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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Perspectival Instruments	22
PSA volume 89 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	21
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	21
Referees for Philosophy of Science	18
Abduction and Composition	18
Random Foraging and Perceived Randomness	16
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation	13
Deception as Mimicry	12
Multiscale Modeling in Neuroethology: The Significance of the Mesoscale	12
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
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement	11
The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games	11
Growth From Uncertainty: Understanding the Replication ‘Crisis’ in Infant Cognition	11
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach	11
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	10
Book Review: “Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity” by James Read	10
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise	9
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 Account	9
Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law	9
PSA volume 88 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
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 Theory	8
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 Models	8

The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	8
Further Reflections Based on the Black–Scholes (B-S) Model	8
Locating Values in the Space of Possibilities	8
A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation	7
Different Meaning in Different Sizes: Ecology in Size Scales	7
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	7
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice	6
Accuracy-First Epistemology Without Additivity	6
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 Reality	6
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 Learning	6
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws	6
How American Is Pragmatism?	6
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	6
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	6
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	6
A Structural Justification of Probabilism: From Partition Invariance to Subjective Probability	5
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal	5
There Are No Mathematical Explanations	5
A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction	5
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	5
“Fundamental” “Constants” and Precision Tests of the Standard Model	5
Unlimited Associative Learning as a Null Hypothesis	5
The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution	5
PSA volume 89 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	4
Trading Evidence: The Role of Models in Interfield Unification	4
Is Lottery a Better Way of Resource Distribution Than Baseline Funding?	4
What Are Neural Representations? A Cummins Functions Approach	4
That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance	4
Classical American Pragmatism as Antiscientism	4
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving	4
Measuring the Nonexistent: Validity before Measurement	4
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science	4
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	4
Immunology and Population Health: Collaboration without Convergence	4
Method and Metaphysics: Essay review of Katherine Brading’s Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science	4
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?	4
Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms	4
Equivalence and Convention	3
Are Mathematical Explanations Causal Explanations in Disguise?	3
Determinism and General Relativity	3
That Obscure Concept of Desire: The Ideological War over Scientific Models	3
There Is Cause to Randomize	3
Strategic Constraints on Interacting Fields: Quantum Chemistry and Organic Chemistry	3
Can Meaningless Statements Be Approximately True? On Relaxing the Semantic Component of Scientific Realism	3
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	3
The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking	3

Crossing Levels: Meta-induction and the Problem of Induction	3
PSA volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	3
Approximate Coherentism and Luck	3
The Elastic Ruler: Placebo Responses, Clinical Trials, and Medical Knowledge	3
On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Noncausal Explanations	3
Measuring as a New Mode of Inquiry That Bridges Evolutionary Game Theory and Cancer Biology	3
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	3
Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory	3
Re-Assessing the Experiment / Observation-Divide	3
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”	3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
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 Adaptation	3
Confidence in Probabilistic Risk Assessment	3
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	3
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	2
What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?	2
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 Unive	2
On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	2
Preface	2
Reflexivity, Functional Reference, and Modularity: Alternative Targets for Language Origins	2
g as Bridge Model	2
Ethnography, Archaeology, and the Late Pleistocene	2
Roberto Gronda, *Dewey’s Philosophy of Science*. Synthese Library 421. Dordrecht: Springer (2020), 204 pp., €88.39 (cloth).	2
Explaining Machine Learning Decisions	2
Discovering Control Mechanisms: The Controllers of Dynein	2
PSA volume 91 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Academic Journals, Incentives, and the Quality of Peer Review: A Model	2
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 Diversity	2
The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-biases in Therapeutic Prediction	2
On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility	2
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?	2
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences	2
Severity and Trustworthy Evidence: Foundational Problems versus Misuses of Frequentist Testing	2
Causation and the Problem of Disagreement	2
Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science	2
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	2
Genericity and Inductive Inference	2
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	2
Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models	2
The Nature of a Constant of Nature: The Case of G	2
How to Think with the Global South	2
Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics	2
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics	2
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?	2
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	2
On Cognitive Modeling and Other Minds	2
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	2
The Limits of Democratizing Science: When Scientists Should Ignore the Public	2
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences	2
Health and Disease: Between Naturalism and Normativism	2
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	2
Implementation as Resemblance	2
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/Joh	2
How the structure of scientific communities could impact the public uptake of uncertain science	2
The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy	2
Philosophy of the Field, in the Field: Philosophy of Science Association 2020/2021 Presidential Address	2
Robustness of Climate Models	2
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs	2
Review of Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance	2
Connecting the Revolutionary with the Conventional: Rethinking the Differences between the Works of Brouwer, Heyting, and Weyl	2
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	2
Proof of Concept Research	2
Power Emergentism and the Collapse Problem	2
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	2