History & Philosophy of Science Inst.

Research output

Research output per year 1972 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2023

• 7743 Citations
• 34 h-index
• 329 Article
• 227 Chapter
• 107 Book
• 32 Review article
• 100 More
  • 20 Comment/debate
  • 18 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 17 Book/Arts/Article review
  • 13 Editorial
  • 11 Foreword/postscript
  • 5 Conference contribution
  • 5 Special issue
  • 4 Special Issue
  • 3 Letter
  • 2 Paper
  • 1 Digital or Visual Products
  • 1 Exhibition

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  A THIRD WAY TO THE SELECTED EFFECT/CAUSAL ROLE DISTINCTION IN THE GREAT ENCODE DEBATE

  Lamm, E. & Veigl, S. J., 2023, In: Theoretical Biology Forum. 116, 1-2, p. 53-74 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Intergenic DNA 100%
  • intergenic DNA 79%
  • genome 42%
  • Human Genome 40%
  • researchers 32%

• Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s kindergarten. Part 1: the published materials

  Friedman, M. & Muñoz Alvis, J., 2023, In: Paedagogica Historica. 59, 2, p. 191-211 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Kindergarten 100%
  • nineteenth century 75%
  • kindergarten 72%
  • Mathematics 64%
  • gift 55%

• Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s Kindergarten. Part 2: new evidence from unpublished notes

  Friedman, M. & Muñoz Alvis, J., 2023, In: Paedagogica Historica. 59, 2, p. 212-232 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Knowledge Transfer 100%
  • Kindergarten 97%
  • Crystal 80%
  • nineteenth century 73%
  • Conception 72%

• Human major transitions from the perspective of distributed adaptations

  Lamm, E., Finkel, M. & Kolodny, O., 13 Mar 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1872, 20210401.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Irrigation 100%
  • Cultural Evolution 48%
  • Population Density 31%
  • Population 26%
  • collective action 20%

• Human major transitions from the perspective of distributed adaptations

  Lamm, E., Finkel, M. & Kolodny, O., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1872, 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Irrigation 100%
  • Cultural Evolution 48%
  • Population Density 31%
  • Population 26%
  • collective action 20%

• Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue

  Carmel, Y., Shavit, A., Lamm, E. & Szathmáry, E., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1872, 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cultural Evolution 100%
  • Communication 50%
  • Individuality 23%
  • Application 17%
  • social anthropology 14%

• Leibniz and the Stocking Frame: Computation, Weaving and Knitting in the 17th Century

  Friedman, M., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Minds and Machines.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Knitting 100%
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 81%
  • Textiles 76%
  • Looms 68%
  • 17th Century 51%

• On fluidity of the textual transmission in Abraham bar Hiyya’s Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret

  Friedman, M. & Garber, D., Mar 2023, In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 77, 2, p. 123-174 52 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Textual Transmission 100%
  • Fluid Model 87%
  • Fluidity 80%
  • Text 66%
  • Manuscripts 50%

• The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups

  Kish Bar-On, K. & Lamm, E., 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1872, 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • social identification 100%
  • Social Identification 84%
  • Social Norms 83%
  • psychology 76%
  • Psychology 42%

• The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups

  Kish Bar-On, K. & Lamm, E., 13 Mar 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1872, 20210412.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • social identification 100%
  • Social Identification 84%
  • Social Norms 83%
  • psychology 76%
  • Psychology 42%

• The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892

  Gissis, S. B., Mar 2023, In: Journal of the History of Biology. 56, 1, p. 153-190 38 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sociology 100%
  • Metaphor 93%
  • Emile Durkheim 76%
  • Repertoire 61%
  • sociologists 58%

• The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz

  Katzir, S., 2023, In: Annals of Science. 80, 4, p. 337-356 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Hermann Von Helmholtz 100%
  • Mechanics 82%
  • Conservation 78%
  • Energy 30%
  • Lagrange 27%
• 2022

  Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science: Historical-philosophical reflections

  Feldhay, R., 2022, In: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 47, 3-4, p. 360-375 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Early Modern Science 100%
  • Archimedes 92%
  • Early Modernity 23%
  • Linguistic Representation 22%
  • Mathematicians 16%

• Back to Chromatin: ENCODE and the Dynamic Epigenome

  Lamm, E. & Veigl, S. J., Dec 2022, In: Biological Theory. 17, 4, p. 235-242 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • encyclopedia 100%
  • Human Genome Project 95%
  • DNA 63%
  • genome 62%
  • chromatin 59%

• Conventionalism in Early Analytic Philosophy and the Principle of Relativity

  Belkind, O., Apr 2022, In: Erkenntnis. 87, 2, p. 827-852 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Conventionalism 100%
  • Relativity 98%
  • Philosophy 86%
  • Analytic philosophy 83%
  • Interpretation 14%

• Distributed Adaptations: Can a Species Be Adapted While No Single Individual Carries the Adaptation?

  Lamm, E. & Kolodny, O., 14 Feb 2022, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 791104.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • social insect 100%
  • social insects 99%
  • horizontal gene transfer 95%
  • epigenetics 83%
  • microbiome 82%

• How Should We Study Animal Consciousness Scientifically?

