- PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
- In Memoriam: Colin Howson
- PSA volume 91 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
- Beyond finite additivity
- Review of Boyd et al.’s Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There – “Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There”, edited by Nora Mills Boyd, Siska De Baerdemaeker , Kevin Heng, and Vera Matarese , Cham: Springer, 2023.
- PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
- PSA volume 91 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
- Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-Based Approaches
- Pride and Probability
- 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).
- Landscapes and Bandits: A Unified Model of Functional and Demographic Diversity
- Pain Asymbolia is Not Pain
- Totality, Regularity, and Cardinality in Probability Theory
- Deception as Mimicry
- Growth From Uncertainty: Understanding the Replication ‘Crisis’ in Infant Cognition
- Confidence in Probabilistic Risk Assessment
- Theory Choice as Niche Construction: The Feedback Loop between Scientific Theories and Epistemic Values
- Causal Explanation and Revealed Preferences
- Justifying Scientific Progress
- Health and Disease: Between Naturalism and Normativism
- Review of Slobodan Perović’s From Data to Quanta – Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics – Slobodan Perovi ć, From Data to Quanta – Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press (2021), 280 pp., $45 (cloth).
- An Evolutionary Account of Guilt?
- The Principle of Dynamic Holism: Guiding Methodology for Investigating Cognition in Nonneuronal Organisms
- Henderson on Meta-Induction and the Problem of Induction
- Review of Caitlin Donahue Wylie’s Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes – Caitlin Donahue Wylie, Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2021), 264 pp. $75.00 (paperback)
- What Do Sexes Have to Do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?
- The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy
- Review of Stavros Ioannidis and Stathis Psillos’s Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? – Stavros Ioannidisand Stathis Psillos , Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 250 pp. $99.99 (hardback)
- Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice
- Can Machines Learn How Clouds Work? The Epistemic Implications of Machine Learning Methods in Climate Science
- The Borel-Kolmogorov Paradox Is Your Paradox Too: A Puzzle for Conditional Physical Probability
- Dutch Books and Logical Form
- When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?
- g as Bridge Model
- The Ecological Dimension of Natural Selection
- The Diversity-Ability Trade-Off in Scientific Problem Solving
- Adaptive Design, Contingency, and Ontological Principles for Limited Beings
- How American Is Pragmatism?
- From Fly Detectors to Action Control: Representations in Reinforcement Learning
- Explanatory Coherence and the Impossibility of Confirmation by Coherence
- Incentivizing Replication Is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust
- How Anti-Humeans Can Embrace a Thermodynamic Reduction of Time’s Causal Arrow
- Nash, Bargaining and Evolution
- Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach
- The Substantial Role of Weyl Symmetry in Deriving General Relativity from String Theory
- Simulation and Calibration: Mitigating Uncertainty
- The Evolutionary Origins of Cooperation in the Hominin Lineage: A Critique of Boyd and Richerson’s Cultural Group Selection Account
- Creativity in the Social Epistemology of Science
- Model Organisms for Studying Decision-Making: A Phylogenetically Expanded Perspective
- Edmond Goblot’s (1858–1935) Selected Effects Theory of Function: A Reappraisal
- On Measurement Scales: Neither Ordinal Nor Interval?
- On the Limits of Cultural Relativism as a Debiasing Method
- Du Châtelet on the Need for Mathematics in Physics
- What Is Really Quantum in Quantum Econophysics?
- A Problem for Confirmation Measure Z
- How Dissent on Gender Bias in Academia Affects Science and Society: Learning from the Case of Climate Change Denial
- Determinism and General Relativity
- A New Role for Mathematics in Empirical Sciences
- Errol Morris. The Ashtray; or, The Man Who Denied Reality
- Lange on Minimal Model Explanations: A Defense of Batterman and Rice
- Elaine Landry, ed. Categories for the Working Philosopher
- The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism
- Maria Kronfeldner. What’s Left of Human Nature? A Post-essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept,
- Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles
- A Conflict between Indexical Credal Transparency and Relevance Confirmation
- Roberto Gronda. Dewey’s Philosophy of Science,
- Vassend on Verisimilitude and Counterfactual Probabilities
- Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments
- True Griceanism: Filling the Gaps in Callender and Cohen’s Account of Scientific Representation
- Tracking Confirmation
- Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions
- Metainduction over Unboundedly Many Prediction Methods: A Reply to Arnold and Sterkenburg
- Nancy Cartwright. Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better,
- Demarcating and Judging Medicine: Review of Broadbent’s “Philosophy of Medicine”
- Proof of Concept Research
- A Structural Justification of Probabilism: From Partition Invariance to Subjective Probability
- There Are No Mathematical Explanations
- A Justification of the Probabilistic Explanation of the Entropy Principle
- Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer. What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views
- Samir Okasha. Agents and Goals in Evolution
- Etiological Kinds
- Reintroducing Kin Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences
- Compressibility and the Reality of Patterns
- Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism
- Cognitive Models Are Distinguished by Content, Not Format
- Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?
