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Prof. Dr. Axel Gelfert - Publikationen | Publications
- Im Erscheinen | forthcoming
- Neu | Most recent publications
- I. Monographien | Monographs
- II. Aufsätze in wiss. Zeitschriften | Journal articles
- III. Buchbeiträge | Book chapters
- IV. Herausgeberschaften | Edited journal issues
- V. Rezensionen | Reviews
Im Erscheinen | forthcoming
| “Fake News: There's no App for Truthfulness”, in Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings, hg. von J. Tsou & G. Robson, New York: Routledge (forthcoming) |
| “Gesellschaftliche Erwartungen an 'Big Data' in der Wissenschaft: Zur Mär vom 'Ende der Theorie'”, in Kalibrierung der Wissenschaft: Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis, hg. von N. Mößner & K. Erlach, Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag (forthcoming) |
| “Der Newsfeed als algorithmischer Palimpsest” / “The Newsfeed as an Algorithmic Palimpsest”, in Textfetzen, hg. von E. Wessel, Berlin: Kadmos-Verlag (forthcoming) |
| “Thinking With Notations: Epistemic Actions and Epistemic Activities in Mathematical Practice”, in Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century, hg. von M. Friedman & K. Krauthausen, Wien: Birkhäuser (forthcoming) |
| “The Epistemology of Testimony”, in The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, hg. von J. Lackey & A. McGlynn, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming) |
Neu | Most recent publications
| “Between Pedantry and Populism: A Kantian Perspective on the Assault on Scientific Expertise”, Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 10 (1) 2022, 113-122. |
| “Fake News, False Beliefs, and the Fallible Art of Knowledge Maintenance”, in The Epistemology of Fake News, hg. von A. Flowerree, S. Bernecker, Th. Grundmann, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021, 310-333. |
| “Von Fakes und Frauds: Können wissenschaftliche Hoaxes ein legitimes Erkenntnisinstrument sein?”, in Wahrheit und Fake, hg. von P. Klimczak & Th. Zoglauer, Heidelberg: Springer 2021, 27-44. |
| “What is Fake News?”, in The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, hg. von M. Hannon & J. de Ridder, New York: Routledge 2021, 171-180. |
I. Monographien | Monographs
II. Aufsätze in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften | Articles in journals
| “The Exploratory Role of Idealizations and Limiting Cases in Models”, Studia Metodologiczne, No. 39, 2019, 195-232 (zusammen mit Elay Shech). |
| “Cultures of Modelling: Rudolf Peierls on ‘Model-Making in Physics’”, Studia Metodologiczne, No. 39, 2019, 49-71. |
| “Beyond the ‘Null Setting’: The Method of Cases in the Epistemology of Testimony”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2019, 60-76. |
| “Fake News: A Definition”, Informal Logic, Vol. 38, No.1, 2018, 84–117. |
| “Inner Speech, Natural Language, and the Modularity of the Mind”, Kairos, Vol. 14, 2015, 7-29 |
| “Symbol Systems as Collective Representational Resources: Mary Hesse, Nelson Goodman, and the Problem of Scientific Representation”, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 4 (6) 2015, 52-61 |
| “The ‘Extendedness’ of Scientific Evidence”, Philosophical Issues (Supplement to Noûs), Vol. 24 (1) 2014, 253-281. (zusammen mit Eric Kerr) |
| “Applicability, Indispensability, and Underdetermination: Puzzling over Wigner's ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics’”, Science & Education, Vol. 23 (5) 2014, 997-1009 |
| “Disattendability, Civil Inattention, and the Epistemology of Privacy”, Philosophical Analysis, Vol. 31, 2014, 151-181 |
| “Observation, Inference, and Imagination: Elements of Edgar Allan Poe's Philosophy of Science”, Science & Education, Vol. 23 (3) 2014, 589-607 |
| “Synthetic Biology Between Technoscience and Thing Knowledge”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 44 (2) 2013, 141-149 |
| “Strategies of Model-Building in Condensed Matter Physics: Trade-Offs as a Demarcation Criterion Between Physics and Biology?” Synthese Vol. 190 (2) 2013, 252-273 |
| “Before Biopolis: Representations of the Biotechnology Discourse in Singapore”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society Vol. 7 (1) 2013, 103-123 |
| “Climate Change, Epistemic Dissonance, and the Ethics of Uncertainty”, Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series), Vol. 3 (1) 2013, 167-208 |
| Hume on Curiosity”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 21 (4) 2013, 711-732 |
| “Coverage-Reliability, Epistemic Dependence, and the Problem of Rumor-Based Belief”, Philosophia Vol. 41 (3) 2013, 763-786 |
| “Art History, the Problem of Style, and Arnold Hauser’s Contribution to the History and Sociology of Knowledge”, Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 62 (1-2) 2012, 121-142 |
| “Nanotechnology as Ideology: Towards a Critical Theory of ‘Converging Technologies’”, Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 17 (1) 2012, 143-164 |
