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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey64
Book Review44
Book Forum39
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories30
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant28
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?25
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies21
Selection in molecular evolution20
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation20
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study20
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes19
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190018
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories17
Book Forum17
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics17
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle15
Book Review15
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint15
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change15
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy14
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context14
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context13
Editorial Board13
Historicizing gender12
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”12
Book Review12
Book Forum12
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori12
Editorial Board11
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail11
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy11
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics11
The new demarcation problem11
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies10
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century10
Book Forum10
Book Forum10
How to trust a scientist10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning10
Editorial Board10
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 190010
Convergence strategies for theory assessment10
“Population” in biology and statistics9
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy9
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany9
Berkeley on true motion9
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries9
Book Forum9
Book Review9
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research9
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation9
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm9
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism9
Book Review9
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms8
Descartes on certainty in deduction8
Editorial Board8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties8
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation8
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect8
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen8
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity8
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal7
Evidence of effectiveness7
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics7
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion7
Cosmological realism7
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis7
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology7
Book Review7
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–19806
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition6
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview6
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer6
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation6
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project6
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time6
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts6
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 neuroscience6
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities6
Book Review6
How physics flew the philosophers' nest5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction5
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression5
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research5
Book review5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation5
Book Forum5
Book Forum5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction5
Book Review5
Animism and science in European perspective5
Editorial Board5
Eddington teacher of general relativity another tale of two textbooks5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?5
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations5
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage4
Book Forum4
Modus Darwin redux4
Book Review4
Value management and model pluralism in climate science4
Whatever happened to reversion?4
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model4
Book Review4
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?4
Why did the clinic make gender?4
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization4
Book Review4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy4
Editorial Board4
Book Forum4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature4
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science4
Book Forum4
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake4
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction3
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations3
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation3
The metaphysics of fibre bundles3
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening3
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences3
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences3
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?3
Editorial Board3
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics3
Editorial Board3
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics3
Book Review3
Editorial Board3
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory3
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence3
On the relativity of magnitudes3
The delusive benefit of the doubt3
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI3
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19703
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics3
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain3
Book Review3
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research3
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models3
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics2
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel2
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman2
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science2
On Mach on time2
Book Review2
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.2
On gender genealogies2
Book Forum2
The value-ladenness of ancestry2
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory2
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology2
The morphological paradigm in robotics2
Towards noncommutative quantum reality2
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease2
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes2
Circularity, indispensability, and mathematical explanation in science2
John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physics2
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz2
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic2
Extrapolating animal consciousness2
Quantum gravity at low energies2
Hempel on scientific understanding2
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
Functionalising the wavefunction2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
Animal culture: But of which kind?2
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory2
Quantization: History and problems2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics2
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–19402
Editorial Board2
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective2
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries2
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus2
Where organisms meet the environment2
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations2
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community2
Editorial Board2
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry2
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations2
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
The imperative for inclusion: A gender analysis of genetics2
Book Review2
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?2
Book Review2
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen2
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness2
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons2
On the “direct detection” of gravitational waves1
When the “realism of assumptions” mattered: Milton Friedman's critique of the Phillips curve1
R.A. Fisher, indeterminism, and the fundamental theorem of natural selection1
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified1
Newton's “law-first” epistemology and “matter-first” metaphysics1
Editorial Board1
Ontological pluralism and social values1
Editorial Board1
A concrete example of representational licensing: The Mississippi River Basin Model1
Relational quantum entanglement beyond non-separable and contextual relativism1
Development and transfer of automated methods in neuroscience: The DADTA1
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue1
Book Forum1
Ancient Greek laws of nature1
Getting from here to there: The contingency of historical evidence and the value of speculation1
Animal languages in eighteenth-century German philosophy and science1
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts1
Humboldt, Darwin, and romantic resonance in science1
Theoretical concepts as goal-derived concepts1
I ain’t afraid of no ghost1
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models1
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate1
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