{"title":"Why did the clinic make gender?","authors":"Beans Velocci","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 21-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255019","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":"2025-08-01","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}
{"title":"Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?","authors":"Antonis Antoniou","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the 1960s and 1970s a series of observations and theoretical developments highlighted the presence of several anomalies which could, in principle, be explained by postulating one of the following two working hypotheses: (i) the existence of dark matter, or (ii) the modification of standard gravitational dynamics in low accelerations. In the years that followed, the dark matter hypothesis as an explanation for dark matter phenomenology attracted far more attention compared to the hypothesis of modified gravity, and the latter is largely regarded today as a non-viable alternative. The present article takes an integrated history and philosophy of science approach in order to identify the reasons why the scientific community mainly pursued the dark matter hypothesis in the years that followed, as opposed to modified gravity. A plausible answer is given in terms of three epistemic criteria for the pursuitworthiness of a hypothesis: (a) its problem-solving potential, (b) its compatibility with established theories and the feasibility of incorporation, and (c) its independent testability. A further comparison between the problem of dark matter and the problem of dark energy is also presented, explaining why in the latter case the situation is different, and modified gravity is still considered a viable possibility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 141-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580588","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":"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":"2025-08-01","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":"Historicizing gender","authors":"Sandra Eder","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144243307","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 descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression","authors":"Santiago Ginnobili","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Demond and Moore showed how Darwin's antislavery ideals made it possible to explain both the origin and the content of many of Darwin's ideas. In this paper, I will attempt to link Darwinian explanations of the origin of the expressions of emotion to such ideals, trying to show that there are deeper connections than the mere defense of monogenism. For Darwin's explanation of the evolutionary origin of blushing implies that all races and their common ancestry have similar mental capacities. Moreover, accepting Darwinian explanations for the origin of expressions provides a contingent image of evolution that implies the dissolution of the explanatory frameworks to which racist and slavery literature appealed. This literature presupposed absolute standards of perfection and beauty that made it possible to order different races in a chain of being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 123-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580586","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":"Questioning local wisdom in Indonesian Indigenous research","authors":"Rangga Kala Mahaswa , Ainu Syaja","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the shifting dynamics of local wisdom (<em>kearifan lokal</em>) as a research category within Indonesian academic discourse, particularly as reflected in journal publications that prominently feature the term in their titles. Although local wisdom is frequently equated with Indigenous knowledge, such conflation remains only partially accurate. While there are points of intersection, notable conceptual divergences persist underscoring the need to examine how local wisdom is understood, invoked, and positioned within the epistemological landscape of Indonesian scholarship. Drawing on a brief survey conducted through <em>Publish or Perish</em> software, the article outlines a provisional typology that captures how local wisdom is articulated across academic contexts. These findings suggest that local wisdom functions less as a stable or singular body of knowledge, and more as a discursive space shaped by a range of intellectual idealisms, situated commitments, and methodological compromises. Researchers engaging with this theme appear to navigate a delicate tension: between preserving the emic, often orally transmitted dimensions of local knowledge, and responding to disciplinary expectations rooted in scientific rationalism. At the same time, there is evidence of a latent ethnonationalist sentiment that further complicates the positioning of local wisdom within broader efforts to decolonize knowledge production in Indonesia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 170-178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144614336","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":"Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction","authors":"Yael Silver , Ayelet Shavit","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interaction with local communities is commonly known as academia's \"third mission,\" yet academia-community rifts are still common, running deeper in marginalized communities. A first step toward bridging the gap is clarification. We review core concepts (e.g., 'outreach,' 'accessibility,' 'engagement'), sort them into two model frameworks – \"Ivory Tower\" and \"Reciprocal” or “Win-Win” – and describe their distinct structures. Both are helpful in relevant contexts. However, their default application hampers certain epistemic values, enacts unjust hierarchical boundaries, and indirectly ties diversity with personal alienation and ethnic divergence. Therefore, another model is suggested: “Communal Academia.” We unfold how this model foregrounds activism, heterogeneity, and pluralistic interaction. Imaginary and real-life examples demonstrate the practice-based advantages of this framework, and the philosophical relevance of a communal approach is reflected upon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 161-169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604854","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":"A minimalist account of agency in physics","authors":"Ali Barzegar , Emilia Margoni , Daniele Oriti","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We adopt an approach to agency aimed at developing a minimalist, scalable and naturalized account of it. After providing a general definition, we explore possible extensions and refinements, domain of applicability, as well as a comparison with other recent accounts, finally tackling potential objections. With respect to what we classify as strong (such as Tononi’s) and weak (such as Rovelli’s) characterizations, our notion of agency situates itself in a middle position — our intent being precisely that of spelling out the advantages of this median account within a variety of contexts, such as the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the debate on the nature of physical laws and bayesianism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49467,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science","volume":"112 ","pages":"Pages 112-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580585","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}