History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	24
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	22
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	15
Physical explanations in evolutionary biology	12
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	12
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	12
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	10
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	10
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	8
Mound builders, mound blunders: mythmaking in nineteenth century American archaeology	8
Operationism in psychology: an epistemology of exploration by Uljana Feest, 2025, The University of Chicago Press	8
The machine-organism relation revisited	7
Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station	7
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	7
Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational	7
Interactions at sea: on the microbiome life-cycle and biogeochemical processes	6
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	6
Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine	6
Early transitions in the evolution of cognition	6
Charles Pence, Integrative promise: explanatory virtues in biology, Springer (Synthese Library), 2025	6
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	6
Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology	5
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	5
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	5
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	5

Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	5
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis: discovery and understanding of a novel disease	5
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	5
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	4
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	4
Embracing environmental DNA? How values influence the integration of a new technology into an oceanographic expedition	4
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	4
Joachim H. Mowitz and Arno L. Goudsmit: Movements of Form	4
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	4
Anchoring the cluster: refining Pigliucci’s family resemblance proposal via a dual constraint model of moderate scientific realism	4
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	4
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	4
What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology	4
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	4
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	4
Kōzai Toyoko . Shutō to iu "eisei": Kinsei Nihon ni okeru yobō sesshu no rekishi [The Road to Immunization: A History of Smallpox in Early Modern	3
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	3
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	3
The sentience of animals in John Dewey’s organic naturalism	3
Regulation in ecological systems: an overview	3
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	2
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	2
The gendered “stathetic” body: a scientifically informed philosophical approach to corporality	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
The experimental psychology behind coordination	2
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	2
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	2
Daniel J. Nicholson: What is life? Revisited	2
Death in advance or people living with dementia? Extending the philosophical discourse of Schweda and Jongsma through the persistence of self and other strengths	2
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	2
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	2
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Crossing paths: historical and philosophical perspectives on cancer and diabetes classifications	2
Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy	2
Race realism goes both ways	2
Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management	2
Narratives of contingency as historical evidence for philosophical arguments of contingency: pathway decisions in the early development of molecular genetics	2
Kathryn Nave, A drive to survive: the free energy principle and the meaning of life, The MIT Press, 2025.	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2

Rewilding: history, intervention and the quest for immanence	1
Geneticization studies as a theoretical field: an uneven history and conceptual reconstruction	1
Sentience in the history of early plant physiology: Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle’s contribution	1
Empirical vitalism: observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object	1
The Kantian background of Uexküll’s notions of time and space	1
William Bechtel & Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Philosophy of neuroscience, 2022. Cambridge University Press	1
Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies	1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	1
‘Creative environmental engineering’ and the cost of environmental claims: legitimisation of tire artificial reefs by US federal scientists in 1960s–1970s	1
A tale of two cities: emotion and reason in the formation of moral judgement and possible metaethical implications	1
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	1
Measurement under uncertainty: theory-measurement relations in early electrophysiological research	1
Two kinds of evolutionary individuals: the concept of common interest as an evolutionary foundation of dualism on biological individuality	1
Reappraising Claude Bernard’s legacy: an introduction	1
In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990–2000s	1
A Pragmatist-Artifactualist view of experimental model organisms: the case of epigenetic inheritance	1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism	1
Correction to: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024	1
Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?	1
Correction: Regulation in ecological systems: an overview	1
