OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding from Machine Learning Models	59
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	49
Causal Concepts in Biology: How Pathways Differ from Mechanisms and Why It Matters	44
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	33
What Is an Object File?	33
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	30
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks	29
Being Realist about Bayes, and the Predictive Processing Theory of Mind	27
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity	25
Robustness and Idealizations in Agent-Based Models of Scientific Interaction	23
The Non-mechanistic Option: Defending Dynamical Explanations	21
Understanding Cultural Fidelity	20
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling	20
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection	20
It’s Not a Game: Accurate Representation with Toy Models	19
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation	19
The New Fiction View of Models	19
‘Of Water Drops and Atomic Nuclei: Analogies and Pursuit Worthiness in Science’	18
Philosophy in Science: Can philosophers of science permeate through science and produce scientific knowledge?	18
Why Surplus Structure Is Not Superfluous	16
Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics	15
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	15
The Costs of HARKing	15
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting	15
Mathematical Explanation beyond Explanatory Proof	15

Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	15
Structuralism in the Idiom of Determination	14
Three Kinds of Niche Construction	14
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	14
Interpreting Quantum Entanglement: Steps towards Coherentist Quantum Mechanics	14
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	14
The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account of Distinctively Mathematical Explanation	13
A generalized patchwork approach to scientific concepts	13
The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory	13
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	12
Mechanistic Causation and Constraints: Perspectival Parts and Powers, Non-perspectival Modal Patterns	12
Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments	12
Epistemic Irrationality in the Bayesian Brain	12
Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism	12
The Descent of Preferences	11
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	11
The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem	11
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	11
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz	11
Introspection Is Signal Detection	11
Mechanisms, Wide Functions, and Content: Towards a Computational Pluralism	10
Signalling under Uncertainty: Interpretative Alignment without a Common Prior	10
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation?	10
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science	10
Capricious Kinds	10
Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?	9
Explanatory Abstraction and the Goldilocks Problem: Interventionism Gets Things Just Right	9
Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism	9
Analogue Computation and Representation	9
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation	9
Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization	9
Representing the World with Inconsistent Mathematics	9
Using Logic to Evolve More Logic: Composing Logical Operators via Self-Assembly	8
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference	8
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet	8
Machian Comparativism about Mass	8
How to Be a Relativistic Spacetime State Realist	8
The Kalām Cosmological Argument Meets the Mentaculus	8
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Psychological Arrow of Time	8
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models	8
On Superdeterministic Rejections of Settings Independence	7
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	7
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	7
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	7
Cascade versus Mechanism: The Diversity of Causal Structure in Science	7
The Mass of the Gravitational Field	7
Research Problems	7
Counterfactuals in the Initial Value Formulation of General Relativity	7
Can Somebody Please Say What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says?	7

The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	7
Getting Serious about Shared Features	6
The Principal Principle Does Not Imply the Principle of Indifference, Because Conditioning on Biconditionals Is Counterintuitive	6
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	6
When a Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Replications in Making Better Theories	6
Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference	6
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	6
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom	6
The Demise of Brain Death	6
Explaining the Success of Induction	6
The Value of Biased Information	6
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?	6
Cancer and the Levels of Selection	6
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	6
On the mathematics and metaphysics of the hole argument	6
Arbitrary Signals and Cognitive Complexity	6