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Histology agnosticism: Infra-molecularizing disease? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jonah Campbell, Alberto Cambrosio, Mark Basik
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Book review Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Jane Maienschein, Kate MacCord
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Beauty in experiment: A qualitative analysis of aesthetic experiences in scientific practice Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Milena Ivanova, Bridget Ritz, Marcela Duque, Brandon Vaidyanathan
A growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of aesthetics in scientific practice, with the experiment recently recognized for its aesthetic value. However, the literature on aesthetics in experimentation grows out of case studies from the history of science, leaving open the question as to how contemporary scientists experience aesthetics in their experimental work. In this paper
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Book Forum Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 John E. Huss
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Book Forum Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Michael R. Dietrich
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On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Nélida Gentile, Susana Lucero
In a series of articles, Mauricio Suárez defends the neutrality of fictionalism with respect to the scientific realism-anti-realism debate. Suárez understands fictionalism from a strictly methodological point of view, linked to the practice of model building in the context of the philosophy of science. He moves away from the type of fictionalism analysed in other areas of philosophy such as metaphysics
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ML interpretability: Simple isn't easy Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Tim Räz
The interpretability of ML models is important, but it is not clear what it amounts to. So far, most philosophers have discussed the lack of interpretability of black-box models such as neural networks, and methods such as explainable AI that aim to make these models more transparent. The goal of this paper is to clarify the nature of interpretability by focussing on the other end of the “interpretability
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On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Gerhard Wagner
In 1956, John G. Kemeny and Paul Oppenheim proposed an approach to intertheoretical reduction as an alternative to that of Ernest Nagel. However, they neglected to provide a clear definition of its basic concept of systematization. After decades of languishing in the shadows, new interest in the KO approach is emerging. Nevertheless, there are still misunderstandings regarding this basic concept. The
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Biological functions are causes, not effects: A critique of selected effects theories. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Miguel García-Valdecasas,Terrence W Deacon
The theory of Selected Effects (SE) is currently the most widely accepted etiological account of function in biology. It argues that the function of any trait is the effect that past traits of that type produced that contributed to its current existence. Its proper or etiological function is whatever effect was favoured by natural selection irrespective of the trait's current effects. By defining function
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Idealisations and the aims of polygenic scores. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Davide Serpico
Research in pharmacogenomics and precision medicine has recently introduced the concept of Polygenic Scores (PGSs), namely, indexes that aggregate the effects that many genetic variants are predicted to have on individual disease risk. The popularity of PGSs is increasing rapidly, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to the idealisations they make about phenotypic development. Indeed, PGSs
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On the 'cognitive map debate' in insect navigation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Rüdiger Wehner,Thierry Hoinville,Holk Cruse
In a historical account recently published in this journal Dhein argues that the current debate whether insects like bees and ants use cognitive maps (centralized map hypothesis) or other means of navigation (decentralized network hypothesis) largely reflects the classical debate between American experimental psychologists à la Tolman and German ethologists à la Lorenz, respectively. In this dichotomy
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Putting the "Decision" in Ramsey's "Theories". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Bruce Rushing
Frank Ramsey's philosophy of science is considered abstruse due to the incompleteness and difficulty of his paper "Theories". This has not prevented various authors from arguing that Ramsey is committed to meaning holism for scientific theories, and that his philosophy of science is anti-realist but anti-reductionist. However, it is unclear exactly how meaning holism works for Ramsey, and how he can
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Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Aja Watkins
Using past episodes of climate change as a source of evidence to inform our projections about contemporary climate change requires establishing the extent to which episodes in the deep past are analogous to the current crisis. However, many scientists claim that contemporary rates of climate change (e.g., rates of carbon emissions or temperature change) are unprecedented, including compared to episodes
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Approaching diagnostic messiness through spiderweb strategies: Connecting epistemic practices in the clinic and the laboratory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Helene Scott-Fordsmand,Karin Tybjerg