“The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor”: deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments	1
Natural selection no vera causa? Bradley (2022) as a new emanation of an old dichotomy	1
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered	1
From the ports to the hinterland. Plague, bacteriology, and politics in Argentina (1899–1940)	1
Romanticizing evolutionary biology	1
Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner	1
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?	1
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	1
Do corals dream of simulated seas?	1
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	1
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023	1
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	1
Listening to placebos: the contested lessons of antidepressants debates	1
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp	1
Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis: the case of Ah̬h̬$$\bar{a}$$zu	1
Reframing the significance of menstruation: evolutionary insights from an organismal-relational perspective	1
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life	1
The concepts and origins of cell mortality	1
A controversy about chance and the origins of life: thermodynamicist Ilya Prigogine replies to molecular biologist Jacques Monod	0
Attuning to the deep on the opportunities of thinking with art for an ethics and science of the deep sea	0
Games and genes: human diversity meets cytogenetics—Mexico 1968	0
Bernd Rosslenbroich, Properties of life. Toward a theory of organismic biology. Vienna series in theoretical biology, 2023, The MIT Press, 326 Pages, ISBN 9780262546201 (Paperback)	0
Plant cognition after Darwin: historical and epistemological remarks	0
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy	0
A history of childhood schizophrenia and lessons for autism	0
The Bay of Porto Paone: the first “tiny underwater nature reserve” in the Gulf of Naples (1960–1966)	0
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic borders: Transpacific plant and insect migration and the rise of anti-Asian racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022	0
Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine	0
Bruce S. Grant, Observing Evolution: Peppered Moths and the Discovery of Parallel Melanism. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021	0
The risk of biological race	0
Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950	0
Can science help discover the nature of well-being?	0
Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma	0
Andrew S. Reynolds, The third lens: metaphor and the creation of modern cell biology, Chicago: the Chicago University Press, 2018	0
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account	0
The vegetal model: Buffon’s general theory of reproduction	0
Studying asphyxiation in the lab: the role of experimental evidence in cause-of-death inquiry	0
A work in progress: William Bateson’s vibratory theory of repetition of parts	0
The DSM validation method and its decision points: value judgments, metaphysical presuppositions, and validators	0
Christoph Adami, The evolution of biological information: how evolution creates complexity, from viruses to brains. 2024. Princeton: Princeton University Press.	0
Anneli Jefferson, Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?, London: Routledge, 2022	0
William Max Nelson, Enlightenment biopolitics: a history of race, eugenics, and the making of citizens, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024	0
Jacob Stegenga, Care & Cure. An introduction to philosophy of medicine, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288 pp.	0
Tamar Novick, Milk and honey: technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2023	0
Octavio Ocampo, Mexican painter: a metamorphic look at the discourse between the local and the global	0
Arnon Levy & Peter Godfrey-Smith (eds.), The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press, 2020	0
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 2019	0
What teleology (if any) does the Organisational Approach naturalise?	0
On the prospects of basal cognition research becoming fully evolutionary: promising avenues and cautionary notes	0
Correction to: From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	0
History, philosophy, and science education: reflections on genetics 20 years after the human genome project	0
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020	0
Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s own assessments of their “quantitative description” of nerve membrane current	0
The short (and messy) life of the protagon theory of anaesthesia	0
After the trans brain: a critique of the neurobiological accounts of embodied trans* identities	0
Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering historical epistemology: French and anglophone styles in history and philosophy of science, 2024. Springer	0
The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology	0
A strategy to what end? “The strategy of model building in population biology” in its programmatic context	0
The life sciences and the history of analytic philosophy	0

Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality	0
Two scientific perspectives on nerve signal propagation: how incompatible approaches jointly promote progress in explanatory understanding	0
The evolution of the biosphere: Vladimir I. Vernadsky and the concept of common evolution	0
The ontological status of behaviour: lessons from experimental neurosis (1900–1950)	0
Toward a comparative history of medical genetics as a medical specialty in North America	0
Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution	0
Andrew Lakoff, Planning for the wrong pandemic: Covid-19 and the limits of expert knowledge, 2024, Cambridge: Polity Press.	0
Cropping synonymy: varietal standardization in the United States, 1900–1970	0
Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren	0
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena	0
