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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Essay Review: Complexity Features, (Putative) Truisms, and the Ising Model22
Assessing Vickers’ Plea for Identifying Future-Proof Science21
John Preston (Ed.): Interpreting Mach. Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021, 287 + xii pp., £75 (hardcover), ISBN: 978110847401616
Quentin Ruyant: Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science without Scientific Realism. Springer: Cham, 2021, 230 pp., €119,89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978303072348415
The Physiologist Johannes Peter Müller and the Philosopher Spinoza: An Underestimated Relation12
The Concept of the Universe in Physical Cosmology12
Editorial12
Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach11
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem9
What Does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like?8
Quantities as Metrical Coordinative Definitions and as Counts: On Some Definitional Structures in the New SI Brochure8
Third Conference of the GWP (2019)8
Martin Böhnert: Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Forschung des Geistes von Tieren7
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: 7
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy5
Coordination, Convention and the Constitution of Physical Objects5
Why Computer Simulation Cannot Be an End of Thought Experimentation4
Charles Pence: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic4
Introduction to the Special Issue3
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science3
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments3
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott3
Wojciech Sady: The Structure of the Relativity and Quantum Revolution in Physics (Struktura rewolucji relatywistycznej i kwantowej w fizyce)3
How Do We Observe Relational Observables?3
In Search for Optimal Methods: New Insights About Meta-Induction3
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), ISB3
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez: New Approaches to Scientific Realism3
Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy3
Non-Tethered Understanding and Scientific Pluralism2
On Schurz’s Construction Paradigm of Scientific Theory Development2
The Puzzle of Fictional Models2
The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology2
Conceptual Structuralism2
Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency2
“Respectful Denunciation, Peaceful Incitement, and Productive Frustration”: the Wonderfully Subversive Project of Hasok Chang’s Realism for Realistic People2
Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue2
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson2
The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism1
Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives1
A Twofold Tension in Schurz’s Meta-Inductive Solution to Hume’s Problem of Induction1
A Contextualist Solution to the Demarcation Problem1
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy1
Subatomic Particles, Epistemic Stances, and Kantian Antinomies1
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium1
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction1
Correction to: Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey‑Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives1
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science1
Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past1
Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda1
The Perspectival Realist features of Ernst Mach’s critical epistemology1
The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann1
Scientific Unity in Street’s Darwinian Dilemma1
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method1
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics0
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges0
Second-Order Confidence in Supervaluationism0
The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology0
Kant’s Crucial Contribution to Euler Diagrams0
Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept0
Adaptive Algorithms for Meta-Induction0
In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)0
Induction and the Principles of Love in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Nature0
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems0
Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy0
Demarcation that Makes the Layperson Smart0
Can Science Escape Metaphysics? On Chakravartty’s Scientific Ontology0
Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality0
Running Mice and Successful Theories: The Limitations of a Classical Analogy0
On the Preeminence of Euclidean Geometry: Nash’s Embedding Theorems0
Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons0
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
Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories0
Idealized Models as Selective Representations0
Formal Epistemology Meets Mechanism Design0
The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems0
Transaction Costs Economics and Good Scientific Practice0
Is Everyone Probably Elsewhere?0
Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge0
On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space0
Does Meta-induction Justify Induction: Or Maybe Something Else?0
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt (Eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences0
More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman0
Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie0
Pure Shape Dynamics, Self-Subsisting Structures, and the Nature of Time0
James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 90pp., €21.23 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090091570
Introduction: Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-)Entanglement0
The Change-Driver Account of Scientific Discovery: Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Discovery of the Expanding Universe0
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology0
Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation0
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions0
‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*0
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds0
Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem0
Back to Reichenbach0
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World?0
Questioning the Emergence of Time0
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science0
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances0
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge0
Introduction0
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange0
Andreas Bartels: Wissenschaft. de Gruyter: Berlin, 2021, 255 pp., €24,95 (paperback), ISBN: 97831106482490
Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement0
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism0
Demystifying Downward Causation in Biology0
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds0
James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology0
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity0
The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability0
What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study0
Ludger Pries: Verstehende Kooperation – Herausforderungen für Soziologie und Evolutionsforschung im Anthropozän. Campus: Frankfurt/New York 2021, 446 pp., €34,95, ISBN 978-3-593-51464-20
The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach0
Lara Huber: Relevanz: Über den Erkenntniswert wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Meiner: Hamburg 2020, 189 pp., € 22.00, ISBN: 97837873379720
Likelihoodism and Guidance for Belief0
Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real Causation0
Steven French: There Are No Such Things as Theories0
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem0
Should We Strive to Make Science Bias-Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis0
Angela Potochnik: Science and the Public. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements in the Philosophy of Science), 2024, 84pp., €15.45 (Paperback), ISBN: 97810090488280
Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory0
Correction: Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism0
Books Received0
Roberto Gronda: Dewey’s Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, 218pp., €96,29 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-37561-40
Mittelstraß, Jürgen (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie. 2. neubearbeitete und wesentlich ergänzte Auflage. 8 vols., Stuttgart & Weimar 2005–2018: J. B. Metzler, € 639,600
Epistemic Stances, Arguments and Intuitions0
Categorizing Phenotypic Plasticity: An Analysis of Its Role in Human Cognitive Evolution0
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response0
The Time in Thermal Time0
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate0
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction0
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion0
Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy0
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: 97830305228960
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments0
Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together0
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind0
Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump0
The Scaling-Up Problem from a Mechanistic Point of View0
Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice0
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing0
Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari0
Four Degrees of Temporal Becoming0
The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism0
Austrian Economics and Compatibilist Freedom0
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
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science0
Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually0
Infinite Practices, One Mathematics: Challenging Mathematical Pluralism0
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