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Papers

(The TQCC of Philosophy of Science is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	36
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	34
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice	33
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	23
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation	23
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:	22
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming	17
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference	15
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	11
Review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Intellectual Path - K. Brad Wray . Kuhn’s Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge	11
Ecological Rationality Without Externalism	11
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	10
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	10
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	10
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	10
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	10
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	10
Pragmatist Realism about Causation	10
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	10
Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary	9
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
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	9
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	9
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries	9
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment	9

Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	8
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	8
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets	8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science	8
The Logit Model Measurement Problem	8
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning	7
Accurate Updating	7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	7
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	7
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	7
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	7
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement	7
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: Cambridge	7
Models as Dogwhistles	7
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	7
The Squared Mass-Ratios Puzzle for Comparativism	7
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	7
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	7
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
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
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis	7
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	7
Absolutely Zero Evidence	6
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	6
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	6
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	6
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point	6
Biomimetic Epistemology	6
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
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles	5
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	5
PSA volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	5
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too	5
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?	5
Are There Experimental Virtues?	5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	5
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	4
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 Virtue	4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice	4

The Conventionality of Geometry Is Merely Incomplete	4
Genericity and Inductive Inference	4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	4
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
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction	4
Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics	4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio	4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	4
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning	4
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
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	4
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	4
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	4
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	4
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	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
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	3
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	3
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	3
Peirce in the Machine: How Mixture of Experts Models Perform Hypothesis Construction – ERRATUM	3
Representing Non-actual Targets?	3
Review of Bryan W. Roberts’s Reversing the Arrow of Time	3
Context and Neural Function	3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	3
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments	3
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	3
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships	3
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Unreasonable Doubt. How Strategic Science Skeptics Exploit the Argument from Disagreement	3
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb	3