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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The new demarcation problem40
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD32
Severe weather event attribution: Why values won't go away29
On value-laden science27
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community23
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness22
Three legs of the missing heritability problem19
‘Species’ without species18
The death of the cortical column? Patchwork structure and conceptual retirement in neuroscientific practice17
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere17
Robustness reasoning in climate model comparisons17
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease17
Understanding climate phenomena with data-driven models16
Peirce on the justification of abduction15
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology15
Value management and model pluralism in climate science14
Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics14
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function13
Scientific inertia in animal-based research in biomedicine13
The five problems of irreversibility11
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences11
Environmentality in biomedicine: microbiome research and the perspectival body11
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI11
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry11
(Mis)Understanding scientific disagreement: Success versus pursuit-worthiness in theory choice11
The futility of decision making research11
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms10
Is meta-analysis of RCTs assessing the efficacy of interventions a reliable source of evidence for therapeutic decisions?10
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately9
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory9
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science9
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons9
The politics of environments before the environment: Biopolitics in the longue durée9
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability9
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain9
Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics8
Heritable changeability: Epimutation and the legacy of negative definition in epigenetic concepts8
Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory8
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies8
A child of prediction. On the History, Ontology, and Computation of the Lennard-Jonesium8
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples8
String theory, Einstein, and the identity of physics: Theory assessment in absence of the empirical8
How to trust a scientist8
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening8
The emergence of objectivity: Fleck, Foucault, Kuhn and Hacking8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties8
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake8
Bias as an epistemic notion8
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease8
Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology7
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry7
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem7
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism7
Transparency and secrecy in citizen science: Lessons from herping7
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition7
Scale in the history of medicine7
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics7
Quantum gravity at low energies7
Synthetic biology as a technoscience: The case of minimal genomes and essential genes7
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science7
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics7
Structure, scale and emergence7
Describing model relations: The case of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) family in financial economics6
Countering medical nihilism by reconnecting facts and values6
Newton on active and passive quantities of matter6
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy6
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project6
Network effects in a bounded confidence model6
Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–20006
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution6
Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research”6
How non-epistemic values can be epistemically beneficial in scientific classification6
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity6
An algebraic approach to physical fields6
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models6
How uncertainty can save measurement from circularity and holism6
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories6
No-go theorems: What are they good for?5
Edge cases in animal research law: Constituting the regulatory borderlands of the UK's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act5
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science5
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?5
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science5
Animal culture: But of which kind?5
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation5
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations5
Sins of inquiry: How to criticize scientific pursuits5
Animal deception and the content of signals5
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science5
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin5
Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development5
Evaluating community science5
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism5
Francis Galton’s regression towards mediocrity and the stability of types5
What could mathematics be for it to function in distinctively mathematical scientific explanations?5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?5
Growing knowledge: Epistemic objects in agricultural extension work5
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities5
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint5
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research5
Evidence of effectiveness5
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified5
Predicting and explaining with machine learning models: Social science as a touchstone4
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries4
Beyond descriptive accuracy: The central dogma of molecular biology in scientific practice4
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts4
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate4
What is narrative possibility?4
How many properties of spin does a particle have?4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy4
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories4
Taking up statistical thermodynamics: Equilibrium fluctuations and irreversibility4
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate4
Distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate roles for values in transdisciplinary research4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked4
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery4
Discovering autoinhibition as a design principle for the control of biological mechanisms4
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy4
Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling4
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar4
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under4
