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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now	30
The Reference Class Problem and Probabilities in the Individual Case: A Response to Fuller	24
In Memoriam: Colin Howson	22
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction	19
Dejustifying Scientific Progress	19
Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change	17
Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal	17
Deep Uncertainty and Incommensurability: General Cautions about Precaution	14
The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving	14
Review of Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy’s Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects - Michela Massimi and Casey D. McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism:	14
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach	13
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs	13
The Logit Model Measurement Problem	12
How Narratives Can Deidealize Models	12
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	12
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations	12
Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism	11
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation	10
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review	10
Modeling Scaffolded Development into the Adjacent Possible Environment	10
Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity	9
On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?	9
The Mitonuclear Compatibility Species Concept, Intrinsic Essentialism, and Natural Kinds	9
A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball	8
How the Structure of Scientific Communities Could Affect the Public Uptake of Uncertain Science	8

On the Best Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism	8
Pandemic science and commercial values: An institutional account of values in science	8
Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics	8
Social Dynamics and the Evolution of Disciplines	8
Escape from Zanzibar: The Epistemic Value of Precision in Measurement	7
The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility	7
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
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 U	7
Evidential Variety and Mixed-Methods Research in Social Science	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
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	7
A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare	6
Structural Decision Theory	6
Observations, Experiments, and Arguments for Epistemic Superiority in Scientific Methodology	6
Dispositionalism and Dysfunction	6
The Limits of Value Transparency in Machine Learning	6
Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust	6
On Epistemically Useful Physical Computation	6
Robustness and Dark-Matter Observation	6
What FiveThirtyEight Can Teach Us about Solving the Replication Crisis	6
Models as Dogwhistles	6
Biomimetic Epistemology	5
The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022	5
Naturalness and the Forward-Looking Justification of Scientific Principles	5
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
Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in Science	5
Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness	5
Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS	5
Accurate Updating	5
Viewing Quantum Charge from the Classical Vantage Point	5
Absolutely Zero Evidence	5
Are Points (Necessarily) Unextended?	5
PSA volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists	5
On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-Avoidant Agents	5
The neutral theory of conceptual complexity	5
Setting the Demons Loose: Computational Irreducibility Does Not Guarantee Unpredictability or Emergence	5
An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?	5
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances	5
Phylogenetic Economics: Animal Models and the Study of Choice	5
Learning from the Shape of Data	4
Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models	4
A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation	4
Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Functions to Cancer	4
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches	4
Bamboozled by Bonferroni	4
Who’s Afraid of the Base-Rate Fallacy?	4
The Collective Responsibilities of Science: Toward a Normative Framework	4
Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation	4

Approximate Coherentism and Luck	4
Genericity and Inductive Inference	4
A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences	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
Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA	4
The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic Relations	4
PSA volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
PSA volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Trusting Traumatic Memory: Considerations from Memory Science	4
Is Thermodynamics Subjective?	4
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	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
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Λ and the Limits of Effective Field Theory	4
Inconsistent Belief Aggregation in Diverse and Polarised Groups	4
Participatory Modeling in Sustainability Science: The Road to Value-Neutrality	4
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account	4
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Infrared Cancellation and Measurement	4
Abduction and Composition	4
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty	3
Gauge Theory Without Principal Fiber Bundles	3
Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain	3
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
Trouble with Hubble: Status of the Big Bang Models	3
PSA volume 89 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?	3
Representing Non-actual Targets?	3
The Psychologist’s Green Thumb	3
The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations	3
Context and Neural Function	3
Does Neuroplasticity Support the Hypothesis of Multiple Realizability?	3
Determinism and General Relativity	3
A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z	3
Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited	3
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case Study	3
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), 27	3
Episodic Memory and Unrestricted Learning	3
The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms	3
Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice	3
Concerns about Contextual Values in Science and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Distinction	3
Why Average When You Can Stack? Better Methods for Generating Accurate Group Credences	3
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?	3
PSA volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Actualism and Uniformitarianism: From Abstract Commitments to Forms of Practice	3
Diversity, Trust, and Conformity: A Simulation Study	3
Where Does General Relativity Break Down?	3
A New Condition for Agglomeration in Bayesian Confirmation – ERRATUM	3