- Newton Did Change His Views from Certainty to Probability
- Method-Driven Experiments and the Search for Dark Matter
- Multiple-Models Juxtaposition and Trade-Offs among Modeling Desiderata
- Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation
- Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets
- Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data
- The Reference Class Problem for Credit Valuation in Science
- Mate Choice and Null Models
- Signature-Based Model-Independent Searches at the Large Hadron Collider: An Experimental Strategy Aiming at Safeness in a Theory-Dependent Way
- Polychrony and the Process View of Computation
- Biological Individuality, Pregnancy, and (Mammalian) Reproduction
- On Robustness in Cosmological Simulations
- Functions and Functioning in Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and in Ecology
- Searching for Signatures
- Gloomy Prospects and Roller Coasters: Finding Coherence in Genome-Wide Association Studies
- Crowding out Memetic Explanation
- Positional Information and the Measurement of Specificity
- Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability
- Models and Fictions: Not So Similar after All?
- Varieties of Subjectivity
- Epidemiological Evidence: Use at Your ‘Own Risk’?
- Near-Decomposability and the Timescale Relativity of Causal Representations
- Through the Fractured Looking Glass
- Understanding, Truth, and Epistemic Goals
- Idealization and Many Aims
- Local Model-Data Symbiosis in Meteorology and Climate Science
- Structure and Equivalence
- Observations, Simulations, and Reasoning in Astrophysics
- On the Evolution of Compositional Language
- Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science
- Commercial Interests and the Erosion of Trust in Science
- Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation
- Understanding, Values, and the Aims of Science
- How Many Organisms during a Pregnancy?
- Convention and the Origins of Ownership
- The Division of Replication Labor
- Stable Engrams and Neural Dynamics
- Universality and Modeling Limiting Behaviors
- Toward the Emergence of Nontrivial Compositionality
- Political Legitimacy in the Democratic View: The Case of Climate Services
- Validating the Universe in a Box
- Transparency in Complex Computational Systems
- Multiple Realizability from a Causal Perspective
- The Classical Limit as an Approximation
- Multiple Realization in Systems Biology
- A Framework for Pragmatic Reliability
- From Implausible Artificial Neurons to Idealized Cognitive Models: Rebooting Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- PAC Learning and Occam’s Razor: Probably Approximately Incorrect
- What Is a Replication?
- Review of Stuart Glennan, The New Mechanical Philosophy
- ‘Ramseyfying’ Probabilistic Comparativism
- Position Measurements and the Empirical Status of Particles in Bohmian Mechanics
- Craig Callender. What Makes Time Special?,
- How We Think about Human Nature: The Naturalizing Error
- Quantum Randomness and Underdetermination
- Necessary Laws and the Problem of Counterlegals
- Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View
- The Dual Landscape Model of Adaptation and Niche Construction
- Calibration, Coherence, and Consilience in Radiometric Measures of Geologic Time
- Kon-Tiki Experiments
- Conditional Degree of Belief and Bayesian Inference
- Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and History and Philosophy of Science
- Well-Ordered Science’s Basic Problem
- Classical versus Bayesian Statistics
- Eric Winsberg. Philosophy and Climate Science
- Carrie Figdor. Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates
- Cultural Inheritance in Generalized Darwinism
- On the Equivalence of von Neumann and Thermodynamic Entropy
- Similarity Structure and Emergent Properties
- The Small Number System
- The Requirement of Total Evidence: A Reply to Epstein’s Critique
- Actual Causation and Compositionality
- In Defense of the Requirement of Total Evidence
- Bayesian Decision Theory and Stochastic Independence
- A Defense of Low-Probability Scientific Explanations
- Interpreting Non-Hausdorff (Generalized) Manifolds in General Relativity
- Learning Concepts: A Learning-Theoretic Solution to the Complex-First Paradox
- What’s the Problem with the Cosmological Constant?
