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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation27
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now24
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach19
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving18
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller17
In Memoriam: Colin Howson17
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal17
Dejustifying Scientific Progress13
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change13
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction13
Roberto Gronda, Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Synthese Library 421. Dordrecht: Springer (2020), 204 pp., €88.39 (cloth).12
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:12
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution12
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter11
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs11
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models11
The Logit Model Measurement Problem11
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism10
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review9
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds9
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment9
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation9
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: Ho8
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity8
How the structure of scientific communities could impact the public uptake of uncertain science8
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball8
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?8
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines7
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations7
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science7
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics7
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science7
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility6
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter6
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning6
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter6
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).6
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement6
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation6
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 U6
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis6
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust6
Models as Dogwhistles5
Structural Decision Theory5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 20225
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS5
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction5
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence5
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism5
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point5
Biomimetic Epistemology5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists5
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents5
Accurate Updating5
Absolutely Zero Evidence5
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness4
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity4
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles4
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?4
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework4
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice4
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 4
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer4
Learning from the Shape of Data4
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances4
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?4
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?4
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality4
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
Bamboozled by Bonferroni4
Abduction and Composition3
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?3
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences3
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles3
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
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models3
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA3
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science3
Context and Neural Function3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty3
Determinism and General Relativity3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches3
Genericity and Inductive Inference3
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement3
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain3
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation3
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?3
Approximate Coherentism and Luck3
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations3
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice3
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/Joh3
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
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models3
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry2
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation2
Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit2
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation2
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), 272
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms2
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
Representing Non-actual Targets?2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice2
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study2
Microaggressions and Objectivity: Experimental Measures and Lived Experience2
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations2
Dutch Books and Logical Form2
The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure2
Justifying Scientific Progress2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments2
Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics2
Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us About Structure?2
Sex Differences in Sexual Desire2
PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?2
Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics2
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?2
Answers at Gunpoint: On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case2
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding2
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z2
Against Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Quality2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept2
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
Tracking Confirmation2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy2
What Counts as a Memory? Definitions, Hypotheses, and “Kinding in Progress”2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience2
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
PSA volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?2
Explanatory Coherence and the Impossibility of Confirmation by Coherence2
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning2
The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern2
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb2
Against Quantitative Primitivism2
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited2
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
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study2
On Symmetries and Springs2
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM2
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function2
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice2
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory1
Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality1
Against Defending Science: Asking Better Questions About Indigenous Knowledge and Science1
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations1
Minority Reports: Registering Dissent in Science1
Preface1
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science1
Navigating in the Dark1
Adaptationism and Trait Individuation1
Varieties of Data-Centric Science: Regional Climate Modeling and Model Organism Research1
GR as a classical spin-2 theory?1
Philosophy of Science 89, no. 5 Cover and Front Matter – ERRATUM1
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets1
Resolving the Reference Class Problem At Scale1
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
How to Measure Effect Sizes for Rational Decision Making1
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?1
Structural Humility1
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model1
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).1
A Domino Theory of Disease1
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis1
The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account1
Static-Dynamic Hybridity in Dynamical Models of Cognition1
There Is Cause to Randomize1
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?1
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity1
Toward a new phase of Du Châtelet scholarship: From Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)1
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model1
On Relativistic Thermodynamics1
Energy Requirements Undermine Substrate Independence and Mind-Body Functionalism1
Tool Use Beyond Humans1
An Exploration of Parameter Duality in Statistical Inference1
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front 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
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions1
Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments: Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation1
Referees for Philosophy of Science1
Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?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
Triangulation, incommensurability, and conditionalization1
Towards A Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science1
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility1
Preface1
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics1
Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare1
Psychiatry’s New Validity Crisis: The Problem of Disparate Validation1
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
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice1
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
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement1
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry1
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence1
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution1
Trust of Science as a Public Collective Good1
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction1
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking1
Beyond finite additivity1
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”1
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality1
Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?1
On the Limits of Cultural Relativism as a Debiasing Method1
What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?1
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
The Substantial Role of Weyl Symmetry in Deriving General Relativity from String Theory1
Merely Means Paternalist? Prospect Theory and “Debiased” Welfare Analysis1
Postscript to Richard Jeffrey’s “Conditioning, Kinematics, and Exchangeability”1
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism1
Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos1
Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence1
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
PSA volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Beyond Hempel: Reframing the Debate about Scientific Explanation1
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation1
How Theory-laden are Observations of Black Holes?1
How American Is Pragmatism?1
Reply to Sprenger’s “A Novel Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence”1
Classical American Pragmatism as Antiscientism1
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Symmetries as Humean Metalaws1
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