Scientific and medical practice both relate to and differ from each other, as do discussions of how to handle decisions under uncertainty in the laboratory and clinic respectively. While studies of science have pointed out that scientific practice is more complex and messier than dominant conceptions suggest, medical practice has looked to the rigour of scientific and statistical methods to address
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The conservation of nervous energy: Neurophysiology and energy conservation in the work of Sigmund Exner and Josef Breuer. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Leonardo Niro
This article explores the assimilation of the law of energy conservation in the psychological sciences of the late nineteenth century by comparing two similar neurophysiological projects conceived in largely the same social milieu and at the same time - namely, Sigmund Exner's Project for a physiological explanation of psychic phenomena (1894) and Josef Breuer's "Theoretical" chapter for Studies on
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Newton's "law-first" epistemology and "matter-first" metaphysics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Caleb Hazelwood
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Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Marcel Boumans,Mary S Morgan
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The 'biocultural approach' in Latin American ethnobiology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tania I González-Rivadeneira
Contemporary ethnobiologists employ the biocultural approach to different contexts and countries, and they seek to describe the relationship between biological and cultural diversity. For Latin American researchers, this approach is particularly interesting from a critical standpoint. We offer a review of the concept of "biocultural", departing from Mexican ethnobiologist contributions. Later, we analyze
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Epistemic expression in the determination of biomolecular structure. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Agnes Bolinska
Scientific research is constrained by limited resources, so it is imperative that it be conducted efficiently. This paper introduces the notion of epistemic expression, a kind of representation that expedites the solution of research problems. Epistemic expressions are representations that (i) contain information in a way that enables more reliable information to place the most stringent constraints
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Finite-size scaling theory: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical phenomena. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Vincent Ardourel,Sorin Bangu
The finite-size scaling (FSS) theory is a relatively new and important attempt to study critical phenomena; this paper aims to contribute to clarifying the philosophical significance of this theory. We maintain that, contrary to initial appearances and to some recent claims in the literature, the FSS theory cannot arbitrate the debate between the reductionists and anti-reductionists about phase transitions
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Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Nabeel Hamid
Dilthey frequently recognizes anthropology as a foundational science of human nature and as a cornerstone in the system of the human sciences. While much has been written about Dilthey's "philosophical anthropology," relatively little attention has been paid to his views on the emerging empirical science of anthropology. This paper examines Dilthey's relation to the new discipline by focusing on his
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Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Meir Hemmo,Orly Shenker
According to contemporary computational neuroscience the mental is associated with computations implemented in the brain. We analyze in physical terms based on recent results in the foundations of statistical mechanics two well-known (independent) problems that arise for this approach: the problem of multiple-computations and the problem of multiple-realization. We show that within the computational
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The delusive benefit of the doubt. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Tomasz Wysocki
Science promises benefits, some true and some illusory. Consider a scientific agnostic who thinks that to reap the true benefits of a scientific theory he does not have to believe in its theoretical posits. Instead, it is enough if he believes that the theory successfully predicts the behavior of the observables, as ultimately only such predictions matter. Say, however, that given the results of her
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Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Christopher P Noble
This paper argues that Leibniz's use of the concept of "automaton" to characterize the nature of souls and bodies of living beings constitutes a systematic critique of Descartes' earlier use of automata. Whereas Descartes conceived non-human animals in terms of mechanical automata, he also denied that the human rational soul can be modeled on the nature of an automaton. In contrast, Leibniz understood
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Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Karl Heuer,Deniz Sarikaya
In this paper we show how simple text-driven variations of given statements in mathematics can lead to interesting new problems and push forward a whole theory around simple initial questions. We exemplify this in two cases. Case 1 deals with problem-posing activities suitable for pupils and case 2 is a rational reconstruction of the organisation of mathematical knowledge within problems of graph colorings
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Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Mason Majszak,Julie Jebeile