  Birch, J., Broom, D. M., Browning, H., Crump, A., Ginsburg, S., Halina, M., Harrison, D., Jablonka, E., Lee, A. Y., Kammerer, F., Klein, C., Lamme, V., Michel, M., Wemelsfelder, F. & Zacks, O., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 29, 3-4, p. 8-28 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Israel y covid-19: ¿cómo se escribirá en el futuro la historia de la epidemia en este país?

  Translated title of the contribution: Israel and covid-19: how will the history of the epidemic in this country be written in the future?Corry, L., 2022, In: Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos. 29, 3, p. 751-761 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Israel 100%
  • Pandemics 95%
  • Public Health 86%
  • Epidemics 77%
  • History 67%

• Joachim Jungius and the Transfer of Knowledge from Weaving to Mathematics in the 17th Century

  Friedman, M., 2022, In: Cahiers François Viète.. III, 13, p. 43-82 40 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Knowledge Transfer 100%
  • Mathematics 62%
  • Mathematization 55%
  • 17th Century 51%
  • Weave 26%

• Learning and the Evolution of Conscious Agents

  Jablonka, E. & Ginsburg, S., Dec 2022, In: Biosemiotics. 15, 3, p. 401-437 37 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Associative Learning 100%
  • consciousness 89%
  • Evolutionary Transitions 77%
  • Conscious 77%
  • Consciousness 69%

• Metaphorical reactions in 1932: from the mathematical ‘crisis of intuition’ to ‘reconstruction in the exact sciences’

  Friedman, M., 2022, In: British Journal for the History of Mathematics. 37, 2, p. 138-161 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Metaphor 100%
  • Crisis 89%
  • intuition 73%
  • Intuition 68%
  • reconstruction 60%

• Pain sentience criteria and their grading

  Jablonka, E. & Ginsburg, S., 2022, In: Animal Sentience. 7, 415.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • prioritization 100%
  • pain 78%
  • learning 68%
  • Learning 54%
  • brain 52%

• Rituals, Music, and the Landscape Metaphor

  Shilton, D. & Jablonka, E., 16 Nov 2022, In: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. 8, 2, p. 129-139 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Metaphor 100%
  • Ceremonial Behavior 97%
  • Music 79%
  • religious behavior 67%
  • metaphor 62%

• The Futures of the Past The Evolution of Imaginative Animals

  Zacks, O., Ginsburg, S. & Jablonka, E., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 29, 3-4, p. 29-61 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • consciousness 100%
  • Consciousness 97%
  • Animals 94%
  • Vertebrates 85%
  • Episodic Memory 81%

• כשמדע פוגש הלכה: דברים לזכרו של פרופ' מאיר שוַרץ

  Translated title of the contribution: In Memory of Professor Meir Schwarzשורץ, י., 2022, In: מכלול. 35, p. 5-7 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2021

  Antisemitism in Doubt: Historical and Methodological Reflections on Contemporary Europe

  Morris Reich, A., 2021, In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie. 73, 2, p. 202-216 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Bacon's inductive method and material form

  Translated title of the contribution: Bacon's inductive method and material formBelkind, O., 2021, In: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. 58, 3, p. 57-68 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Appetite 100%
  • Inclination 91%
  • experiment 77%
  • present 71%
  • history 70%

• BM 76829: A small astronomical fragment with important implications for the Late Babylonian Astronomy and the Astronomical Book of Enoch.

  Fincke, J. C., Horowitz, W. & Ratzon, E., 1 May 2021, In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 75, 3, p. 349-368 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Astronomy 100%
  • Cuneiform 95%
  • Fragment 73%
  • Text 69%
  • Reverse 48%

• Evolutionary transitions in learning and cognition

  Ginsburg, S. & Jablonka, E., 29 Mar 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376, 1821, 20190766.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • cognition 100%
  • learning 77%
  • Cognition 67%
  • Chemical Element 64%
  • Learning 62%

• Francis Galton's regression towards mediocrity and the stability of types

  Krashniak, A. & Lamm, E., Apr 2021, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 86, p. 6-19 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Mediocrity 100%
  • Francis Galton 98%
  • Eugenics 57%
  • Anthropology 45%
  • Genetic Selection 44%

• Law and the Laboratory: The British Vivisection Inspectorate in the 1890s

  Shmuely, S., 2021, In: Law and Social Inquiry. 46, 4, p. 933–963 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • animal 100%
  • Law 65%
  • pain 47%
  • administrative system 31%
  • coproduction 28%

• On Mascheroni's La geometria del compasso at the beginning of the 19th century

  Friedman, M., Nov 2021, In: Historia Mathematica. 57, p. 55-79 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Geometria 100%
  • Geometry 75%
  • Straightedge 20%
  • Backstepping 17%
  • Euclidean Geometry 17%

• On Mathematical Towers of Babel and “Translation” as an Epistemic Category

  Friedman, M., Dec 2021, In: Mathematical Intelligencer. 43, 4, p. 62-73 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• On the Gray Area: Antisemitism and the Lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  Morris-Reich, A. & Trom, D., 14 Apr 2021, In: K..

