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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey56
Book Review41
Book Forum36
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant27
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?26
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies25
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation24
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190020
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study19
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes19
Book Forum18
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics18
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization17
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories17
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories15
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint15
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle14
Selection in molecular evolution14
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function13
Book Review13
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context12
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy12
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”12
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori12
Book Forum12
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context12
Book Review11
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability11
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author11
Animal deception and the content of signals10
The new demarcation problem10
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies10
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics10
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science10
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum10
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail10
Editorial Board10
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy10
Studies A, B, and C merger10
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century9
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism9
Editorial Board9
Book Forum9
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe9
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany9
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning9
Editorial Board9
Book Review9
Convergence strategies for theory assessment9
Book Forum9
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms8
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm8
How to trust a scientist8
Book Review8
“Population” in biology and statistics8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 19008
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation8
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries8
Berkeley on true motion8
Book Forum7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology7
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity7
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties7
Descartes on certainty in deduction7
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis7
Editorial Board7
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect7
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science7
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement7
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–19806
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion6
Evidence of effectiveness6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project6
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science6
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?6
Book Review6
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition6
Cosmological realism6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’6
‘Species’ without species6
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal6
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics6
Book Review6
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
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations5
Book Review5
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under5
Animism and science in European perspective5
Book Forum5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer5
Book Review5
Book Forum5
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?5
How physics flew the philosophers' nest5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation5
Editorial Board5
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?4
Book Forum4
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas4
What could mathematics be for it to function in distinctively mathematical scientific explanations?4
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective4
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy4
Modus Darwin redux4
Book Forum4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?4
Book Review4
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization4
Book Review4
Editorial Board4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model4
Book review4
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research4
Book Review4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature4
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit4
Value management and model pluralism in climate science4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked4
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations3
The five problems of irreversibility3
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy3
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics3
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory3
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology3
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening3
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research3
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory3
On the relativity of magnitudes3
Editorial Board3
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach3
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19703
Book Forum3
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics3
Book Review3
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models3
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?3
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences3
Editorial Board3
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation3
The delusive benefit of the doubt3
Editorial Board3
The metaphysics of fibre bundles3
Whatever happened to reversion?3
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction3
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science3
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain3
The morphological paradigm in robotics3
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence3
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?3
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics3
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease2
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.2
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science2
Functionalising the wavefunction2
Editorial Board2
Book Forum2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples2
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations2
Quantum gravity at low energies2
Book Review2
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
Editorial Board2
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory2
Circularity, indispensability, and mathematical explanation in science2
Hempel on scientific understanding2
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry2
Extrapolating animal consciousness2
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science2
Quantization: History and problems2
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman2
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz2
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities2
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes2
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
On Mach on time2
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness2
Towards noncommutative quantum reality2
Animal culture: But of which kind?2
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time2
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective2
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
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen2
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic2
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus2
John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physics2
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel2
The imperative for inclusion: A gender analysis of genetics2
Book Review2
Interpreting the Wigner–Eckart Theorem2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–19402
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
Book Review2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons2
Where organisms meet the environment2
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration: Lessons from the Chicago Wilderness1
“Oh, how beautiful life is and how terrible death is!” (Th. Dobzhansky and religion)1
Humboldt, Darwin, and romantic resonance in science1
Ancient Greek laws of nature1
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue1
Newton's “law-first” epistemology and “matter-first” metaphysics1
Editorial Board1
Predicting and explaining with machine learning models: Social science as a touchstone1
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts1
R.A. Fisher, indeterminism, and the fundamental theorem of natural selection1
Design principles as minimal models1
I ain’t afraid of no ghost1
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models1
Expanding the notion of mechanism to further understanding of biopsychosocial disorders? Depression and medically-unexplained pain as cases in point1
Book Review1
Editorial Board1
Theoretical concepts as goal-derived concepts1
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified1
Development and transfer of automated methods in neuroscience: The DADTA1
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate1
Getting from here to there: The contingency of historical evidence and the value of speculation1
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