Like any science marked by high uncertainty, climate science is characterized by a widespread use of expert judgment. In this paper, we first show that, in climate science, expert judgment is used to overcome uncertainty, thus playing a crucial role in the domain and even at times supplanting models. One is left to wonder to what extent it is legitimate to assign expert judgment such a status as an
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Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Lukas Geiszler
With robots being of far-ranging public and academic interest, attempts are made to set these into relation to earlier self-moving machines. Automata from European Enlightenment, especially in the 18th century, are such machines being referenced. The debate revolves around the question whether the design and the purpose of the construction of these automata can be viewed as antedating epistemological
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Artificial lives, analogies and symbolic thought: an anthropological insight on robots and AI. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Joffrey Becker
The aim of this article is to explore the conception of artificial life forms and the interactions we have with them by paying a particular attention to the analogies that characterize them and the mental processes they give rise to. The article adopts a crossed perspective, focusing on the representations conveyed by artificial life but also on the way we deal with the presence of so-called intelligent
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Confirmation, or pursuit-worthiness? Lessons from J. J. Sakurai's 1960 theory of the strong force for the debate on non-empirical physics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Pablo Ruiz de Olano
Over the last few decades, our theories of fundamental physics have become increasingly detached from empirical data. Recently, Richard Dawid has argued that the progressive separation of theory from experiment is concomitant with a number of changes in the methodology of the discipline. More precisely, Dawid has argued that the new methods of fundamental physics amount to a form of non-empirical confirmation
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Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Yoshinari Yoshida
Biologists often study particular biological systems as models of a phenomenon of interest even if they already know that the phenomenon is produced by diverse mechanisms and hence none of those systems alone can sufficiently represent it. To understand this modeling practice, the present paper provides an account of how multiple model systems can be used to study a phenomenon that is produced by diverse
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Were the scale of excitability a circle: Tracing the roots of the disease theory of alcoholism through Brunonian stimulus dependence. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Matthew Perkins-McVey
The disease theory of alcoholism, and by extension, of addiction, forms the theoretical basis of an expansive scientific industry, one which musters tremendous resources in the service of research, rehab clinics, and government programs. Revisiting the early work on the disease theory of alcoholism, this paper analyzes the apperance of the disease theory of alcoholism in the eighteenth/nineteenth century
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Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Mark Fedyk
There is no settled definition of nursing science that describes how this field of scientific research is unique. This paper attempts to correct this problem. It uses a combination of historical analysis and abductive argument to support the thesis that nursing science is a sui generis social science that studies how to reconcile clinical ideals or norms that are applicable to practice in nursing with
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Unification and explanation from a causal perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Alexander Gebharter,Christian J Feldbacher-Escamilla
We discuss two influential views of unification: mutual information unification (MIU) and common origin unification (COU). We propose a simple probabilistic measure for COU and compare it with Myrvold's (2003, 2017) probabilistic measure for MIU. We then explore how well these two measures perform in simple causal settings. After highlighting several deficiencies, we propose causal constraints for
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Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Lorenzo Spagnesi
Scientific models typically contain idealizations, or assumptions that are known not to be true. Philosophers have long questioned the nature of idealizations: Are they heuristic tools that will be abandoned? Or rather fictional representations of reality? And how can we reconcile them with realism about knowledge of nature? Immanuel Kant developed an account of scientific investigation that can inspire
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The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Kelle Dhein
Though well established in mammals, the cognitive map hypothesis has engendered a decades-long, ongoing debate in insect navigation studies involving many of the field's most prominent researchers. In this paper, I situate the debate within the broader context of 20th century animal behavior research and argue that the debate persists because competing research groups are guided by different constellations
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Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Milutin Stojanovic
Urgent and complex sustainability problems are redefining the conditions for success of science and instigating novel methodologies and new roles of values in science. At the same time, sustainability research, mostly under the umbrella of sustainability science, is abundant with dubious methods and dubious aims of research, contributing to the already widespread crisis of the quality control mechanisms