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Paper, plaster, strings: Exploratory material mathematical models between the 1860s and 1930s

  Friedman, M., 20 Aug 2021, In: Perspectives on Science. 29, 4, p. 436-467 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Plaster 100%
  • 1860s 87%
  • Strings 80%
  • Mathematical Model 72%
  • 1930s 61%

• Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”

  Dietrich, M. R., Harman, O. & Lamm, E., Aug 2021, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 88, p. 237-244 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Complications 100%
  • Linkage 97%
  • Gene 59%
  • Genes 40%
  • Chromosome Inversion 39%

• Sentience in plants a green red herring?

  Ginsburg, S. & Jablonka, E., 2021, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 28, 1-2, p. 17-33 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Viridiplantae 100%
  • Red Herring 83%
  • Sentience 77%
  • herring 68%
  • Animals 53%

• The learning-consciousness connection

  Birch, J., Ginsburg, S. & Jablonka, E., Oct 2021, In: Biology and Philosophy. 36, 5, 49.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Associative Learning 100%
  • consciousness 89%
  • Consciousness 69%
  • learning 61%
  • Learning 49%

• The material reasoning of folding paper

  Friedman, M. & Rittberg, C. J., Nov 2021, In: Synthese. 198, p. 6333-6367 35 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Folding 100%
  • Physical Reality 16%
  • Generality 14%
  • Contemplation 14%
  • Prompts 13%

• The Stranger as a Threshold Figure.

  Morris-Reich, A., 1 Apr 2021, In: The Jewish Quarterly Review. 111, 2, p. 314-317 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Georg Simmel 100%
  • Stranger 94%
  • Jew 84%
  • history 41%
  • Jews 39%

• Wrestling with Spirits: A Medieval Internal Jewish Debate on the Nature of Biblical Angels and its Arabic and Latin Sources

  Schwartz, Y., 2021, In: European Journal of Jewish Studies. 15, 2, p. 201-224 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Latin Sources 100%
  • Angels 74%
  • scholasticism 67%
  • Arab 67%
  • Middle Age 48%

• גאוגרפיה ותאולוגיה: צורת הארץ בספר העירים והרקע המקראי שלה

  Translated title of the contribution: Geography and Theology: The Shape of the Earth in the Bood of Watchers and its Biblical Backroundרצון, א., 2021, In: תעודה. 32-33, 2, p. 873-914 42 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• האתגר האפיגנטי לסינתזה המודרנית

  Translated title of the contribution: The Epigenetic Challenge to the Modern Synthesisיבלונקה, ח. & למב, מ. ג., 2021, In: זמנים: רבעון להיסטוריה. 145, p. 54-69 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• מבוא: לשם מה היסטוריה של הביולוגיה?

  Translated title of the contribution: Introduction: History of Biology - What is it Good for?גיסיס, ס. & קירש, נ., 2021, In: זמנים: רבעון להיסטוריה. 145, p. 36-38 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• על המקום והשפה של האקדמיה בישראל: שיחה

  Translated title of the contribution: On the place and language of academe in Israel: a conversationבן-דור, צ. & חלוזין-דברת, ל., 2021, In: תיאוריה וביקורת. 54, p. 241-264 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Israel 100%
  • Language 42%
  • Stance 25%
  • Philosophy of Science 23%
  • English People 22%

• פרופסור בצלאל בר-כוכבא ומפעלו המדעי

  Translated title of the contribution: Professor Bezalel Br-Kochva: Scholarly Achievementsבינדר, ס. א., רצון, א. & שבטיאל, י., 2021, In: תעודה. ל"ב-ל"ג: חלק א', p. 27-52 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2020

  Alfred Wallace's Baby Orangutan: Game, Pet, Specimen.

  Shmuely, S., 1 Sep 2020, In: Journal of the History of Biology. 53, 3, p. 321-343 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pongo 100%
  • Alfred Russel Wallace 92%
  • Pongo pygmaeus 86%
  • Museums 23%
  • physiologists 22%

• Bossy matrons and forced marriages: Talmudic confrontationalism and its philosophical significance

  Fisch, M., 2020, In: Open Philosophy. 3, 1, p. 335-348 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Theology 100%
  • Forced Marriage 99%
  • Rabbinic Literature 84%
  • Dialogism 83%
  • Late Antiquity 64%

• Consciousness as a mode of being

  Ginsburg, S. & Jablonka, E., 2020, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 27, 9-10, p. 148-162 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • consciousness 100%
  • Consciousness 77%
  • teleology 37%
  • Intuition 35%
  • Aristotle 32%

• Creating a ‘gestalt shift’ in evolutionary science: roles for metaphor in the conceptual landscape of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)

  Herrington, E. & Jablonka, E., 2 Jul 2020, In: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 45, 3, p. 360-379 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Evolutionary Synthesis 100%
  • Gestalt 77%
  • metaphor 59%
  • Evolutionary 52%
  • Modern Synthesis 23%