| “Expertise, Argumentation, and the End of Inquiry”, Argumentation Vol. 25 (3) 2011, 297-312 |
| “Mathematical Formalisms in Scientific Practice: From Denotation to Model-Based Representation”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42 (2) 2011, 272-286 |
| “Who is an Epistemic Peer?”, Logos & Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol. 2 (4) 2011, 507-514 |
| “Steps to an Ecology of Knowledge: Continuity and Change in the Genealogy of Knowledge”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 8 (1) 2011, 67-82 |
| “Reconsidering the Role of Inference to the Best Explanation in the Epistemology of Testimony”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 41 (4) 2010, 386-396 |
| “Hume on Testimony Revisited”, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy Vol. 13 (2010) 60-75 |
| “Kant and the Enlightenment’s Contribution to Social Epistemology”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 7 (1) 2010, 79-99 |
| “Indefensible Middle Ground for Local Reductionism about Testimony”, Ratio, Vol. 22 (2) 2009, 170-190 |
| “Rigorous Results, Cross-Model Justification, and the Transfer of Empirical Warrant”, Synthese, Vol. 169 (3) 2009, 497-519 |
| “Kant on Testimony”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 14 (4) 2006, 627-652 |
| “Mathematical Rigor in Physics: Putting Exact Results in Their Place”, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 72 (5) 2005, 723-738 |
| “Manipulative Success and the Unreal”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 17 (3) 2003, 245-263 |
| “Perception and Prejudice. Uncertainty and the Investment in Gender”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37 (43), 4382-4389. (zusammen mit Paul Nillesen) |
| “The absence of finite-temperature phase transitions in low-dimensional many-body models: a survey and new results” (Topical Review), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Vol. 13 (2001) R505-R524 (zusammen mit Wolfgang Nolting) |
| “Absence of a Magnetic Phase Transition in Heisenberg, Hubbard, and Kondo-lattice Films”, physica status solidi (b), Vol. 217 (2000) 805-818 (zusammen mit Wolfgang Nolting) |
III. Buchbeiträge | Book chapters
| “We Are the End of the World: Stories of Anthropocenic Hyperarousal", in Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility, hg. von B. Beck & M. Kühler, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2020, 75-94. |
| “Probing Possibilities: Toy Models, Minimal Models, and Exploratory Models”, in Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology (MBR18), hg. von F. Salguero-Lamillar, C. Bares-Gomez, M. Fontaine, Cham: Springer 2019, 3-19. |
| "Assessing the Credibility of Conceptual Models", in Computer Simulation Validation, hg. von C. Beisbart & N. Saam, Cham: Springer 2019, 249-269. |
| “Rumor”, in The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, hg. von D. Coady & J. Chase, New York: Routledge 2019, 259-271. |
| “The Passion of Curiosity: A Humean Perspective”, in The Moral Psychology of Curiosity, hg. von I. Inan, L. Watson, D. Whitcomb & S. Yigit, London: Rowman & Littlefield 2018, 57-76. |
| “Models in Search of Targets: Exploratory Modelling and the Case of Turing Patterns”, in Philosophy of Science: Between Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, hg. von A. Christian, D. Hommen, N. Retzlaff & G. Schurz, Dordrecht: Springer 2018, 245-271. |
| “Saving Models from Phenomena: A Cautionary Tale from Membrane and Cell Biology”, in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. Proceedings of the 5th Conference, hg. von F. Stadler, Dordrecht: Springer 2017, 17-30 (zusammen mit Jacob Mok) |
| “The Ontology of Models”, in Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science, hg. von L. Magnani & T. Bertolotti, Heidelberg/New York: Springer 2017, 5-23 |
| “The Unreasonable Attractiveness of Mathematics to Artists and Scientists”, in Towards the Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Mathematical Bridges, hg. von K. Fenyvesi and T. Lähdesmäki, Boston/Basel: Birkhäuser 2017: 63-80 |
| “'Keine gewöhnlichere, nützlichere und selbst für das menschliche Leben notwendigere Schlussart': Ein neues Bild von David Hume als Theoretiker menschlichen Zeugnisses”, in Über Zeugen: Szenarien von Zeugenschaft und ihre Akteure, hg. von M. Däumer, A. Kalisky und H. Schlie, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2017, 195-211 |
| “What is Science?”, in What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?, hg. von D. Pritchard, London: Routledge 2016, 239-252 |
| “Can We Trust Scientific Models?”, in What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?, hg. von D. Pritchard, London: Routledge 2016, 253-264 |
| “Is Science Getting Closer to the Truth?”, in What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?, hg. von D. Pritchard, London: Routledge 2016, 265-276 |