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On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Nora Hangel,Christopher ChoGlueck
While the pursuitworthiness of philosophical ideas has changed over time, philosophical practice and methodology have not kept pace. The worthiness of a philosophical pursuit includes not only the ideas and objectives one pursues but also the methods with which one pursues them. In this paper, we articulate how empirical approaches benefit philosophy of science, particularly advocating for the use
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Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Adam Koberinski,Doreen Fraser
The effective field theory (EFT) perspective on particle physics has yielded insight into the Standard Model. This paper investigates the epistemic consequences of the use of different variants of renormalization group (RG) methods as part of the EFT perspective on particle physics. RG methods are a family of formal techniques. While the semi-group variant of the RG has played a prominent role in condensed
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Disregarding evidence: Reasonable options for Newton and Rutherford? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Peter Achinstein
To determine whether, and to what extent, you are justified in believing a proposition you need to consider all the relevant evidence available to you, not just some part of it. So says the "Requirement of Total Evidence" (RTE). If you violate this you are unreasonable. Are you? Two scientific cases will be presented to defend the answer: Not necessarily. The first involves Newton's argument for universal
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Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Emily C Parke,Anya Plutynski
Microbial factors have been implicated in cancer risk, disease progression, treatment and prevention. The key word, however, is "implicated." Our aim in this paper is to map out some of the tensions between competing methods, goals, and standards of evidence in cancer research with respect to the causal role of microbial factors. We discuss an array of pragmatic and epistemic trade-offs in this research
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Describing model relations: The case of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) family in financial economics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Melissa Vergara-Fernández,Conrad Heilmann,Marta Szymanowska
The description of how individual models in families of models are related to each other is crucial for the general philosophical understanding of model-based scientific practice. We focus on the Capital Asset Pricing Models (CAPM) family, a cornerstone in financial economics, to provide a descriptive analysis of model relations within a family. We introduce the concepts of theoretical and empirical
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Changing articulations of relevance in soil science: Diversity and (potential) synergy of epistemic commitments in a scientific discipline. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Lisa Sigl,Ruth Falkenberg,Maximilian Fochler
This paper traces how the self-understanding of soil science has changed in relation to ideas of societal relevance and academic legitimacy. While soil science was established as an academic discipline with strong links to agriculture, this link was largely lost around 1980. This led to a perceived crisis of the discipline, which has been followed by a long process of redefining its self-understanding
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Relational quantum entanglement beyond non-separable and contextual relativism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Christian de Ronde,César Massri
In this paper we address the relativist-perspectival nature of the orthodox definition of quantum entanglement in terms of preferred factorizations. We also consider this aspect within the generalized definition of entanglement proposed by Barnum et al. (Barnum et al., 2003, 2004) in terms of preferred observables. More specifically, we will discuss the non-separable relativism implied by the orthodox
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Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Kabir S Bakshi
Proponents of a recent interpretation of Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments argue that for Mach thought experiments must be continuous with and return to cached experiences. These criteria, the proponents hold, explain the tension which has been noted in Mach's views on thought experiments: on the one hand, Mach reprimands Newton in "extending principles beyond the boundaries of experience"
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New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Davide Serpico,Kate E Lynch,Theodore M Porter
The aim of this virtual special issue is to bring together philosophical and historical perspectives to address long-standing issues in the interpretation, utility, and impacts of quantitative genetics methods and findings. Methodological approaches and the underlying scientific understanding of genetics and heredity have transformed since the field's inception. These advances have brought with them
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The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Marco Tamborini
In recent years, bio-inspired robots have shaped numerous domains of technical and scientific production. Bio-inspired robots can now be found in all areas of industry, medicine, architecture, and even culture. Despite the wealth of historiographic and philosophical studies published on this topic, a philosophical investigation of the mimetic principle used in bio-robotics is still missing. In this
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Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Grant Fisher
