Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophy of Science is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
In Memoriam: Colin Howson35
Dejustifying Scientific Progress24
On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice23
The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation22
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
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller11
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change11
Review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Intellectual Path - K. Brad Wray . Kuhn’s Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge11
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction11
Ecological Rationality Without Externalism11
Pragmatist Realism about Causation10
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter10
The Logit Model Measurement Problem10
Stability, Robustness Reasoning, and Measuring the Human Contribution to Warming10
Measured Inference: Scales, Statistics, and Scientific Inference10
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment10
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now10
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines10
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball10
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations9
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds9
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism9
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models9
The Open System View and the Metaphysics of Symmetries8
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation8
Review of Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard’s Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools - Ann Johnson and Johann8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science8
Credentialed Fictions and the Sex Binary8
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity8
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
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology7
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter7
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation7
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction7
The Squared Mass-Ratios Puzzle for Comparativism7
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science7
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement7
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
Models as Dogwhistles7
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science7
Causal Direction in Causal Bayes Nets7
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare6
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents6
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation6
Absolutely Zero Evidence6
Accurate Updating6
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS6
Biomimetic Epistemology5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles5
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter5
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?5
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 20225
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
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?5
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups4
Identification and Indetermination in the Meta-Inductive Approach to Induction4
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Data Can Be Underdetermined, Too4
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer4
Degrees of Value-Ladenness and Signal-to-Noise Ratio4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA4
Fitness, Mutational Load, and Eugenics4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework4
Are There Experimental Virtues?4
PSA volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations4
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
Ecology as a Science of Functional Roles4
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances4
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science4
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain3
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Context and Neural Function3
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
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation3
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
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM3
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
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science3
Unreasonable Doubt. How Strategic Science Skeptics Exploit the Argument from Disagreement3
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles3
The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
Genericity and Inductive Inference3
Review of Bryan W. Roberts’s Reversing the Arrow of Time3
Public Trust of Experts in Democratic Societies: Lessons from Follett and Dewey3
The Conventionality of Geometry Is Merely Incomplete3
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models3
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory2
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience2
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?2
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry2
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb2
What Do Privileged Coordinates Tell Us about Structure?2
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice2
Prospects for Analogue Confirmation2
Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships2
Origin Explanation2
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited2
Not the Measurement Problem’s Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger’s Cat2
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms2
Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy2
Tool Use Beyond Humans2
Why We Love Pictures (for the Wrong Reasons): A Lesson from the Picture of a Black Hole2
Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality2
Against Quantitative Primitivism2
Demarcating, defining, and diagnosing pseudoscience2
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
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution2
Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice2
The Emergent Basis of Expert Trust2
Justifying Scientific Progress2
Irreversible (One-hit) and Reversible (Sustaining) Causation2
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Biological Mistake Theory and the Question of Function2
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study2
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
Peirce in the Machine: How Mixture of Experts Models Perform Hypothesis Construction – ERRATUM2
The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry2
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 2
Nothing Matters2
PSA volume 92 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?2
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking2
On Symmetries and Springs2
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations2
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure2
What Do Large Language Models Know? Tacit Knowledge as a Potential Causal-Explanatory Structure2
A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments2
Mauricio Suárez , Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2024), 328 pp., $35.00.2
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning2
Hume’s Externalist Gambit2
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?2
PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations2
Goal Directedness and the Field Concept2
What Is Wrong with Rerandomization in Randomized Field Experiments?2
Conditional Probabilities and Symmetric Grounding2
Theoretical Virtue, Transient Diversity, and the Epistemic Success of Scientific Communities2
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