Journal for General Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for General Philosophy of Science is 0. 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
Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy29
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments23
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem19
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development17
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy15
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge13
Four Degrees of Temporal Becoming12
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump11
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy9
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science9
Brigitte Falkenburg: Kant’s Cosmology: From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason. Springer: Cham 2020, 284 + xvii pp., € 108,99, ISBN: 97830305228968
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually7
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman7
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space6
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement4
Species of Structure and Physical Dimensions4
Third Conference of the GWP (2019)3
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson3
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?3
Angela Potochnik: Science and the Public. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements in the Philosophy of Science), 2024, 84pp., €15.45 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090488283
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy3
Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects3
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology3
John Preston (Ed.): Interpreting Mach. Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 287 + xii pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084740163
Introduction to the Special Issue3
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems3
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology2
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories2
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice2
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue2
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing2
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief2
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*2
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)2
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-42
Books Received1
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions1
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response1
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science1
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium1
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science1
Donata Romizi: Dem wissenschaftlichen Determinismus auf der Spur: Von der klassischen Mechanik zur Entstehung der Quantenphysik. Karl Alber: Freiburg/München 2019, 504 pp., € 69.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 1
Ludger Pries: Verstehende Kooperation – Herausforderungen für Soziologie und Evolutionsforschung im Anthropozän. Campus: Frankfurt/New York 2021, 446 pp., €34,95, ISBN 978-3-593-51464-21
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds1
Editorial1
Scientific Unity in Street’s Darwinian Dilemma1
The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann1
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality1
Pure Shape Dynamics, Self-Subsisting Structures, and the Nature of Time1
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity1
The Concept of the Universe in Physical Cosmology1
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency1
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction1
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem1
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction1
Introduction: Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-)Entanglement0
Introduction0
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic0
What Does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like?0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
Conceptual Structuralism0
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion0
Correction to: Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey‑Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives0
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott0
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
Natural Selection: A Mechanism, A Pathway or A Little Bit of Both?0
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution0
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments0
Transaction Costs Economics and Good Scientific Practice0
The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach0
Kostas Kampourakis and Tobias Uller (Eds.): Philosophy of Science for Biologists. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2020, 330 + x pp., £69.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 97811084918390
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics0
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
Demystifying Downward Causation in Biology0
Demarcation that Makes the Layperson Smart0
Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Forschung des Geistes von Tieren0
Induction and the Principles of Love in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Nature0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism0
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie, Eleonora Montuschi, Matthew Soleiman, and Ann C. Thresher: The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press,0
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism0
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach0
Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives0
The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View0
The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology0
The Puzzle of Fictional Models0
Assessing Vickers’ Plea for Identifying Future-Proof Science0
Review of Lefèvre, Wolfgang (ed.). Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant. Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century (2nd edition)0
“Respectful Denunciation, Peaceful Incitement, and Productive Frustration”: the Wonderfully Subversive Project of Hasok Chang’s Realism for Realistic People0
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
On the Preeminence of Euclidean Geometry: Nash’s Embedding Theorems0
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 97830307234840
Infinite Practices, One Mathematics: Challenging Mathematical Pluralism0
Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory0
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges0
Reductionism, Supervenience, and Carnap’s Account of Empirical Confirmability0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons0
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
Questioning the Emergence of Time0
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances0
Thomas S. Kuhn: The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science. Edited by Bojana Mladenovic. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2022, xlix + 302 pp., €25,99 (Hardcover), ISB0
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism0
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
Quantities as Metrical Coordinative Definitions and as Counts: On Some Definitional Structures in the New SI Brochure0
How Do We Observe Relational Observables?0
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem0
Wojciech Sady: The Structure of the Relativity and Quantum Revolution in Physics (Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce)0
Subatomic Particles, Epistemic Stances, and Kantian Antinomies0
Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda0
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams0
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method0
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism0
Matthias Neuber, Adam Tamas Tuboly (Eds.): Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer: Cham, 2022, 310 + ix pp., 139,09€ (hardcover), ISBN: 97830308100920
Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 97801996066580
What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate0
James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 90pp., €21.23 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090091570
Lara Huber: Relevanz: Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Meiner: Hamburg 2020, 189 pp., € 22.00, ISBN: 97837873379720
The Change-Driver Account of Scientific Discovery: Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Discovery of the Expanding Universe0
The Time in Thermal Time0
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange0
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy0
The Physiologist Johannes Peter Müller and the Philosopher Spinoza: An Underestimated Relation0
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Steven French: There Are No Such Things as Theories0
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction0
Back to Reichenbach0
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology0
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