OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In Defence of Dimensions	98
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	68
The Demise of Brain Death	56
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	52
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	50
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	37
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	28
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	25
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	25
Grasping in Understanding	24
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	22
Host Specificity in Biological Control	21
Rational Aversion to Information	20
The comparison of inequality measurements across countries and time	19
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	17
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	17
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts	17
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	16
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	16
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	16
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	15
On Biologizing Racism	14
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13

Biochemical functions	13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	12
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	12
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	12
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	12
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	11
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	11
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	10
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	10
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	10
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	10
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	9
The Costs of HARKing	9
On the very idea of biological individuality	9
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	9
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations	8
Actual Causation and Minimality	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	8
The Evolution of Denial	8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	8
Front Matter	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	7
The mirage of big-data phrenology	7
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	7
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
Front Matter	6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	6

Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	6
Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5
Front Matter	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Front Matter	5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality	4
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	4
Understanding Structural Representations	4
Closing the Hole Argument	4
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints	4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)	4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation	4
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	4
Machian Comparativism about Mass	4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	4