Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey53
Book Review41
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization35
Book Forum27
Book Forum25
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories24
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant22
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?20
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies18
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint18
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation18
Selection in molecular evolution17
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories17
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190017
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study15
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics15
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes14
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle14
Book Review13
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change13
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context12
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability12
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy12
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function12
Putting inference to the best explanation into context11
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”11
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori11
Book Review11
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure11
The new demarcation problem10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning10
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author10
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum10
Book Forum10
Editorial Board9
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies9
Book Forum9
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail9
Animal deception and the content of signals9
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy9
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics9
Studies A, B, and C merger9
Convergence strategies for theory assessment8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century8
Book Forum8
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research8
How to trust a scientist8
Book Review8
Editorial Board8
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms8
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany8
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism8
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation7
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect7
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm7
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence7
Cosmological realism7
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties7
Book Forum7
Berkeley on true motion7
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation7
Descartes on certainty in deduction7
Book Review7
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy7
“Population” in biology and statistics7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology6
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond6
Book Review6
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science6
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus6
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’6
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement6
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics6
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW6
Evidence of effectiveness6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics6
Editorial Board6
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity6
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer5
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–19805
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?5
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview5
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project5
Book Review5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation5
Editorial Board5
Book Review5
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science5
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities5
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 neuroscience5
‘Species’ without species5
Book Forum5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations5
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?5
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition5
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research4
The case of the vanishing wavefunction4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization4
Book Forum4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked4
Editorial Board4
Book Forum4
Book Forum4
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term4
Animism and science in European perspective4
Book Forum4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective4
Book Review4
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy4
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?4
How physics flew the philosophers' nest4
Book review4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage4
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century4
Modus Darwin redux4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model4
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately4
Whatever happened to reversion?4
Book Review4
The metaphysics of fibre bundles4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?4
Book Review4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature4
Book Review4
The five problems of irreversibility3
Value management and model pluralism in climate science3
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening3
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain3
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence3
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory3
The morphological paradigm in robotics3
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?3
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction3
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science3
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science3
What could mathematics be for it to function in distinctively mathematical scientific explanations?3
The delusive benefit of the doubt3
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics3
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology3
Editorial Board3
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory3
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics3
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models3
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations3
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI3
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit3
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19703
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach3
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences3
Editorial Board3
On the relativity of magnitudes3
Book Review3
Editorial Board3
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics3
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic2
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations2
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory2
Hempel on scientific understanding2
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science2
Towards noncommutative quantum reality2
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature2
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries2
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes2
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman2
Where organisms meet the environment2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry2
Editorial Board2
Book Forum2
Quantization: History and problems2
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities2
Book Review2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
Book Review2
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research2
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness2
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.2
The imperative for inclusion: A gender analysis of genetics2
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance2
Quantum gravity at low energies2
Editorial Board2
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community2
Functionalising the wavefunction2
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel2
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–19402
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus2
On Mach on time2
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen2
Interpreting the Wigner–Eckart Theorem2
Book Review2
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?2
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz2
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease2
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples2
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective2
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science2
John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physics2
Extrapolating animal consciousness2
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics2
Animal culture: But of which kind?2
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts1
Contingentism for historians1
When the “realism of assumptions” mattered: Milton Friedman's critique of the Phillips curve1
Book Forum1
Theoretical concepts as goal-derived concepts1
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue1
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models1
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry1
R.A. Fisher, indeterminism, and the fundamental theorem of natural selection1
Ontological pluralism and social values1
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate1
Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making1
Editorial Board1
Ancient Greek laws of nature1
Development and transfer of automated methods in neuroscience: The DADTA1
Newton's “law-first” epistemology and “matter-first” metaphysics1
Getting from here to there: The contingency of historical evidence and the value of speculation1
Humboldt, Darwin, and romantic resonance in science1
Expanding the notion of mechanism to further understanding of biopsychosocial disorders? Depression and medically-unexplained pain as cases in point1
Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory1
Book Forum1
Book Review1
Design principles as minimal models1
Book Forum1
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified1
Scientific patronage in the age of Darwin: The curious case of William Boyd Dawkins1
Scientific inertia in animal-based research in biomedicine1
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