| “Between Rigor and Reality: Many-Body Models in Condensed Matter Physics”, in Why More Is Different: Philosophical Issues in Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems, hg. von B. Falkenburg und M. Morrison, Heidelberg: Springer 2015, 201-226 |
| “Das Zeugnis anderer”, in Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie, hg. von N. Kompa & S. Schmoranzer, Münster: mentis 2014, 225-240 |
| “The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry”, in Conflicting Values of Inquiry: Ideologies of Epistemology in Early Modern Europe, hg. von T. Demeter, K. Murphy, und C. Zittel, Leiden: Brill 2014, 246-271 |
| “Communicability and the Public Misuse of Communication: Kant on the Pathologies of Testimony”, in Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010, hg. von S. Bacin, A. Ferrarin, C. LaRocca & M. Ruffing. Berlin: de Gruyter 2013, 257-268 |
| “Rumour, Gossip, and Conspiracy Theories: Pathologies of Testimony and the Principle of Publicity”, in Rumours and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age, hg. von G. Dalziel. London: Routledge 2013, 20-45 |
| “Hume on Testimony Revisited”, in David Hume and Contemporary Philosophy, hg. von I. Kasavin. Newcastle: CSP 2012, 79-99. (Nachdruck des Zeitschriftenaufsatzes unter demselben Titel, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 2010.) |
| “Scientific Models, Simulation, and the Experimenter's Regress”, in Representation, Models and Simulations, hg. von P. Humphreys und C. Imbert, London: Routledge 2011, 145-167 |
| “Learning from Testimony: Cognitive Cultures and the Epistemic Status of Testimony-Based Beliefs”, in Culture, Nature, Memes: Dynamic Cognitive Theories, hg. von Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. Newcastle: CSP 2008, 34-56 |
| “Education and the Republic of Science”, in Philosophical Reflections for Educators, hg. von Charlene Tan. Singapore: Cengage Publishing 2008, 143-154 |
| “Das Zweifelhafte und das Pathologische: Skeptizismus zwischen Therapie, ‘philosophischer Krankheit’ und Bioethik” in Repräsentationen: Medizin und Ethik in Kunst und Literatur der Moderne, hg. von Bettina v. Jagow und Florian Steger. Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag 2004, 115-140 |
| “Zeugnis und Differenz: Über die Epistemologie des Beim-Wort-Nehmens und In-Erfahrung-Bringens”, in Differenzerfahrung und Selbst, hg. von Bettina v. Jagow und Florian Steger. Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag 2003, 123-140 |
IV. Herausgeberschaften | Edited journal issues
| Special Issue "Exploratory Models and Exploratory Modeling in Science", Perspectives on Science, (forthcoming, mit Grant Fisher & Friedrich Steinle) |
| Special Issue "Philosophical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology", Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 44 No.2, 2013 (mit Gabriele Gramelsberger & Tarja Knuuttila) |
| Special Issue "Technologies, Lives and Futures in Asia", Science, Technolog, and Society, Vol. 17 No. 1-2, 2012 (mit Catelijne Coopmans, Connor Graham & Gregory Clancey) |
| Special Issue "Model-Based Representation in Scientific Practice", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42 No. 2, 2011 |
V. Rezensionen | Reviews
| Rez. v. Andreas Gelhard, Ruben Hackler und Sandro Zanetti (Hg.), Epistemische Tugenden. Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart eines Konzepts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019). H-Soz-u-Kult (15.2.2021) / Soziopolis (16.2.2021). |
| Rez. v. Eric Winsberg: Philosophy and Climate Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018). Journal for General Philosophy of Science Vol. 51, 2020, 199–202. |
| Rez. v. Alexandre Guay & Thomas Pradeu (Hg.), Individuals Across the Sciences (New York: Oxford University Press 2015). Metascience Vol. 25 (3) 2016, 491-495. |
| Rez. v. Benjamin McMyler: Testimony, Trust & Authority (New York: Oxford University Press 2011). Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 30 (1) 2013, 101-103. |
| Rez. v. Sanford Goldberg: Relying On Others. An Essay in Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010). Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 90 (3) 2012, 616-617. |
| Rez. v. Miranda Fricker: Epistemic Injustice. Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007). Times Literary Supplement, 3 October 2008, p. 25. |
| Rez. v. Tamás Demeter (Hg.) Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2004). Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (Vol. 10, 'Philosophy of Mind', 2007), 206-211. |
| Rez. v. Richard Foley, Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001). Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (Vol. 8, 'History of Epistemology', 2005), 220-227. |
| Rez. v. Freeman Dyson: The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet, and of Michio Kaku: Visions. Science and Public Policy Vol. 28 (2001) 230-232. |