- Otavio Bueno and Steven French. Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation
- Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann. The Fight against Doubt: How to Bridge the Gap between Scientists and the Public
- Binding Specificity and Causal Selection in Drug Design
- The Mismeasure of Consciousness: A Problem of Coordination for the Perceptual Awareness Scale
- Algebraic Fields and the Dynamical Approach to Physical Geometry
- Did the Universe Have a Chance?
- Neural Redundancy and Its Relation to Neural Reuse
- Evolutionary Species in Light of Population Genomics
- The Roles of Possibility and Mechanism in Narrative Explanation
- Mixed-Effects Modeling and Nonreductive Explanation
- The Metainductive Justification of Induction: The Pool of Strategies
- Are Emotions Psychological Constructions?
- What Is a Lineage?
- Multiple Realizability and Biological Modality
- When Causal Specificity Does Not Matter (Much): Insights from HIV Treatment
- William James’s Objection to Epiphenomenalism
- (F)utility Exposed
- Epistemic Loops and Measurement Realism
- What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)
- How to Be a Historically Motivated Antirealist: The Problem of Misleading Evidence
- Speech Act Theory and the Multiple Aims of Science
- Occam’s Razor in Molecular and Systems Biology
- Why Replication Is Overrated
- What Is the Harm in Gendered Citation Practices?
- Universality Reduced
- There Are No Ahistorical Theories of Function
- Two Kinds of Exploratory Models
- Are Higher Mechanistic Levels Causally Autonomous?
- Representations Are Rate-Distortion Sweet Spots
- The Hard Problem of Theory Choice: A Case Study on Causal Inference and Its Faithfulness Assumption
- Species as Models
- Perception, Representation, Realism, and Function
- The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules and the Interactive Conception of Chemical Bonding
- Explanatory Conditionals
- Historical Inductions Meet the Material Theory
- A Defense and Definition of Construct Validity in Psychology
- Inquiry Tickets: Values, Pursuit, and Underdetermination
- A Tale of Two Individuality Accounts and Integrative Pluralism
- The Similarity of Causal Structure
- Supervenience, Reduction, and Translation
- Scientific/Intellectual Movements Remedying Epistemic Injustice: The Case of Indigenous Studies
- The Value of Completeness: How Mendeleev Used His Periodic System to Make Predictions
- Do Collaborators in Science Need to Agree?
- Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatric Classification
- Rehabilitating “Disease”: Function, Value, and Objectivity in Medicine
- Survival, Reproduction, and Functional Efficiency
- Humeanism, Best System Laws, and Emergence
- New Semantics for Bayesian Inference: The Interpretive Problem and Its Solutions
- Direct Inference in the Material Theory of Induction
- A Reply to Nina Emery
- Thumper the Infinitesimal Rabbit: A Fictionalist Perspective on Some “Unimaginable” Model Systems in Biology
- On Boltzmann versus Gibbs and the Equilibrium in Statistical Mechanics
- Reply to Jim Woodward’s Comments on Wolfgang Spohn’s Laws of Belief
- On Wolfgang Spohn’s Laws of Belief
- A New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress
- Deidealization: No Easy Reversals
- Phase Transitions: A Challenge for Intertheoretic Reduction?
- An Epistemology of Scientific Practice
- Dominique Raynaud. Scientific Controversies: A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science
- Review of Simon Prosser’s Experiencing Time
- Artificial versus Substantial Gauge Symmetries: A Criterion and an Application to the Electroweak Model
- Incest, Incest Avoidance, and Attachment: Revisiting the Westermarck Effect
- Natural Selection and Contrastive Explanation
- A Theory of Epistemic Risk
- Review of Angela Potochnik’s Idealization and the Aims of Science
- Experimental Philosophy of Science and Philosophical Differences across the Sciences
- Are There Teleological Functions to Compute?
