Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Article	Citations
Book Forum	53
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	49
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	33
Book Forum	26
Book Review	23
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	22
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	22
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	21
Social emergence and unpredictability	21
Selection in molecular evolution	20
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	19
Book Forum	18
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	18
Editorial Board	17
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	16
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	16
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	16
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	16
Historicizing gender	15
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	14
Book Forum	14
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	12
Editorial Board	12
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another	12

The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	11
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague	11
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism	11
Editorial Board	11
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	10
Book Forum	10
Book Forum	9
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	9
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	9
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	9
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	8
How to trust a scientist	8
Book Review	8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	8
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)	8
Book Forum	8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	8
Berkeley on true motion	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	7
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	7
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	7
“Population” in biology and statistics	7
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	7
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	7
Editorial Board	6
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	6
Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences	6
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	6
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	6
Descartes on certainty in deduction	6
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction	6
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	6
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	5
Book Forum	5
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 neuroscience	5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	5
Editorial Board	5
Tables turned on table talk	5
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	5
Editorial Board	5
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	5
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	5
Book Review	5
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	4

Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	4
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	4
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	4
Book Review	4
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	4
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	4
Animism and science in European perspective	4
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	4
Book Forum	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4
Value-freedom & patient autonomy	4
Book Forum	4
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?	3
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	3
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	3
Book review	3
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	3
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy	3
Why did the clinic make gender?	3
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	3
Modus Darwin redux	3
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?	3
Book Forum	3
Book Review	3
Book Forum	3
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	3
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	3
A goal-directed approach to disease classification	3
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	3
Book Forum	3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	3
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	3
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	3
Book Forum	3
Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis	3
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology	2
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?	2
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?	2
Is interdisciplinarity a synonym for the search for alternative views of nature?	2
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations	2
Interpreting the quantum mechanics of cosmology	2
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI	2
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics	2
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction	2
On gender genealogies	2
Evaluating the string-based multiverse research programme from the perspective of the history of science	2
The morphological paradigm in robotics	2
On the relativity of magnitudes	2
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence	2
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation	2
The delusive benefit of the doubt	2
Sciences versus lettres: A state-sanctioned dualism (France, 1808–2020)	2
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science	2
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity	2
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?	2
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain	2
Book Review	2
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences	2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism	2
Editorial Board	2
Book Forum	2
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics	2
Editorial Board	2
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–1970	2
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective	2
The metaphysics of fibre bundles	2
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences	2
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models	2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature	2
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries	1
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature	1
Book Forum	1
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman	1
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes	1
From dollars to Joules: Integrating energetics into economic theory	1
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations	1

The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic	1
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel	1
Quantum gravity at low energies	1
Editorial Board	1
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate	1
Editorial Board	1
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history	1
Book Review	1
A minimalist account of agency in physics	1
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education	1
Functionalising the wavefunction	1
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics	1
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance	1
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory	1
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons	1
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease	1
Quantization: History and problems	1
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals	1
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen	1
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms	1
Extrapolating animal consciousness	1
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies	1
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz	1
Book Forum	1
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry	1
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science	1
Blindspots of empiricism in the discovery of chaos theory	1
Between myth and history: von Neumann on consciousness in quantum mechanics	1
William Herschel's defense of speculative inquiry	1
Where organisms meet the environment	1
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.	1
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time	1
What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics	1
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science	1
Buffon's new concept of history	1
The value-ladenness of ancestry	1
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science	1
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus	1
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation	1
History and philosophy of science takes form	1
Book Forum	1
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics	1
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories	1
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science	1
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective	1
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution	0
Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being	0
A French view of London	0
Book Forum	0
Consistent histories through pragmatist lenses	0
Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development	0
Book Forum	0
Consciousness and the measurement problem	0
Book Review	0
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water	0
The environments of reproductive and birth defects research in the U.S. and West Germany (c. 1955–1975)	0
Kant on the many uses of reason in the sciences: A neglected topic	0
The ‘biocultural approach’ in Latin American ethnobiology	0
Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958–1968)	0
Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?	0
Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment in the cosmic controversy	0
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments	0
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar	0
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance	0
Book Forum	0
Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences	0
Some reflections on Robert Batterman's a middle way	0
Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition	0
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 biology	0
Gravitational redshift revisited: Inertia, geometry, and charge	0
Community-led institutional innovation: Groundwater sharing, values and relationships in India’s rainfed farming systems	0
Newtonian gravitation in Maxwell spacetime	0
Explaining individual differences	0
Disregarding evidence: Reasonable options for Newton and Rutherford?	0
Explanatory circles	0
Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic approach towards the salutogenic environments	0
Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?	0
Book Review	0
Reply by the Author	0
Mary Hesse on the role of the human imagination in the philosophy and practice of science	0
Putting the “Decision” in Ramsey's “Theories”	0
The controversy about interference of photons	0
Book Forum	0
Mathematics and society reunited: The social aspects of Brouwer's intuitionism	0
Kaila's interpretation of Einstein-Minkowski invariance theory	0
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework	0
Are ‘phase IV’ trials exploratory or confirmatory experiments?	0
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics	0
Charles Darwin as a statistical thinker	0
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics	0
Book Forum	0
Pierre Duhem's rejection of special relativity	0
Book Forum	0
Of atoms, bricks and cells: A historical critique of historical criticisms of classical cell theory	0
Book Forum	0