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism4
The morphological paradigm in robotics4
Operational theories as structural realism4
Cosmological realism4
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle4
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective4
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond4
How and when did locality become ‘local realism’? A historical and critical analysis (1963–1978)4
Enzyme classification and the entanglement of values and epistemic standards4
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?4
Charles Darwin as a statistical thinker4
Towards noncommutative quantum reality4
Disciplining cattle reproduction: Veterinary reproductive science, bull infertility, and the mid-twentieth century transformation of Swedish dairy cattle breeding4
Some historiographical tools for the study of intellectual legacies4
Epistemic benefits of the material theory of induction4
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research4
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization4
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity4
Drawing scales apart: The origins of Wilson's conception of effective field theories4
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration: Lessons from the Chicago Wilderness4
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview4
Situated observation in Bohmian mechanics3
Hempel on scientific understanding3
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry3
Book Review3
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?3
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori3
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach3
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework3
Causation and gravitation in George Cheyne's Newtonian natural philosophy3
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation3
On Mach on time3
Quantum modal indeterminacy3
Quantum metaphysical indeterminacy and the ontological foundations of orthodoxy3
A transformation of Bayesian statistics:Computation, prediction, and rationality3
Author's responses3
Idealizations and analogies: Explaining critical phenomena3
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory3
How (not) to understand weak measurements of velocities3
Proportionality of single nucleotide causation3
Interpreting the Wigner–Eckart Theorem3
The tragedy of the canon; or, path dependence in the history and philosophy of science3
Coincidence and reproducibility in the EHT black hole experiment3
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research3
From successful measurement to the birth of a law: Disentangling coordination in Ohm's scientific practice3
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science3
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology3
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism3
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics3
Colligation in modelling practices: From Whewell’s tides to the San Francisco Bay Model3
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW3
Hertz's Mechanics and a unitary notion of force3
Measures of effectiveness in medical research: Reporting both absolute and relative measures2
Permissible idealizations for the purpose of prediction2
Whatever happened to reversion?2
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics2
Circularity, indispensability, and mathematical explanation in science2
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue2
Kinmaking, progeneration, and ethnography2
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory2
Introduction2
The algorithmic turn in conservation biology: Characterizing progress in ethically-driven sciences2
Relational quantum entanglement beyond non-separable and contextual relativism2
How to make value-driven climate science for policy more ethical2
The environments of reproductive and birth defects research in the U.S. and West Germany (c. 1955–1975)2
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation2
Quantization: History and problems2
Is the classical limit “singular”?2
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman2
Contingentism for historians2
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature2
Debunking material induction2
Mechanistic inquiry and scientific pursuit: The case of visual processing2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics2
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum2
Suppressing spacetime emergence2
The operational framework for quantum theories is both epistemologically and ontologically neutral2
Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?2
Putting inference to the best explanation into context2
Functionalising the wavefunction2
Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective2
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry2
The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis2
‘A better day dawned for biology’: T. J. Parker, New Zealand Huxleyite2
When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problem2
Judgement aggregation in scientific collaborations: The case for waiving expertise2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence2
Finite-size scaling theory: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical phenomena2
Inconsistent idealizations and inferentialism about scientific representation2
I ain’t afraid of no ghost2
An African ethical perspective on South Africa's regulatory frameworks governing animals in research2
Natural selection and the ‘antiquity of man’: Intellectual impacts in the Australian colonies2
Trans-Planckian philosophy of cosmology2
ML interpretability: Simple isn't easy2
Kant's theory of scientific hypotheses in its historical context2
Selection, presentism, and pluralist history2
Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences2
The causal structure of natural kinds2
Accentuate the negative: Locating possibility in Darwin’s ‘long argument’2
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?2
Where organisms meet the environment2
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics2
Book Review2
Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration2
Curie’s principle and causal graphs2
‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–19162
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance2
Comparative infinite lottery logic2
Biological functions are causes, not effects: A critique of selected effects theories2
Darwin and the French: The species question and ‘man’ in Oceania1
Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems1
Chomsky in the playground: Idealization in generative linguistics1
Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin’s draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley’s anti-mathematical philosophy1
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics1
On the relativity of magnitudes1
Book Review1
Structuralism and the conformity of mathematics and nature1
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes1
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?1
Publish without bias or perish without replications1
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”1
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies1
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–19001
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models1
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