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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey64
Book Forum44
Book Review44
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories31
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant31
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation25
Selection in molecular evolution23
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190021
Book Forum20
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories20
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization19
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint18
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies17
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes17
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy15
Book Review15
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle15
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change15
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure14
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context14
Book Review13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context13
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability13
Historicizing gender13
Book Forum13
Editorial Board13
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori12
The new demarcation problem12
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy12
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics11
Editorial Board11
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail11
Book Forum10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe10
Convergence strategies for theory assessment10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning10
Editorial Board10
Book Review10
Editorial Board10
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century10
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany10
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research9
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation9
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 19009
Book Review9
Book Forum9
Berkeley on true motion9
How to trust a scientist9
“Population” in biology and statistics8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties8
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy8
Book Forum8
Descartes on certainty in deduction7
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW7
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation7
Editorial Board7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen7
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus7
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion7
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science7
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’6
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond6
Book Review6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities6
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–19806
Evidence of effectiveness6
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 neuroscience6
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project6
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics6
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition6
Book Review6
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term5
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks5
Editorial Board5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time5
Animism and science in European perspective5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?5
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression5
Book Forum5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century5
Book Review5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer5
Book Forum5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction5
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?4
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?4
Book review4
Modus Darwin redux4
Book Forum4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature4
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas4
Book Review4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake4
Book Forum4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization4
Book Review4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective4
Editorial Board4
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research4
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics3
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI3
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science3
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation3
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models3
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics3
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain3
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?3
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19703
The metaphysics of fibre bundles3
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately3
Book Review3
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations3
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction3
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences3
Editorial Board3
Why did the clinic make gender?3
Whatever happened to reversion?3
Book Forum3
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics3
The delusive benefit of the doubt3
Book Review3
On the relativity of magnitudes3
Editorial Board3
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory2
The morphological paradigm in robotics2
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology2
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
Book Forum2
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus2
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries2
The value-ladenness of ancestry2
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science2
Book Review2
The imperative for inclusion: A gender analysis of genetics2
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel2
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen2
Book Review2
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations2
Book Review2
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science2
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences2
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory2
Editorial Board2
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.2
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes2
John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physics2
Editorial Board2
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples2
On gender genealogies2
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
Animal culture: But of which kind?2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence2
Where organisms meet the environment2
Book Review2
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research2
Quantization: History and problems2
Functionalising the wavefunction2
Towards noncommutative quantum reality2
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics2
On Mach on time2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities2
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness2
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–19402
Editorial Board2
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time2
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
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?2
Extrapolating animal consciousness2
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts1
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate1
Design principles as minimal models1
From dollars to Joules: Integrating energetics into economic theory1
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective1
Book Forum1
Quantum gravity at low energies1
Newton's “law-first” epistemology and “matter-first” metaphysics1
Confirmation, or pursuit-worthiness? Lessons from J. J. Sakurai's 1960 theory of the strong force for the debate on non-empirical physics1
Theoretical concepts as goal-derived concepts1
Editorial Board1
Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making1
Scientific inertia in animal-based research in biomedicine1
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry1
Humboldt, Darwin, and romantic resonance in science1
Ontological pluralism and social values1
Emergence of a techno-legal specialty: Animal tests to assess chemical safety in the UK, 1945–19601
Three legs of the missing heritability problem1
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature1
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman1
Book Review1
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory1
Getting from here to there: The contingency of historical evidence and the value of speculation1
Embedded Ecology: The Partnership Flywheel for integrating local expertise1
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified1
Book Review1
Expanding the notion of mechanism to further understanding of biopsychosocial disorders? Depression and medically-unexplained pain as cases in point1
Book Forum1
When the “realism of assumptions” mattered: Milton Friedman's critique of the Phillips curve1
Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory1
Editorial Board1
Ancient Greek laws of nature1
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance1
Development and transfer of automated methods in neuroscience: The DADTA1
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons1
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry1
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue1
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories1
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models1
Scientific realism, scientific practice, and science communication: An empirical investigation of academics and science communicators1
“Oh, how beautiful life is and how terrible death is!” (Th. Dobzhansky and religion)1
Scientific patronage in the age of Darwin: The curious case of William Boyd Dawkins1
Contingentism for historians1
R.A. Fisher, indeterminism, and the fundamental theorem of natural selection1
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