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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Forum61
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey52
Book Forum33
Book Review26
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant23
Social emergence and unpredictability22
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization22
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190022
Selection in molecular evolution22
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.21
Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-190020
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories20
Book Forum18
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle18
Editorial Board17
Putting inference to the best explanation into context16
Book Forum16
Historicizing gender16
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori15
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context14
‘The tensor calculus knows physics better than the physicist’: Bachelard on the role of ‘Covariant Differentiation’ in Relativity theory14
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life12
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure12
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism12
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum11
Editorial Board11
Editorial Board11
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail11
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another10
Laws, meta-laws, and hydrogenic symmetries: Adapting Lange’s account10
Book Forum9
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe9
Book Forum9
How to be a scientific realist: a normative–pragmatist proposal9
Berkeley on true motion8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century8
Seeing Duhem's bon sens through Dewey's logic. Judgment as the central function of knowing8
Convergence strategies for theory assessment8
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality8
How to trust a scientist8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 19008
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer8
Book Review7
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy7
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms7
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)7
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm7
Book Forum7
“Population” in biology and statistics7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement6
Editorial Board6
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries6
Descartes on certainty in deduction6
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research6
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence6
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change6
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation5
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 neuroscience5
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts5
Book Review5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology5
Editorial Board5
Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences5
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics5
Tables turned on table talk5
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen5
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction5
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal5
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’5
Book Forum5
Book Review4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations4
Value-freedom & patient autonomy4
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation4
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks4
Book Forum4
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization4
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation4
Editorial Board4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time4
Psychology and the 20th-century Galileo cult: Kurt Lewin vs. Karl Bühler4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?3
Book Review3
Modus Darwin redux3
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction3
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)3
Revisiting the Einstein-Bergson debate3
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?3
Book Forum3
Editorial Board3
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas3
Book Forum3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research3
Typing Physics: The essential role of typists in intra-scientific communication3
Zygmunt Zawirski: The forgotten forefather of quantum logic3
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression3
Book Forum3
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake3
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term3
A goal-directed approach to disease classification3
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons3
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy3
Editorial Board3
Book Forum3
Book review3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?3
The case of the vanishing wavefunction3
Animism and science in European perspective3
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant3
What does it mean to predict earthquakes?3
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model3
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?2
Book Forum2
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19702
The precision fallacy: On the futility of preference purification2
Interpreting the quantum mechanics of cosmology2
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations2
Book Forum2
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy2
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity2
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction2
On the relativity of magnitudes2
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence2
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences2
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics2
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?2
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI2
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science2
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective2
Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis2
Editorial Board2
The delusive benefit of the doubt2
Editorial Board2
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain2
Sciences versus lettres: A state-sanctioned dualism (France, 1808–2020)2
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics2
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation2
Why did the clinic make gender?2
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature2
The metaphysics of fibre bundles2
Is interdisciplinarity a synonym for the search for alternative views of nature?2
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models2
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism1
Quantum gravity at low energies1
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic1
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry1
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel1
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature1
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes1
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time1
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations1
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz1
Book Forum1
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals1
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science1
Book Review1
From dollars to Joules: Integrating energetics into economic theory1
The morphological paradigm in robotics1
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman1
Editorial Board1
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance1
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.1
Where organisms meet the environment1
Between myth and history: von Neumann on consciousness in quantum mechanics1
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus1
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics1
Buffon's new concept of history1
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science1
Extrapolating animal consciousness1
History and philosophy of science takes form1
The value-ladenness of ancestry1
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history1
On gender genealogies1
What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics1
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature1
Blindspots of empiricism in the discovery of chaos theory1
Evaluating the string-based multiverse research programme from the perspective of the history of science1
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective1
Book Forum1
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons1
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries1
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science1
Functionalising the wavefunction1
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen1
William Herschel's defense of speculative inquiry1
Quantization: History and problems1
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease1
Editorial Board1
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology1
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies1
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics1
Book Forum1
Book Review1
A phenomenological approach to quantum mechanics — The London-Bauer-French interpretation1
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences1
Alice in Taxonomyland: Systematics in mid-twentieth century microbiology1
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory1
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science1
Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being0
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics0
Epistemic expression in the determination of biomolecular structure0
Book Forum0
Reply by the Author0
Of atoms, bricks and cells: A historical critique of historical criticisms of classical cell theory0
Explaining individual differences0
Consistent histories through pragmatist lenses0
Consciousness and the measurement problem0
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework0
Large language models for history, philosophy, and sociology of science: Interpretive uses, methodological challenges, and critical perspectives0
Mary Hesse on the role of the human imagination in the philosophy and practice of science0
Book Review0
Rutherford on inorganic evolution0
Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic approach towards the salutogenic environments0
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance0
Book Forum0
On the uses and abuses of biomarkers in clinical reasoning0
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution0
Newtonian gravitation in Maxwell spacetime0
Book Forum0
Mathematics and society reunited: The social aspects of Brouwer's intuitionism0
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics0
Community-led institutional innovation: Groundwater sharing, values and relationships in India’s rainfed farming systems0
The controversy about interference of photons0
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments0
Gravitational redshift revisited: Inertia, geometry, and charge0
Book Forum0
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar0
Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?0
Putting the “Decision” in Ramsey's “Theories”0
Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences0
Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment in the cosmic controversy0
Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier0
Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?0
The environments of reproductive and birth defects research in the U.S. and West Germany (c. 1955–1975)0
Energetics of the mind and the Parallelismusstreit: the mind-body problem and the assimilation of the law of energy conservation in German psychology, 1850-19150
Proto-externalist analyses of Darwinism in Polish philosophy at turn of 19th century: How disputes of A. Chałupczyński and B. Dybowski anticipated later controversies among historians of biology0
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water0
A French view of London0
Book Forum0
Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958–1968)0
The ‘biocultural approach’ in Latin American ethnobiology0
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