- A New Account of Replication in the Experimental Life Sciences
- Stochastic Stability and Disagreements between Dynamics
- Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré, eds. Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology,
- Adjusting Inferential Thresholds to Reflect Nonepistemic Values
- Kevin Elliott. A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science,
- The Representational Semantic Conception
- The Structure and Function of Experimental Control in the Life Sciences
- In Favor of Logarithmic Scoring
- Another Approach to Consensus and Maximally Informed Opinions with Increasing Evidence
- The Aesthetics of Theory Selection and the Logics of Art
- Extrapolation of Experimental Results through Analogical Reasoning from Latent Classes
- Phonetic Segments and the Organization of Speech
- A Better Way of Framing Williamson’s Coin-Tossing Argument, but It Still Does Not Work
- Scientific Expertise and Risk Aggregation
- Diversity, Ability, and Expertise in Epistemic Communities
- Levels of Reasons Why and Answers to Why Questions
- On the Explanatory Depth and Pragmatic Value of Coarse-Grained, Probabilistic, Causal Explanations
- Carl Gillett. Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy
- Diversity, Not Randomness, Trumps Ability
- Network Modularity as a Foundation for Neural Reuse
- Inclusive Fitness as a Measure of Biological Utility
- The Correlation Argument for Reductionism
- Definable Categorical Equivalence
- Thomas Boyer-Kassem, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Weisberg, eds. Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge: New Essays
- The Time of Data: Timescales of Data Use in the Life Sciences
- The Peculiar Logic of the Black-Scholes Model
- Generality and Causal Interdependence in Ecology
- Natural Kinds, Mind Independence, and Defeasibility
- How to Do Digital Philosophy of Science
- Holism, or the Erosion of Modularity: A Methodological Challenge for Validation
- Simplicity and Simplification in Astrophysical Modeling
- Scale Dependency and Downward Causation in Biology
- Wishful Thinking and Values in Science
- Sex Drugs and Corporate Ventriloquism: How to Evaluate Science Policies Intended to Manage Industry-Funded Bias
- Biological Information as Choice and Construction
- Addressing Industry-Funded Research with Criteria for Objectivity
- Discussing What Would Happen: The Role of Thought Experiments in Galileo’s Dialogues
- What and How Do Cancer Systems Biologists Explain?
- Neutral Spaces and Topological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology: Lessons from Some Landscapes and Mappings
- Explanatory Relevance and Contrastive Explanation
- Renormalization Group Realism: The Ascent of Pessimism
- Explanation of Molecular Processes without Tracking Mechanism Operation
- From Microscopes to Optogenetics: Ian Hacking Vindicated
- The Evolution of Psychological Altruism
- Understanding Leopold’s Concept of “Interdependence” for Environmental Ethics and Conservation Biology
- The Efficiency Question in Economics
- Strategies of Explanatory Abstraction in Molecular Systems Biology
- Democratizing Strategies for Industry-Funded Medical Research: A Cautionary Tale
- Optogenetics, Pluralism, and Progress
- The (A)temporal Emergence of Spacetime
- Renormalization and the Formulation of Scientific Realism
- Animal Cognition and Human Values
- Emotional Expressions as Speech Act Analogs
- Meta-Research Evidence for Evaluating Therapies
- Ecological Interdependence via Constraints
- Idealization and Galileo’s Proto-Inertial Principle
- The Public Understanding of What? Laypersons’ Epistemic Needs, the Division of Cognitive Labor, and the Demarcation of Science
- Scientists’ Reuse of Old Empirical Data: Epistemological Aspects
- The Dark Galaxy Hypothesis
- Representing and Explaining: The Eikonic Conception of Scientific Explanation
- Memory and Optogenetic Intervention: Separating the Engram from the Ecphory
- What Emotions Really Are (In the Theory of Constructed Emotions)
- Bayesianism and Explanatory Unification: A Compatibilist Account
- Peter J. Lewis. Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics,
- Causal Selection and the Pathway Concept
- Modeling: Neutral, Null, and Baseline
- Review of Karen Neander’s A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics
- The Importance of Constraints and Control in Biological Mechanisms: Insights from Cancer Research
- The Error Is in the Gap: Synthesizing Accounts for Societal Values in Science
- What Preferences Really Are
- What Do Symmetries Tell Us about Structure?
- New Perspectives on Reductionism in Biology
- Review of Sabina Leonelli’s Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study
- Data, Evidence, and Explanatory Power
- Explanatory Justice: The Case of Disjunctive Explanations
- Taking Reductionism to the Limit: How to Rebut the Antireductionist Argument from Infinite Limits
- Review of Jonathan Bain’s CPT Invariance and the Spin-Statistics Connection
- Discrimination and Collaboration in Science
- Perspectival Modeling
- Indexically Structured Ecological Communities
- Evidence Enriched
- Fundamentality and Time’s Arrow
- “Antiscience Zealotry”? Values, Epistemic Risk, and the GMO Debate
- Richard Pettigrew. Accuracy and the Laws of Credence
- What’s the Point of Ceteris Paribus? or, How to Understand Supply and Demand Curves
- An Axiomatic Theory of Inductive Inference
- Maxwell Gravitation
- Recovering Recovery: On the Relationship between Gauge Symmetry and Trautman Recovery
- What Do Object Files Pick Out?
