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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD28
The new demarcation problem27
Severe weather event attribution: Why values won't go away23
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness21
On value-laden science19
‘Species’ without species15
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community14
Peirce on the justification of abduction14
Robustness reasoning in climate model comparisons14
Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics14
Understanding climate phenomena with data-driven models13
Three legs of the missing heritability problem13
Big data and prediction: Four case studies13
Negotiating history: Contingency, canonicity, and case studies13
Multi-model ensembles in climate science: Mathematical structures and expert judgements12
The death of the cortical column? Patchwork structure and conceptual retirement in neuroscientific practice12
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function12
(Mis)Understanding scientific disagreement: Success versus pursuit-worthiness in theory choice11
Historicity and explanation11
The five problems of irreversibility11
Value management and model pluralism in climate science11
Pluralism and anarchism in quantum physics: Paul Feyerabend's writings on quantum physics in relation to his general philosophy of science11
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology10
The futility of decision making research9
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science9
Scientific inertia in animal-based research in biomedicine9
Is meta-analysis of RCTs assessing the efficacy of interventions a reliable source of evidence for therapeutic decisions?9
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry9
Heritable changeability: Epimutation and the legacy of negative definition in epigenetic concepts8
String theory, Einstein, and the identity of physics: Theory assessment in absence of the empirical8
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences8
Environmentality in biomedicine: microbiome research and the perspectival body8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties8
The politics of environments before the environment: Biopolitics in the longue durée8
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere8
The emergence of objectivity: Fleck, Foucault, Kuhn and Hacking8
Standards of evidence and causality in regulatory science: Risk and benefit assessment8
Natural selection and the reference grain problem8
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons7
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies7
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease7
Structure, scale and emergence7
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately7
Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory7
The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments7
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI7
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples7
How to trust a scientist7
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability7
Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics7
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics7
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease6
Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research”6
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory6
Scale in the history of medicine6
Transparency and secrecy in citizen science: Lessons from herping6
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and measuring the invisible: The context of 16th and 17th century micrometry6
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning6
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories6
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition6
Countering medical nihilism by reconnecting facts and values6
Bias as an epistemic notion6
Public scientific testimony in the scientific image6
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics6
History and philosophy of science after the practice-turn: From inherent tension to local integration5
Synthetic biology as a technoscience: The case of minimal genomes and essential genes5
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism5
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science5
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism5
No-go theorems: What are they good for?5
The revolt against rationalism: Feyerabend's critical philosophy5
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science5
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin5
Evaluating community science5
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy5
How non-epistemic values can be epistemically beneficial in scientific classification5
Evidence and explanation in Cicero's On Divination5
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project5
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening5
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity5
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science5
Quantum gravity at low energies5
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities5
Unwarranted assumptions: Claude Bernard and the growth of the vera causa standard5
What kind of novelties can machine learning possibly generate? The case of genomics5
Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development5
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms5
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem5
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry5
Beyond the metrological viewpoint5
Newton on active and passive quantities of matter5
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research5
How uncertainty can save measurement from circularity and holism5
Some historiographical tools for the study of intellectual legacies4
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified4
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure4
How NOT to build an infinite lottery machine4
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview4
The material theory of object-induction and the universal optimality of meta-induction: Two complementary accounts4
Distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate roles for values in transdisciplinary research4
Network effects in a bounded confidence model4
Growing knowledge: Epistemic objects in agricultural extension work4
Enzyme classification and the entanglement of values and epistemic standards4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake4
Disciplining cattle reproduction: Veterinary reproductive science, bull infertility, and the mid-twentieth century transformation of Swedish dairy cattle breeding4
Animal deception and the content of signals4
Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology4
Making sense of non-factual disagreement in science4
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity4
Computing and modelling: Analog vs. Analogue4
Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–20004
What could mathematics be for it to function in distinctively mathematical scientific explanations?4
An algebraic approach to physical fields4
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration: Lessons from the Chicago Wilderness4
Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling4
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?4
Francis Galton’s regression towards mediocrity and the stability of types4
Should physical laws be unit-invariant?4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy4
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery4
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective4
The benefits of acquiring interactional expertise: Why (some) philosophers of science should engage scientific communities4
