1
Front Matter1
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