Snait B. Gissis, Lamarckism and the emergence of ‘scientific’ social sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and France, Springer, 2024	0
Hannah Pickard: What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?	0
Five common misconceptions regarding flattening-the-curve of COVID-19	0
Overcoming medical scholasticism in New Spain: experience and indigenous knowledge in Arias de Benavides’ treatment of syphilis	0
Obesogenic vs. fatphobic: an examination of environment in relation to fatness	0
The entanglement of individuation and explanation in the discovery of xenogastrulation	0
Normative implications of postgenomic deterministic narratives: the case study of epigenetic harm	0
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism	0
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	0
Charles Lyell’s theological preformationism: the role of the “Author of nature” in the uniformitarian balance of nature and the evolution of natural species	0
Common sense, scientific images, and the aesthetic mode of knowing	0
Malin Ah-King, The female turn. How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022	0
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes	0
Inventing with bacteriology: controversy over anti-cholera therapeutic serum and tensions between transnational science and local practice in Tokyo and Berlin (1890–1902)	0
Technics and signs: anthropogenesis in Vygotsky, Leroi-Gourhan, and Stiegler	0
Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)	0
A computational case study of Günter Blobel’s idea of protein topogenesis and its influence	0
The failure of drug repurposing for COVID-19 as an effect of excessive hypothesis testing and weak mechanistic evidence	0
A hapless mathematical contribution to biology	0
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism	0
Beyond anthropocentrism in comparative thanatology: on Susana Monsó’s Playing Possum	0
Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms	0
When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction	0
On diversity of human-nature relationships in environmental sciences and its implications for the management of ecological crisis	0
The Chicago school of ecology’s evolutionary superorganism and the clements-wright connection	0
Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene Social Contract. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. xi + 200 pp.	0
Seeing the unseen: problematic narratives and the microbial worlds of the deep-sea	0
Artistic Value as a New Paradigm to Promote Ocean Conservation	0
Hereditarianism: a century of the science of inequality	0
On the relationship between scientific theory and ontology in everything flows	0
The discovery of archaea: from observed anomaly to consequential restructuring of the phylogenetic tree	0
On the nature of evolutionary explanations: a critical appraisal of Walter Bock’s approach with a new revised proposal	0
A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease	0
Ronald Fisher and group selection	0
Design principles and mechanistic explanation	0
Seeking the first phylogenetic method–Edvard A. Vainio (1853–1929) and his troubled endeavour towards a natural lichen classification in the late nineteenth century Finland	0
Finding value-ladenness in evolutionary psychology: Examining Nelson’s arguments	0
Is nationalizing universalizing and/or vice-versa?	0
Towards functional precision medicine? Evidence standards of organoids as patient-specific models	0
Correction to: Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality	0
Nigel Rothfels. Savages and beasts: the birth of the modern zoo (Revised Edition). 2025. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore	0
Social construction of algorithmic success: between good science and political feasibility in marine conservation planning	0
Controlling systems and controlling legacies: Barbara McClintock’s 1961 conversation with two bacterial geneticists	0
Homeorhesis: envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects	0
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge	0
Kant, intoxicated: the aesthetics of drunkenness, between moral duty and “active play”	0
Mario Ageno and the status of biophysics	0
The Apgar score and race: why healthy babies are supposed to be “pink”	0
Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	0
Naomi Oreskes, Why trust science?, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019	0
The problem of isolating and measuring empathy	0
“Addicted” rats? Epistemic challenges in modeling addiction with laboratory animals	0
Life as we don’t know it: plant life in the history and philosophy of science an introduction	0
Brackish knowledge: exploring the material, epistemic, and institutional entanglements of numerical modelling of the Dutch coast	0
Marine constraints as philosophical opportunities: the Krogh principle and the benefits of philosophical engagement with the sea	0
Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity	0
Human genetics in post-WWII Italy: blood, genes and platforms	0
Kostas kampourakis, How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters. Challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics, 2024, Abingdon: CRC press	0
Virtual oceans: how VR technologies mediate oceanic space	0
From aesthetics to anthropology: ideal beauty in Camper’s (1722–1789) theory of race	0
Were Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley’s biological worldview	0
From the harmony to the tension: Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein’s readings of Jakob von Uexküll	0
Constraint-based reasoning in cell biology: on the explanatory role of context	0
States of Resistance: nosocomial and environmental approaches to antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon	0
Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-19	0
Georg Striedter, Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022	0
Technology in scientific practice: how H. J. Muller used the fruit fly to investigate the X-ray machine	0
Correction: Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy	0