Taking up statistical thermodynamics: Equilibrium fluctuations and irreversibility4
Hans Reichenbach's and C.I. Lewis's Kantian philosophies of science4
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries4
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under4
Edge cases in animal research law: Constituting the regulatory borderlands of the UK's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act3
Proportionality of single nucleotide causation3
How many properties of spin does a particle have?3
How and when did locality become ‘local realism’? A historical and critical analysis (1963–1978)3
Idealizations and analogies: Explaining critical phenomena3
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW3
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond3
Du Châtelet: Idealist about extension, bodies and space3
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities3
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy3
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle3
Discovering autoinhibition as a design principle for the control of biological mechanisms3
Introduction3
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution3
Beyond descriptive accuracy: The central dogma of molecular biology in scientific practice3
Animal culture: But of which kind?3
Natural diversity: A neo-essentialist misconstrual of homeostatic property cluster theory in natural kind debates3
Sins of inquiry: How to criticize scientific pursuits3
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology3
Describing model relations: The case of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) family in financial economics3
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint3
Causation and gravitation in George Cheyne's Newtonian natural philosophy3
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate3
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation3
Reviving material theories of induction3
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?3
Heaps of moles? – Mediating macroscopic and microscopic measurement of chemical substances3
Situated observation in Bohmian mechanics3
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate3
Hempel on scientific understanding3
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism3
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations3
Epistemic benefits of the material theory of induction3
Colligation in modelling practices: From Whewell’s tides to the San Francisco Bay Model3
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?3
Cosmological realism3
How (not) to understand weak measurements of velocities3
How thin rational choice theory explains choices3
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches3
Charles Darwin as a statistical thinker3
How to infer explanations from computer simulations3
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked3
Quantum sidelights on The Material Theory of Induction3
Towards noncommutative quantum reality3
Judgement aggregation in scientific collaborations: The case for waiving expertise3
Coincidence and reproducibility in the EHT black hole experiment3
Detail and generality in mechanistic explanation2
Hertz's Mechanics and a unitary notion of force2
How to think about analogical inferences: A reply to Norton2
Relational quantum entanglement beyond non-separable and contextual relativism2
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum2
Schemas for induction2
The causal structure of natural kinds2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori2
Is the classical limit “singular”?2
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation2
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization2
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry2
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics2
Mechanistic inquiry and scientific pursuit: The case of visual processing2
Curie’s principle and causal graphs2
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism2
Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences2
An African ethical perspective on South Africa's regulatory frameworks governing animals in research2
Norton's material theory of analogy2
Measures of effectiveness in medical research: Reporting both absolute and relative measures2
A transformation of Bayesian statistics:Computation, prediction, and rationality2
Edward Gresham’s Astrostereon, or A Discourse of the Falling of the Planet (1603), the Copernican paradox, and the construction of early modern proto-scientific discourse2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Book Review2
Permissible idealizations for the purpose of prediction2
The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis2
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science2
Natural selection and the ‘antiquity of man’: Intellectual impacts in the Australian colonies2
‘A better day dawned for biology’: T. J. Parker, New Zealand Huxleyite2
Why does the Chinese public accept evolution?2
Predicting and explaining with machine learning models: Social science as a touchstone2
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?2
Quantum modal indeterminacy2
The algorithmic turn in conservation biology: Characterizing progress in ethically-driven sciences2
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts2
Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration2
Drawing scales apart: The origins of Wilson's conception of effective field theories2
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar2
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?2
Kinmaking, progeneration, and ethnography2
Kant's theory of scientific hypotheses in its historical context2
What is narrative possibility?2
Suppressing spacetime emergence2
What are the drivers of induction? Towards a Material Theory+2
Trans-Planckian philosophy of cosmology2
From successful measurement to the birth of a law: Disentangling coordination in Ohm's scientific practice2
Functionalising the wavefunction2
The inferences of common causes reduced to common origins2
How to make value-driven climate science for policy more ethical2
Accentuate the negative: Locating possibility in Darwin’s ‘long argument’2
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics2
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach2
The environments of reproductive and birth defects research in the U.S. and West Germany (c. 1955–1975)2
I ain’t afraid of no ghost2
On Mach on time2
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory2
The tragedy of the canon; or, path dependence in the history and philosophy of science2
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research2
Quantum metaphysical indeterminacy and the ontological foundations of orthodoxy2
Author's responses2
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature2
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research2
When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problem2
Whatever happened to reversion?2
‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–19162
Operational theories as structural realism2
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics2
Circularity, indispensability, and mathematical explanation in science2
Cicero's demarcation of science: A report of shared criteria2
Comparative infinite lottery logic2
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models2
Inconsistent idealizations and inferentialism about scientific representation2
Book Review2
Interpreting the Wigner–Eckart Theorem2
Debunking material induction2
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation1
Unnatural acts: The transition from Natural Principles to Laws of Nature in Early Modern science1
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