This paper aims to contribute to the study of practical pursuit-worthiness in science by engaging with a case in therapeutic stem cell biology. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research emerged from research in developmental biology and the molecular biology of cell fate conversion. It took on practical significance when proposed as an alternative to therapeutic stem cell research that used human
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Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Stefano Furlan
This paper follows the story of how John A. Wheeler became the enthusiastic baptizer and popularizer of black holes, after he overcame his own initial resistance and protracted skepticism about earlier results. However, the present work is not only historical, since its aim is to suggest as well that the notion of pursuitworthiness can but benefit from a close confrontation with actual heuristic paths
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Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Patrick M Duerr,Yemima Ben-Menahem
The present paper revisits conventionalism about the geometry of classical and relativistic spacetimes. By means of critically examining a recent evaluation of conventionalism, we clarify key themes of, and rectify common misunderstandings about, conventionalism. Reichenbach's variant is demarcated from conventionalism simpliciter, associated primarily with Poincaré. We carefully outline the latter's
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The case of the vanishing wavefunction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Niranjana Warrier
Spacetime singularities are often held to be pathologies which need to be resolved, and researchers working on the foundations of physics often pin their hopes on the elusive quantum theory of gravity to offer a way to resolve singularities. What is less agreed upon is what such a resolution would amount to: what criteria would a theory of quantum gravity have to fulfill to resolve spacetime singularities
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Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Joseph Bentley
Otto Neurath's role in the so-called protocol sentence debates is typically framed as primarily an epistemologically radical rejection of empiricist foundationalism. However, less well recognized is that from this debate, Neurath emerges with a conception of protocol statements that functions as a radical reconceptualization of evidence. Whilst recognizably still empiricist, Neurath's conception of
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Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Marcin Krasnodębski
With the rise of environmental awareness among chemists, more and more programmatic frameworks try to guide chemists to conduct research in an ethical manner. While green chemistry remains the most popular and influential of these concepts, not all scholars choose to embrace it. One world chemistry and circular chemistry are examples of this new trend. They constitute an attempt to profoundly reshape
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Idealization, representation, and explanation in the sciences. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Melissa Jacquart,Elay Shech,Martin Zach
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Where organisms meet the environment: Introduction to the special issue 'What counts as environment in biology and medicine: Historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Jan Baedke,Tatjana Buklijas
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Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Yafeng Wang
Engineering failure investigations seek to reconstruct the actual causes of major engineering failures. The investigators need to establish the existence of certain past events and the actual causal relationships that these events bear to the failures in question. In this paper, I examine one method for reconstructing the actual causes of failure events, which I call "feature dependence". The basic
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'History will be kind to me': An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Yafeng Shan,Ehud Lamm,Oren Harman
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Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835-1900. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 John Stenhouse
The first copies of the Origin of Species arrived in Britain's southernmost colony during the early 1860s, just as the government went to war against Māori in Taranaki province. The longest and most consequential phase of the New Zealand wars saw several North Island tribes battle British and colonial troops and their Māori allies until 1872. Historians Adrian Desmond and James R. Moore argued in Darwin's
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Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin's draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley's anti-mathematical philosophy. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Clare Marie Moriarty
Following the publication of Berkeley's caustic critique of calculus, The Analyst (1734), numerous figures in the scientific world responded to the text's allegations of rigour violations and a culture of mathematics-laced heresy. Maclaurin's Treatise on Fluxions (1742) shaped the reception of Berkeley's mathematical views. The published version of the Treatise focused on securing the foundations of
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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. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer,Natalia Hirmas-Montecinos,Nicolás Trujillo Osorio
O'Malley et al. (2009) and Haufe (2013) suggest that the philosophical idea of science as hypothesis testing generates a pernicious bias towards hypothesis-driven research and against exploratory research in the review process of research proposals and the allocation of resources. This paper addresses a conceptual objection to the argument by O'Malley et al. (2009) and Haufe (2013). We argue that the