- Referees for Philosophy of Science
- On the Renormalization Group Explanation of Universality
- Kenneth F. Schaffner. Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?
- The Debate over Inclusive Fitness as a Debate over Methodologies
- Values and Data Collection in Social Research
- Inductive Risk and Regulatory Toxicology: A Comment on de Melo-Martín and Intemann
- Bayes, Bounds, and Rational Analysis
- Erratum
- Letting Go of “Natural Kind”: Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Nonarbitrary Classification
- Standards for Modest Bayesian Credences
- On the Choice of Algebra for Quantization
- Old Evidence in the Development of Quantum Theory
- Against Selective Realism(s)
- Novelty versus Replicability: Virtues and Vices in the Reward System of Science
- On Epistemically Detrimental Dissent: Contingent Enabling Factors versus Stable Difference-Makers
- Interventionist Causation in Thermodynamics
- Scientific Representation and Theoretical Equivalence
- Mind the Gap: Boltzmannian versus Gibbsian Equilibrium
- Interventions and Counternomic Reasoning
- Regularity Comparativism about Mass in Newtonian Gravity
- Can Typicality Arguments Dissolve Cosmology’s Flatness Problem?
- Invariance, Interpretation, and Motivation
- Measurement of Statistical Evidence: Picking Up Where Hacking and Others Left Off
- Natural Selection, Mechanism, and the Statistical Interpretation
- Intimate Connections: Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Quantum versus Classical Mechanics
- Against Organizational Functions
- Using Democratic Values in Science: An Objection and (Partial) Response
- Three Arguments for Absolute Outcome Measures
- Dissolving the Missing Heritability Problem
- Experimentation by Industrial Selection
- The Causal Homology Concept
- Responsiveness and Robustness in the David Lewis Signaling Game
- Literal versus Careful Interpretations of Scientific Theories: The Vacuum Approach to the Problem of Motion in General Relativity
- Mathematical Explanation and the Biological Optimality Fallacy
- On Mushroom Individuality
- Unreal Observables
- Phenomena and Objects of Research in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences
- Contingency and Individuality: A Plurality of Evolutionary Individuality Types
- Stable Property Clusters and Their Grounds
- Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation
- Making Fit Fit
- There Is a Special Problem of Scientific Representation
- Real Patterns in Biological Explanation
- Dynamical Systems Theory and Explanatory Indispensability
- Anthropomorphism as Cognitive Bias
- Newton: From Certainty to Probability?
- Hypothesis Competition beyond Mutual Exclusivity
- No Free Lunch Theorem, Inductive Skepticism, and the Optimality of Meta-induction
- Inherent Complexity: A Problem for Statistical Model Evaluation
- Potential Controversies: Causation and the Hodgkin and Huxley Equations
- Crash Testing an Engineering Framework in Neuroscience: Does the Idea of Robustness Break Down?
- On the Inextendibility of Space-Time
- Sameness and Separability in Gauge Theories
- Review of Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology
- Cross-Unit Causation and the Identity of Groups
- Marcel Boumans. Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics
- Visual Reference and Iconic Content
- On Newtonian Induction
- The Volterra Principle Generalized
- Communism and the Incentive to Share in Science
- The Fine-Tuning Argument and the Requirement of Total Evidence
- A Pragmatist’s Guide to Epistemic Utility
- Putting on the Garber Style? Better Not
- A Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function
- Climate Change Assessments: Confidence, Probability, and Decision
- A Naturalist’s Guide to Objective Chance
- Interactive Causes: Revising the Markov Condition
- The Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence
- Robustness and Independent Evidence
- Explanation = Unification? A New Criticism of Friedman’s Theory and a Reply to an Old One
- Franklin’s Field Guide to Scientific Experiments
- Which Kind of Causal Specificity Matters Biologically?
- Smart Representations: Rationality and Evolution in a Richer Environment
- Review of Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account by Gualtiero Piccinini
- Against the Topologists: Essay Review of New Foundations for Physical Geometry