{"title":"Community-led institutional innovation: Groundwater sharing, values and relationships in India’s rainfed farming systems","authors":"Rajeswari S. Raina , Helen Longino","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 102-111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding data uncertainty","authors":"Alisa Bokulich , Wendy S. Parker","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scientific data without uncertainty estimates are increasingly seen as incomplete. Recent discussions in the philosophy of data, however, have given little attention to the nature of uncertainty estimation. We begin to redress this gap by, first, discussing the concepts and practices of uncertainty estimation in metrology and showing how they can be adapted for scientific data more broadly; and second, advancing five philosophical theses about uncertainty estimates for data: they are substantive epistemic products; they are fallible; they can be iteratively improved; they should be judged in terms of their adequacy-for-purpose; and these estimates, in turn, are essential for judging data adequacy. We illustrate these five theses using the example of the GISTEMP global temperature dataset. Our discussion introduces a novel adequacy-for-purpose view of uncertainty estimation, addresses a weakness in a recent philosophical account of data, and provides a new perspective on the “safety” versus “precision” debate in metrology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 90-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences","authors":"Alistair M.C. Isaac","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 79-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144489491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pierre Duhem's rejection of special relativity","authors":"Miguel Agustín Aguilar Sandoval","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, I analyze Pierre Duhem's rejection of Albert Einstein's special relativity. Duhem published his most influential contributions to the philosophy of science during the same years that Einstein published the theory we now call special relativity. There are numerous coincidences in the conceptions of both authors about scientific methodology to the point that it has been stated that Einstein's philosophy is supported by Duhem's. It is surprising to discover that Duhem nevertheless rejected special relativity completely. Analyzing this rejection sheds light on aspects of Duhem's philosophy of science that have not been clearly recognized, namely how he conceived of the continuity between common sense concepts, scientific concepts, and measurement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 70-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144471818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"G.G. Simpson's changing attitude towards quantum evolution","authors":"Harrison Payne","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper conducts a study of the published responses to a key process – quantum evolution – in G.G. Simpson's paleontological masterpiece <em>Tempo and Mode in Evolution</em> (1944), with the primary goal of revealing the reasons for Simpson's changed views, as indicated in his next book <em>Major Features of Evolution</em> (1953), on the importance of quantum evolution. I argue that the primary force that drove this change was not pressure from other leading synthesis thinkers like Mayr and Dobzhansky but rather empirical paleontological considerations. I consider the implications this has for the supposed hardening of the synthesis as defended by Stephen Jay Gould and for our understanding of the status of paleontology in the post-synthesis period. I claim that paleontology's secondary status in the immediate post-synthesis period resulted from the internal workings of paleontology and not merely pressures from allied biological disciplines.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 60-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On gender genealogies","authors":"María Jesús Santesmases","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 57-59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144335822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eddington teacher of general relativity another tale of two textbooks","authors":"Florian Laguens","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Arthur S. Eddington (1882–1944) is known as one of the most influential astronomers of the interwar period, and a promoter of Einstein's theory of general relativity. This article focuses on two of his books, namely <em>Space, Time and Gravitation</em> (1920) and <em>The Mathematical Theory of Relativity</em> (1923). The first section claims that Eddington intended both to be textbooks, the role and content of which is detailed as well as Eddington pedagogical views. This then leads to instantiate the porosity and plasticity of the textbook genre, and to draw attention to a less studied aspect of relativistic textbooks, namely their philosophical scope. The closing section comments, for the first time, on Eddington's courses on Einstein's theory, based on archival sources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 47-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144330828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Alice Dreger","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 44-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144288714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The French crisis: Rethinking the phenomenology of quantum mechanics","authors":"Arezoo Islami , Harald A. Wiltsche","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In his book, <em>A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations</em>, Steven French argues that quantum mechanics, understood through the phenomenological lens of London and Bauer, turns physics into a “genuine science”, and thus completes the project Edmund Husserl had started in his last major publication, <em>The Crisis of European Sciences</em>. What makes quantum mechanics a genuine science, according to French, is that it is fully grounded in the “lifeworld and transcendental subjectivity”, just as Husserl dreamt. While we agree with French that London and Bauer’s reading of quantum mechanics is inspired by and thus makes a step towards Husserl’s phenomenology, we argue that a more encompassing phenomenological investigation is still needed if we are to avoid another crisis. More specifically, our claim is that French underestimates the “constitutional history” of the kinds of mathematical idealities that underlie quantum mechanics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 33-43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144272014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The value-ladenness of ancestry","authors":"Yasmin Haddad","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Clustering humans based on their genetic ancestry is a common practice in human genomics. Genetically similar populations can be seen as statistical constructs that are labeled by population descriptors such as “race,” “ethnicity,” and “genetic ancestry.” Recently, there has been a shift towards replacing the descriptor “race” with “genetic ancestry” because the latter is considered more objective. A descriptor is deemed objective if it adequately captures an underlying feature of the biological world, such as genetic similarities or differences between human sub-populations. However, claims of objectivity do not sufficiently explain the rationale for the choice and use of population descriptors such as “ancestry.” This paper proposes an axiological approach to capture the choice and use of population descriptors in human genomics, by showing that the population descriptor “ancestry” is value-laden and that there is a legitimate role for values in the choice and use of population descriptors in genomics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 23-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144272017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}