Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophy of Science is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Perspectival Instruments22
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter21
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter21
Referees for Philosophy of Science18
Abduction and Composition18
Random Foraging and Perceived Randomness16
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation13
Deception as Mimicry12
Multiscale Modeling in Neuroethology: The Significance of the Mesoscale12
Matthias Neuber and Adam Tamas Tuboly, eds., Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 348 pp. $159.99. Hardcover and softcover (2022).12
The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games11
Growth From Uncertainty: Understanding the Replication ‘Crisis’ in Infant Cognition11
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach11
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement11
Book Review: “Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity” by James Read10
Dejustifying Scientific Progress10
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise9
How Theory-laden are Observations of Black Holes?9
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account9
Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law9
PSA volume 88 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
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. 8
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory8
Elaine Landry, ed., Categories for the Working Philosopher. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), xiv+417 pp., $110.00 (cloth).8
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models8
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller8
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model8
Locating Values in the Space of Possibilities8
A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation7
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales7
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter7
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice6
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity6
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:6
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality6
Maria Kronfeldner, What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2018), 336 pp., $45.00 (cloth).6
Comparative Learning6
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws6
How American Is Pragmatism?6
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now6
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction6
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 Virtue6
There Are No Mathematical Explanations5
A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction5
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science5
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model5
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis5
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution5
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
A Structural Justification of Probabilism: From Partition Invariance to Subjective Probability5
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal5
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution4
Trading Evidence: The Role of Models in Interfield Unification4
Is Lottery a Better Way of Resource Distribution Than Baseline Funding?4
What Are Neural Representations? A Cummins Functions Approach4
That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance4
Classical American Pragmatism as Antiscientism4
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving4
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement4
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA4
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence4
Method and Metaphysics: Essay review of Katherine Brading’s Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science4
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?4
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms4
Determinism and General Relativity3
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models3
There Is Cause to Randomize3
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations3
Can Meaningless Statements Be Approximately True? On Relaxing the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism3
In Memoriam: Colin Howson3
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking3
Crossing Levels: Meta-induction and the Problem of Induction3
PSA volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter3
Approximate Coherentism and Luck3
The Elastic Ruler: Placebo Responses, Clinical Trials, and Medical Knowledge3
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.3
Measuring as a New Mode of Inquiry That Bridges Evolutionary Game Theory and Cancer Biology3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches3
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory3
Re-Assessing the Experiment / Observation-Divide3
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry3
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation3
Confidence in Probabilistic Risk Assessment3
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change3
Equivalence and Convention3
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?3
Genericity and Inductive Inference2
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball2
Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models2
The Nature of a Constant of Nature: The Case of G2
How to Think with the Global South2
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics2
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics2
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?2
On Cognitive Modeling and Other Minds2
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models2
The Limits of Democratizing Science: When Scientists Should Ignore the Public2
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences2
Health and Disease: Between Naturalism and Normativism2
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles2
Implementation as Resemblance2
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/Joh2
How the structure of scientific communities could impact the public uptake of uncertain science2
The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy2
Philosophy of the Field, in the Field: Philosophy of Science Association 2020/2021 Presidential Address2
Robustness of Climate Models2
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs2
Review of Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance2
Connecting the Revolutionary with the Conventional: Rethinking the Differences between the Works of Brouwer, Heyting, and Weyl2
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models2
Proof of Concept Research2
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain2
Power Emergentism and the Collapse Problem2
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?2
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
Review of Alyssa Ney’s The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics - Alyssa Ney, The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics. New York: Oxford Unive2
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism2
Preface2
Reflexivity, Functional Reference, and Modularity: Alternative Targets for Language Origins2
g as Bridge Model2
Ethnography, Archaeology, and the Late Pleistocene2
Roberto Gronda, Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Synthese Library 421. Dordrecht: Springer (2020), 204 pp., €88.39 (cloth).2
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions2
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein2
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Academic Journals, Incentives, and the Quality of Peer Review: A Model2
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: 2
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity2
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility2
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction2
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?2
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences2
Severity and Trustworthy Evidence: Foundational Problems versus Misuses of Frequentist Testing2
Causation and the Problem of Disagreement2
Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science2
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?2
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)1
Review of Adrian Currie’s Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences - Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. Cambridge, 1
Exploratory Analysis and the Expected Value of Experimentation1
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 U1
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility1
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism1
The Epistemic Projection Approach to Values in Science1
Austinian model evaluation1
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: Ho1
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Context and Neural Function1
The Epistemic Value of the Living Fossils Concept1
T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity1
Review of Nina Emery’s Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science - Nina Emery, Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing. 1
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis1
Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence1
Temporal Neutrality Implies Exponential Temporal Discounting1
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization1
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making1
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb1
The Conventionality of Real-Valued Quantities1
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice1
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty1
Participation and Objectivity1
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations1
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study1
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?1
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study1
Henderson on Meta-Induction and the Problem of Induction1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations1
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science1
PSA volume 90 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Transformative Experience, Awareness Growth, and the Limits of Rational Planning1
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines1
Replication Is for Meta-Analysis1
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Structuring Institutions for Responsible and Accountable Science1
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science1
Variable Definition and Independent Components1
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation1
A Causal-Role Account of Ecological Role Functions1
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation1
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?1
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science1
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation1
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis1
Review of Slobodan Perović’s From Data to Quanta – Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics - Slobodan Perovi ć, From Data to Quanta – Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics. Chicago, IL: The University of Chi1
How to Not Secure Public Trust in Science: Representative Values Versus Polarization and Marginalization1
Representing Non-actual Targets?1
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Is Data Science Transforming Biomedical Research? Evidence, Expertise, and Experiments in COVID-19 Science1
A Pricean Formalization of Gaia1
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust1
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare1
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement1
The attractions of “object colors”1
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review1
Review of Carol E. Cleland’s The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for Life as We Don’t Know It - Carol E. Cleland, The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for Life as1
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment1
Review of William Demopoulos’ On Theories: Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics - William Demopoulos, On Theories: Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics,1
Two Notions of Ecological Function1
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination1
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited1
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z1
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?1
Models as Dogwhistles1
The Logit Model Measurement Problem1
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).1
What can we learn about accuracy from machine learning?1
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds1
Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge1
Causal History, Statistical Relevance, and Explanatory Power1
Fair Infinite Lotteries, Qualitative Probability, and Regularity1
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism1
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?1
Organizations and Values in Science and Technology1
Vassend on Verisimilitude and Counterfactual Probabilities1
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Causal Agnosticism About Race: Variable Selection Problems in Causal Inference1
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis1
How Dissent on Gender Bias in Academia Affects Science and Society: Learning from the Case of Climate Change Denial1
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare1
Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments1
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction1
Understanding and Equivalent Reformulations1
On Symmetries and Springs0
Functions and Populations: Sharpening the Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function0
A Framework for Analyzing Broadly Engaged Philosophy of Science0
A Domino Theory of Disease0
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances0
Do Machine Learning Models Represent Their Targets?0
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice0
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account0
The Representational Role of Sophisticated Theories0
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science0
The Propositional Account of Effective Theories0
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Construct Validity in Automated Counterterrorism Analysis0
Information Deprivation and Democratic Engagement0
Against Quantitative Primitivism0
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