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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now30
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller24
In Memoriam: Colin Howson22
Dejustifying Scientific Progress19
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction19
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal17
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change17
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:14
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution14
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving14
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs13
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach13
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models12
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter12
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations12
The Logit Model Measurement Problem12
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism11
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review10
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment10
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation10
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?9
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds9
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity9
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science8
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics8
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines8
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science8
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism8
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
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 7
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter7
Review of Charles H. Pence’sThe Causal Structure of Natural Selection- Charles H. Pence, The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. Elements in the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge U7
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science7
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust6
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation6
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis6
Models as Dogwhistles6
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare6
Structural Decision Theory6
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology6
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction6
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning6
Absolutely Zero Evidence5
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents5
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity5
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?5
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice5
Biomimetic Epistemology5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 20225
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles5
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
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS5
Accurate Updating5
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science4
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
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
Learning from the Shape of Data4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality4
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement4
Abduction and Composition4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation4
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
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations4
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework4
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation4
Approximate Coherentism and Luck4
Genericity and Inductive Inference4
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups4
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice3
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study3
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain3
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
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?3
Representing Non-actual Targets?3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb3
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations3
Context and Neural Function3
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?3
Determinism and General Relativity3
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited3
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study3
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
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms3
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences3
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
How American Is Pragmatism?2
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function2
Against Quantitative Primitivism2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case2
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation2
Sex Differences in Sexual Desire2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure2
Dutch Books and Logical Form2
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
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?2
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
Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice2
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account2
On Symmetries and Springs2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?2
PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience2
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience2
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure2
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern2
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 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
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding2
PSA volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?2
Explanatory Coherence and the Impossibility of Confirmation by Coherence2
Justifying Scientific Progress2
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry2
The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience2
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws1
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution1
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise1
Postscript to Richard Jeffrey’s “Conditioning, Kinematics, and Exchangeability”1
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model1
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter1
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality1
Review of Nina Emery’s Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science – ERRATUM1
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility1
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?1
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?1
Structural Humility1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation1
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?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
Minority Reports: Registering Dissent in Science1
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
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality1
Review of Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther’s Our Genes - Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 1
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement1
Preface1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction1
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models1
Theoretical Virtues, Truth, and the Epistemic Aim of Scientific Theorizing1
Philosophy of Science 89, no. 5 Cover and Front Matter – ERRATUM1
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Deception as Mimicry1
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking1
Variable Definition and Independent Components1
Tool Use Beyond Humans1
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
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)1
Multiple Routes to Progress in Model-Based Economics1
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 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
A Domino Theory of Disease1
Beyond finite additivity1
Towards a Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition1
PSA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity1
Symmetries as Humean Metalaws1
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions1
Classical American Pragmatism as Antiscientism1
The Substantial Role of Weyl Symmetry in Deriving General Relativity from String Theory1
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation1
Navigating in the Dark1
How Theory-Laden Are Observations of Black Holes?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
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory1
PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos1
Preface1
Referees for Philosophy of Science1
PSA volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence1
Trust of Science as a Public Collective Good1
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research1
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model1
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation1
An Exploration of Parameter Duality in Statistical Inference1
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis1
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation1
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice1
There Is Cause to Randomize1
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