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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Book Forum75
Selection in molecular evolution44
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories36
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories32
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization31
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study27
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey24
Book Forum24
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant21
Book Review21
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190020
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint20
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle17
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context16
Historicizing gender15
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure14
Book Review14
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori14
Book Forum14
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability13
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change13
Book Review13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context13
Editorial Board12
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
The new demarcation problem11
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy11
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life11
Editorial Board11
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics10
Editorial Board10
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy10
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning9
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail9
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany8
Book Forum8
Convergence strategies for theory assessment8
How to trust a scientist8
Editorial Board8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 19008
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe7
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research7
Book Forum7
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality7
Berkeley on true motion7
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy6
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect6
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change6
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation6
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties6
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries6
Book Review5
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation5
Editorial Board5
Book Forum5
“Population” in biology and statistics5
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence5
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW5
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement5
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis5
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms5
Descartes on certainty in deduction5
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science5
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus5
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics4
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’4
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics4
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal4
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
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview4
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts4
Book Review4
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen4
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities4
Evidence of effectiveness4
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion4
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond3
Editorial Board3
Book Review3
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks3
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time3
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization3
Book Forum3
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project3
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation3
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations3
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation3
Editorial Board2
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy2
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage2
Book review2
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer2
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction2
The case of the vanishing wavefunction2
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant2
Book Review2
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature2
Modus Darwin redux2
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas2
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term2
Book Forum2
Animism and science in European perspective2
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research2
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons2
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model2
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake2
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression2
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century2
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)2
Why did the clinic make gender?1
Book Forum1
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?1
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective1
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics1
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics1
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit1
Book Forum1
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science1
Book Forum1
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI1
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models1
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics1
Is interdisciplinarity a synonym for the search for alternative views of nature?1
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation1
The metaphysics of fibre bundles1
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity1
Book Review1
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?1
Book Review1
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy1
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization1
Editorial Board1
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences1
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19701
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations1
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately1
Whatever happened to reversion?1
Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?0
Disciplinary identity and the idea of a unified social science: A survey of British academics0
Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences0
Cosmological inflation and meta-empirical theory assessment0
Book Forum0
States of ignorance and ignorance of states: Examining the Quantum Principal Principle0
The notorious man-in-the-street: Hermann Weyl and the problem of knowledge0
Ship fever, confinement, and the racialization of disease0
The environments of reproductive and birth defects research in the U.S. and West Germany (c. 1955–1975)0
The ‘biocultural approach’ in Latin American ethnobiology0
Editorial Board0
The controversy about interference of photons0
Human nature and therapeutic forms in B. Mandeville0
Introduction to values and pluralism in the environmental sciences: From inferences to institutions0
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches0
Explanatory circles0
Delayed-choice entanglement swapping experiments: No evidence for timelike entanglement0
Bodies of evidence: The ‘Excited Delirium Syndrome’ and the epistemology of cause-of-death inquiry0
Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective0
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution0
Editorial Board0
Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology0
Natural selection and the ‘antiquity of man’: Intellectual impacts in the Australian colonies0
Epistemic expression in the determination of biomolecular structure0
Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics0
Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?0
Kant's theory of scientific hypotheses in its historical context0
Measurement, decomposition and level-switching in historical science: Geochronology and the ontology of scientific methods0
Book Forum0
Mary Hesse on the role of the human imagination in the philosophy and practice of science0
Can human nature be saved?0
Redefining a discovery: Charles Bell, the respiratory nervous system and the birth of the emotions0
Disregarding evidence: Reasonable options for Newton and Rutherford?0
Red herrings about relative measures: A response to Hoefer and Krauss0
Book Review0
Kant on the many uses of reason in the sciences: A neglected topic0
Book Review0
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?0
Is Bohr's correspondence principle just Hankel's principle of permanence?0
Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems0
Kinmaking, progeneration, and ethnography0
Computer simulation in data analysis: A case study from particle physics0
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle0
Marinus of Alexandria: Galen's anatomical forefather, or: How do you solve a problem like Marinus?0
Histology agnosticism: Infra-molecularizing disease?0
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism0
Book Forum0
Book Review0
Philosophical community from a historical perspective0
ML interpretability: Simple isn't easy0
Non-empirical physics from a historical perspective: New pathways in history and philosophy of physics0
Editorial Board0
Gauge invariance through gauge fixing0
Putting the “Decision” in Ramsey's “Theories”0
Proportionality of single nucleotide causation0
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology0
A previously-unknown Iranian treatise on a terrestrial globe0
Book Review0
Book Forum0
Mach's principle and Mach's hypotheses0
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar0
An African ethical perspective on South Africa's regulatory frameworks governing animals in research0
Quantum metaphysical indeterminacy and the ontological foundations of orthodoxy0
From S-matrix theory to strings: Scattering data and the commitment to non-ar0
Trialability0
Are ‘phase IV’ trials exploratory or confirmatory experiments?0
Reply: An Order of Things?.0
Positivist or post-positivist philosophy of science? The left Vienna Circle and Thomas Kuhn0
Pierre Duhem's rejection of special relativity0
Editorial Board0
Kant on the logical form of organized being0
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin0
Kaila's interpretation of Einstein-Minkowski invariance theory0
Relational Quantum Mechanics, quantum relativism, and the iteration of relativity0
Finite-size scaling theory: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical phenomena0
Book Forum0
Trans-Planckian philosophy of cosmology0
‘A better day dawned for biology’: T. J. Parker, New Zealand Huxleyite0
Book Review0
Independent evidence in multi-messenger astrophysics0
Editorial Board0
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism0
Newtonian gravitation in Maxwell spacetime0
Explaining individual differences0
Hume and the rotting turnip0
Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier0
Drawing scales apart: The origins of Wilson's conception of effective field theories0
Publish without bias or perish without replications0
From Wald to Schnorr: von Mises’ definition of randomness in the aftermath of Ville’s Theorem0
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance0
Were the scale of excitability a circle: Tracing the roots of the disease theory of alcoholism through Brunonian stimulus dependence0
Bolstering superficial measurement robustness with community-based data foundations0
Editorial Board0
Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being0
Causal nonseparability and its implications for spatiotemporal relations0
‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–19160
How and when did locality become ‘local realism’? A historical and critical analysis (1963–1978)0
Theory vs. experiment: The rise of the dynamic view of proteins0
Gravitational redshift revisited: Inertia, geometry, and charge0
A French view of London0
Understanding data uncertainty0
G.G. Simpson's changing attitude towards quantum evolution0
Charles Darwin as a statistical thinker0
Quantum modal indeterminacy0
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Idealisations and the aims of polygenic scores0
Hertz's Mechanics and a unitary notion of force0
Book Forum0
Editorial0
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