Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming32
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now26
In Memoriam: Colin Howson25
Dejustifying Scientific Progress24
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach22
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference19
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution18
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:17
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction15
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving15
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal15
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller14
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice14
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change14
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter13
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science13
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity12
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism12
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball12
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics11
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review9
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment9
Review of Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard’s Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools - Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, Cultures of Prediction: How 9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism9
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines9
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations8
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds8
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?8
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries8
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models8
The Logit Model Measurement Problem8
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation8
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility8
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs8
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets8
Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science8
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter7
Review of Nancy Cartwright’s A Philosopher Looks at Science - Nancy Cartwright, A Philosopher Looks at Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 210 pp. $12.95 (paperback).7
Models as Dogwhistles7
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement7
Review of Charles H. Pence’s The Causal Structure of Natural Selection - Charles H. Pence, The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. Elements in the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge7
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare7
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust7
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter7
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning7
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation7
The squared mass-ratios puzzle for Comparativism7
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation6
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction6
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science6
Structural Decision Theory6
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis6
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence6
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?5
Biomimetic Epistemology5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice5
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter5
Are there experimental virtues?5
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework5
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles5
Absolutely Zero Evidence5
Accurate Updating5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 20225
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles5
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?5
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
Review of Dominik Hangleiter, Jacques Carolan, and Karim P. Y. Thébault’s Analogue Quantum Simulation: A New Instrument for Scientific Understanding - Dominik Hangleiter, Jacques Carolan, and 5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents5
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness5
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?5
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account5
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science5
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory4
Review of Emanuele Ratti and Thomas A. Stapleford’s Science, Technology, and Virtues: Contemporary Perspectives - Emanuele Ratti and Thomas A. Stapleford, eds., Science, Technology, and Virtue4
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation4
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni4
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations4
Review of Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny’s From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language - Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language. Cambridge: 4
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?4
Review of Jean Gayon and Victor Petit’s Knowledge of Life Today - Jean Gayon, Interviewed by Victor Petit. Knowledge of Life Today: Conversations on Biology. London & Hoboken, NJ: ISTE/Joh4
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Learning from the Shape of Data4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups4
Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models4
Abduction and Composition4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA4
Review of Ryan Nefdt’s Language, Science and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics - Ryan Nefdt, Language, Science and Structure: A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics.4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science4
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement4
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain4
Representing Non-actual Targets?3
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?3
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships3
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
Genericity and Inductive Inference3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry3
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb3
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning3
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study3
Context and Neural Function3
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning3
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?3
Review of Jonathan Birch’s The Edge of Sentience - Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press. 2024.3
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited3
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms3
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences3
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM3
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure3
Review of Jeffrey A. Barrett’s The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Jeffrey A. Barrett, The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), 273
Review of Boyd et al.’s Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There - “Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to De2
Review of Cameron J. Buckner’s From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence - Cameron J. Buckner, From Deep L2
Not the Measurement Problem’s Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger’s Cat2
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience2
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A Lesson from the Picture of a Black Hole2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science2
Nothing Matters2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?2
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality2
On Values in Fairness Optimization with Machine Learning2
Explanatory Coherence and the Impossibility of Confirmation by Coherence2
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy2
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality2
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Review of Matthew J. Brown’s Science and the Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science - Matthew J. Brown, Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science. With a f2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice2
Dutch Books and Logical Form2
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation2
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification2
Sex Differences in Sexual Desire2
On Symmetries and Springs2
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics2
Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence2
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory2
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model2
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution2
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account2
Review of Richard Pettigrew’s Choosing for Changing Selves - Richard Pettigrew, Choosing for Changing Selves. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), 272 pp., $72.00 (hardcover; also available 2
How American Is Pragmatism?2
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics2
Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience2
The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure2
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Justifying Scientific Progress2
Against Quantitative Primitivism2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit2
Quo Vadis Wheeler-DeWitt Time?2
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations2
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations2
PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept2
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Preface1
Philosophy of Science 89, no. 5 Cover and Front Matter – ERRATUM1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility1
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?1
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”1
Review of Caitlin Donahue Wylie’s Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes - Caitlin Donahue Wylie, Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2021), 264 1
Review of George E. Smith and Raghav Seth’s Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality: A Study in Theory-Mediated Measurement - George E. Smith, and Raghav Seth, Brownian Motion and Molecular Real1
Trust of Science as a Public Collective Good1
Review of Jeffrey McDonough’s A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Physics and Philosophy - Jeffrey McDonough, A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Ph1
Structural Humility1
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement1
The Substantial Role of Weyl Symmetry in Deriving General Relativity from String Theory1
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws1
Review of Andreas Hüttemann’s A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice - Andreas Hüttemann, A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice. Cambridge University Press (2021), viii+232 pp. 1
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales1
Postscript to Richard Jeffrey’s “Conditioning, Kinematics, and Exchangeability”1
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science1
Preface1
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?1
Why the Liberality Criterion Is Dysfunctional for Theories of Ecological Function1
Symmetries as Humean Metalaws1
Review of Nina Emery’s Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science – ERRATUM1
Navigating in the Dark1
Towards a Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science1
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation1
Direct and Circumstantial Traces1
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation1
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models1
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity1
There Is Cause to Randomize1
Can Scientific Communities Profit from Evaluative Diversity?1
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”1
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction1
Multiple Routes to Progress in Model-Based Economics1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Referees for Philosophy of Science1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics1
Parachute Science in Paleontology as Distributive Epistemic Injustice1
Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos1
A Domino Theory of Disease1
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation1
The singular case of spacetime singularities in quantum gravity1
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets1
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence1
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