Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in History and 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Book Forum35
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey27
Book Forum24
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190022
Book Review22
Selection in molecular evolution21
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study20
Social emergence and unpredictability18
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.18
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant17
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories17
Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-190017
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle16
Book Forum15
Editorial Board14
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context13
Historicizing gender13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context13
Book Forum13
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori11
‘The tensor calculus knows physics better than the physicist’: Bachelard on the role of ‘Covariant Differentiation’ in Relativity theory11
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism10
Editorial Board10
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life9
Editorial Board9
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail9
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another9
Laws, meta-laws, and hydrogenic symmetries: Adapting Lange’s account9
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague9
Book Forum8
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality8
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer8
Book Forum8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century8
Convergence strategies for theory assessment8
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 19008
How to be a scientific realist: a normative–pragmatist proposal7
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries7
Seeing Duhem's bon sens through Dewey's logic. Judgment as the central function of knowing7
Berkeley on true motion7
Book Forum7
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm6
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change6
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect6
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms6
“Population” in biology and statistics6
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research6
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis6
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)6
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy6
Editorial Board6
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction5
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion5
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement5
Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences5
Descartes on certainty in deduction5
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence5
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation5
Editorial Board5
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen5
Is Emergy really a theory of value ?5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology5
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks4
Psychology and the 20th-century Galileo cult: Kurt Lewin vs. Karl Bühler4
Book Forum4
Tables turned on table talk4
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics4
Editorial Board4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations4
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation4
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts4
Book Review4
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer4
Revisiting the Einstein-Bergson debate4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time4
Book Forum4
The policy of testing hypotheses in Chilean science. The role of a hypothesis-driven research funding programme in the installation of a hypothesis-driven experimental system in visual neuroscience4
Book Review4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas3
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy3
Book review3
Animism and science in European perspective3
Book Forum3
The case of the vanishing wavefunction3
Value-freedom & patient autonomy3
Book Forum3
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?3
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature3
Book Forum3
Editorial Board3
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction3
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant3
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?3
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term3
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)3
What does it mean to predict earthquakes?3
Typing Physics: The essential role of typists in intra-scientific communication3
Book Review3
Zygmunt Zawirski: The forgotten forefather of quantum logic3
Modus Darwin redux3
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression3
Book Forum3
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake3
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research3
Editorial Board3
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?2
Sciences versus lettres: A state-sanctioned dualism (France, 1808–2020)2
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19702
The delusive benefit of the doubt2
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity2
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?2
Interpreting the quantum mechanics of cosmology2
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons2
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model2
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation2
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations2
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence2
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences2
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics2
Editorial Board2
The metaphysics of fibre bundles2
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI2
A goal-directed approach to disease classification2
Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis2
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy2
The precision fallacy: On the futility of preference purification2
Editorial Board2
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain2
On the relativity of magnitudes2
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction2
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models2
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective2
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science2
Why did the clinic make gender?2
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?2
Book Forum2
Is interdisciplinarity a synonym for the search for alternative views of nature?2
Editorial Board1
Alice in Taxonomyland: Systematics in mid-twentieth century microbiology1
Extrapolating animal consciousness1
Between myth and history: von Neumann on consciousness in quantum mechanics1
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory1
Quantum gravity at low energies1
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science1
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons1
Echoes of Georgescu-Roegen's thermodynamic view in Latin American development debates1
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics1
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals1
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education1
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature1
Are patient-centered constructs measurable?1
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies1
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel1
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science1
From dollars to Joules: Integrating energetics into economic theory1
Editorial Board1
Book Forum1
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus1
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.1
Buffon's new concept of history1
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry1
Book Forum1
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature1
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations1
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective1
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science1
The value-ladenness of ancestry1
Where organisms meet the environment1
On gender genealogies1
Complementing complementary science with repertoires: The case of phage therapy1
The morphological paradigm in robotics1
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?1
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history1
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science1
A phenomenological approach to quantum mechanics — The London-Bauer-French interpretation1
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes1
Blindspots of empiricism in the discovery of chaos theory1
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen1
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time1
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic1
William Herschel's defense of speculative inquiry1
Quantization: History and problems1
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance1
Evaluating the string-based multiverse research programme from the perspective of the history of science1
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman1
Book Review1
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics1
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories1
Book Review1
A minimalist account of agency in physics1
Book Forum1
Functionalising the wavefunction1
Book Forum1
What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics1
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz1
Fictionalism and scientific realism: A response to ungrounded criticism1
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance0
Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958–1968)0
Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences0
Book Forum0
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics0
Newtonian gravitation in Maxwell spacetime0
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework0
Book Review0
Mathematics and society reunited: The social aspects of Brouwer's intuitionism0
Book Forum0
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments0
The controversy about interference of photons0
Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic approach towards the salutogenic environments0
Rutherford on inorganic evolution0
Explaining individual differences0
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar0
Putting the “Decision” in Ramsey's “Theories”0
Explanatory circles0
Strategic ignorance, and the management of performative effects: Lessons from climate economics0
Book Forum0
Energetics of the mind and the Parallelismusstreit: the mind-body problem and the assimilation of the law of energy conservation in German psychology, 1850-19150
Gravitational redshift revisited: Inertia, geometry, and charge0
Community-led institutional innovation: Groundwater sharing, values and relationships in India’s rainfed farming systems0
Pierre Duhem's rejection of special relativity0
Consciousness and the measurement problem0
Kant on the many uses of reason in the sciences: A neglected topic0
Book Forum0
Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?0
Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?0
Mary Hesse on the role of the human imagination in the philosophy and practice of science0
Book Forum0
Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being0
Epistemic expression in the determination of biomolecular structure0
A French view of London0
Book Forum0
Consistent histories through pragmatist lenses0
Large language models for history, philosophy, and sociology of science: Interpretive uses, methodological challenges, and critical perspectives0
Are ‘phase IV’ trials exploratory or confirmatory experiments?0
Proto-externalist analyses of Darwinism in Polish philosophy at turn of 19th century: How disputes of A. Chałupczyński and B. Dybowski anticipated later controversies among historians of biology0
Disregarding evidence: Reasonable options for Newton and Rutherford?0
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water0
The environments of reproductive and birth defects research in the U.S. and West Germany (c. 1955–1975)0
Book Forum0
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution0
The ‘biocultural approach’ in Latin American ethnobiology0
Of atoms, bricks and cells: A historical critique of historical criticisms of classical cell theory0
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