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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy41
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments36
Epistemic Pluralism & Astrobiology16
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development11
Is Automated Discovery Expanding Human Understanding? On the Role of Machine Learning in the Increase of Scientific Understanding10
Discussion Note on Hasok Chang: Realism for Realistic People6
Discussion Note: Hasok Chang and the Concept of Reality5
Nancy J. Nersessian: Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022, 392pp., €62.46 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-0-262-54466-54
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge4
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump4
On Perspicuous Representation in Physics4
Four Degrees of Temporal Becoming4
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy3
Evidential Pluralism, Causal Pluralism, and an Integrative Theory of Causation3
The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference: A Précis3
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: 97830305228963
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually3
Species of Structure and Physical Dimensions2
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology2
No-Miracles Argument of Law: Jurisprudence Meets Structural Realism2
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?2
Back to the Building: On Mantzavinos’ The Constitution of Science2
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman2
Non-epistemic Values and the Automation of Science2
Angela Potochnik: Science and the Public. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements in the Philosophy of Science), 2024, 84pp., €15.45 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090488282
Michel Ghins: Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature: A Metaphysics of Causal Powers. Cham: Springer (Synthese Library, Volume 483), 2024, 224pp., €128.39 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-031-54226-82
The Fuzzy Logic of the Chemical Bond2
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement2
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space2
Introduction to the Special Issue "On Time in Foundations of Physics"2
Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects2
An Argument Against Müller’s Criticism of Newton2
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology1
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue1
Introduction to the Special Issue1
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*1
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)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
A Philosophical Analysis of Non-Markovian Collapse Models1
Circularity and Ampliation: A Review of Norton’s the Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference1
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy1
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories1
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-41
Kinds Without Structure Are Blind; Structure Without Kinds Is Empty: Remarks on the Methodology of Consciousness Science1
Dark Matter in Zwicky’s Cosmology: Towards an Epistemological Reconstruction1
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice1
The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference: Replies to Barroso Rojo, de Grefte, and Tricard1
The Momentum of the Medium: General Covariance alla Donatello1
No Nothing from Infinity Paradox: A Detailed Analysis1
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief1
Comments on Norton’s The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference1
Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and the Screening-Off Challenge: A Critical Review1
Formalism 251
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
Archaeology’s Turn to Ontology: A Philosophical Perspective0
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
Newtonian Time from Timeless Dynamics0
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 97830307234840
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
Mental Construction: A Shared Framework in Psychology and Husserl-Inspired Model of Intentionality0
Books Received0
Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 97801996066580
Mechanistic Constitution as a Natural Law in Better Best Systems0
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds0
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism0
A Plea for Relativism: Review of Paul Feyerabend: Historische Wurzeln moderner Probleme: Vorlesung an der ETH Zürich 19850
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science0
Does Quantum Cosmology Predict the Age of the Universe?0
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism0
Cultural Evolution and Human Autonomy0
Scientific Unity in Street’s Darwinian Dilemma0
Turing’s Philosophy of AI0
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism0
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
Back to Reichenbach0
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
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
Book Symposium0
Models: Measuring or Cognitive Instruments?0
The Pitfalls and Dangers of Idealising in Political Philosophy0
Complementing Science: Lessons from the History and Philosophy of Thermal Physics0
Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy0
Controversy on the Materiality and Structure of Spacetime: Issues and Insights0
Transaction Costs Economics and Good Scientific Practice0
Metaphysical Pseudo-underdetermination0
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate0
Infinite Practices, One Mathematics: Challenging Mathematical Pluralism0
Demarcation that Makes the Layperson Smart0
The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach0
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
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
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem0
Ludwik Fleck: Philosopher of Scientific Practice0
A Taxonomy for the Mereology of Entangled Quantum Systems0
How Do We Observe Relational Observables?0
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
Spacetime Singularities and Incompleteness: Epistemic and Ontological Remarks0
Pure Shape Dynamics, Self-Subsisting Structures, and the Nature of Time0
Causes in Neuron Diagrams, and Testing Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Glimpse of the Future of Philosophy?0
Dishonest Testimony and the Virtue of Testimonial Justice: A Naive Bayesian Analysis0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
Editorial0
Natural Selection: A Mechanism, A Pathway or A Little Bit of Both?0
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction0
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency0
Conceptual Structuralism0
The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism0
Reasoning with Models in Norton’s Material Theory of Induction0
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem0
Klaus Hentschel: Lichtquanten: Die Geschichte des komplexen Konzepts und mentalen Modells von Photonen. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, 2023, 388pp., €37.99 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-3-662-66932-70
The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology0
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality0
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology0
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
Maria M. Sojka: A Heated Debate: Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023, 228pp., €45.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-80
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges0
Why We Disagree About the Success of Replications0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
The Universe’s Fine-Tuning Does Call for Explanation0
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
Detection Properties as a Basis for Realism Across the Sciences0
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange0
James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 90pp., €21.23 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090091570
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 Time in Thermal Time0
Pluralistic and Monistic Tendencies in the Life Sciences0
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
Function and Selection Beyond Externalism: Addressing the Impact of Explanatory Internalism in the Selected-Effect Theory0
The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View0
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances0
Quantum Tunneling to the Pacific? Remarks on Alexander Wendt’s Quantum Social Science0
Demystifying Downward Causation in Biology0
Assessing Vickers’ Plea for Identifying Future-Proof Science0
Editorial Introduction: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2022)0
Practices of Comparing and Conceptual Change in Early Molecular Biology0
Is Mathematics Like a Game?0
The Puzzle of Fictional Models0
The Physiologist Johannes Peter Müller and the Philosopher Spinoza: An Underestimated Relation0
Induction and the Principles of Love in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Nature0
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction0
“Respectful Denunciation, Peaceful Incitement, and Productive Frustration”: the Wonderfully Subversive Project of Hasok Chang’s Realism for Realistic People0
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion0
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic0
Poetic Understanding and Scientific Knowledge: Models as Aesthetic Descriptions0
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
Bessel and the Epistemology of Observational Relativity0
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
On Carnap’s Syntactic and Semantic Explications of Analyticity0
Introduction0
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology0
Review of Lefèvre, Wolfgang (ed.). Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant. Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century (2nd edition)0
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Reductionism, Supervenience, and Carnap’s Account of Empirical Confirmability0
Philippe Huneman: Death: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, XIX, 542pp., €116.59 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-031-14416-50
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
On the Preeminence of Euclidean Geometry: Nash’s Embedding Theorems0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
Reasoning by Analogy and by Difference0
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments0
The Change-Driver Account of Scientific Discovery: Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Discovery of the Expanding Universe0
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics0
Questioning the Emergence of Time0
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