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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller31
In Memoriam: Colin Howson24
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving23
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction20
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal20
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change19
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution17
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:15
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach14
Dejustifying Scientific Progress14
The Logit Model Measurement Problem13
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now13
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs13
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming13
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models12
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations12
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets11
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter10
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment10
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism10
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review9
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
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation9
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism8
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science8
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity8
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics8
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds8
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science8
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines8
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science7
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility7
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
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis7
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement7
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back 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
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust6
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology6
Structural Decision Theory6
Models as Dogwhistles6
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation6
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence6
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare6
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation6
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 20225
Accurate Updating5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice5
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists5
Absolutely Zero Evidence5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS5
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness5
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles5
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?5
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity5
Biomimetic Epistemology5
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point5
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
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality5
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science4
Approximate Coherentism and Luck4
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
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
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science4
Learning from the Shape of Data4
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?4
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?4
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences4
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
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni4
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement4
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
Abduction and Composition4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory4
Are there experimental virtues?4
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation4
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb3
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?3
Review of Jonathan Birch’s The Edge of Sentience3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences3
Context and Neural Function3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited3
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships3
Representing Non-actual Targets?3
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
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: 3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
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
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study3
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM3
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?3
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice3
Genericity and Inductive Inference3
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models3
Determinism and General Relativity3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty3
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms3
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept2
Justifying Scientific Progress2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?2
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice2
Sex Differences in Sexual Desire2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience2
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
On Symmetries and Springs2
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
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function2
Against Quantitative Primitivism2
The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?2
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
Nothing Matters2
Explanatory Coherence and the Impossibility of Confirmation by Coherence2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”2
PSA volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case2
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality2
How American Is Pragmatism?2
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience2
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
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure2
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
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments2
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics2
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A lesson from the picture of a black hole2
PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry2
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy2
Dutch Books and Logical Form2
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution2
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry2
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding2
Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice2
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation2
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”1
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?1
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?1
Multiple Routes to Progress in Model-Based Economics1
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation1
An Exploration of Parameter Duality in Statistical Inference1
A Domino Theory of Disease1
Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos1
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality1
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation1
Trust of Science as a Public Collective Good1
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice1
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
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory1
There Is Cause to Randomize1
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations1
How Theory-Laden Are Observations of Black Holes?1
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science1
Minority Reports: Registering Dissent in Science1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics1
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Review of Stavros Ioannidis and Stathis Psillos’s Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? - Stavros Ioannidis and Stathis Psillos , Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? Cambrid1
Preface1
Navigating in the Dark1
What really lives in the swamp? Thought experiments and the illustration of scientific reasoning1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?1
Postscript to Richard Jeffrey’s “Conditioning, Kinematics, and Exchangeability”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 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
Symmetries as Humean Metalaws1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity1
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model1
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models1
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality1
Deception as Mimicry1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility1
Preface1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation1
Referees for Philosophy of Science1
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence1
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation1
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition1
Towards a Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science1
Structural Humility1
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions1
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
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research1
Classical American Pragmatism as Antiscientism1
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking1
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws1
Tool Use Beyond Humans1
Review of Nina Emery’s Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science – ERRATUM1
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?1
Philosophy of Science 89, no. 5 Cover and Front Matter – ERRATUM1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)1
The Substantial Role of Weyl Symmetry in Deriving General Relativity from String Theory1
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