Faculty, Postdoc, and Graduate Student Research: Selected Publications
Resident Fellows
Allchin, D. 2024. "Transforming History into Inquiry." American Biology Teacher 86:599-604.
- Boantza, V.D. 2017. Elements, instruments, and menstruums: Boerhaave’s imponderable fire between chemical masterpiece and physical axiom. In J. Buchwald and L. Stewart (eds), The Romance of Science, 9–46. Dordrecht: Springer.
- Boantza, V.D. and L. Tomory. 2016. The ‘subtile aereal spirit of fountains’: mineral waters and the history of pneumatic chemistry. Early Science and Medicine 21(4):303–331.
- Boantza, V.D. 2013. Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order. Burlington: Ashgate.
David Sepkoski, Mark Borrello; Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 February 2025; 55 (1): 44–47. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2025.55.1.44
Rossi-Mastracci, J., Smirnoff, D., Schuchardt, A., Guzowski, M. M., Weber, W. G., Love, A. C., Shaw, R. G., Travisano, M., Hund, A. K., Borrello, M. E., Roehrig, G. H., & Snell-Rood, E. (2023). Staying Accurate While Being Useful: biological principles in bioinspiration. Poster session presented at Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference.
Borrello, M.E. and D. Sepkoski. February 5, 2022. Ideology as Biology The New York Review of Books.
Branson, William. (2013). Solving the Cubic with Cardano. Convergence. 10.4169/convergence20131001.
Cook, R.T. 2021. MTV Logics. J Philos Logic
Tourville, T., and Cook, R.T. 2020. Embracing intensionality: Paradoxicality and semi-truth operators in fixed point models. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 28(5):747–770.
Cook, R.T., and Ø. Linnebo. 2018. Cardinality and acceptable abstraction principles. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 59(1):61–74.
Cunningham, Arthur. (2016). Where Hasker’s Anti-Molinist Argument Goes Wrong in advance. Faith and Philosophy. 33. 10.5840/faithphil201633060.
Cunningham, Arthur. (2014). Branches in the Everett interpretation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 46. 10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.01.008.
“Medicine and the Science of the Living Body” (with Evan Ragland) in Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, eds. David Miller and Dana Jalobeanu (Forthcoming).
“Introduction to CEPOS [Catholic Engagement in Philosophy of Science] Discussion Section” (with Karen Zwier). American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92.1 (2018), 107-121. Introduction to a special two-part, six paper Discussion Section on Catholic Engagement in Philosophy of Science.
Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy, coeditor with Benjamin Goldberg and Evan Ragland (Springer, 2016).
- Donaho, S. 2002. Standard quantification theory in the analysis of English. Journal of Philosophical Logic 31(6):499–526.
- Donaho, S. 1998. "Are Declarative Sentences Representational?", Mind 107 (January 1998), pp. 33-58.
- “On the Alleged Incommensurability of Newtonian and Relativistic Mass.” Erkenntnis. [published] [read-only open access] [preprint]
- With David E. Taylor: “The representation and determinable structure of quantum properties.” Synthese 204: 44. [published] [read-only open access]
- “The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science 55: 1–28. [published] [read-only open access] [postprint]
- James Franck, the Ionization Potentials of Helium, and the Experimental discovery of Metastable states. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 60 (2017), 95–209. PDF
- James Franck, the Ionization Potentials of Helium, and the Experimental discovery of Metastable states. Paper delivered to the Fourth Conference on History of Quantum Physics (HQ-4), Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain, 15–18 July 2015. Slides (PDF)
- The Franck-Hertz Experiments, 1911–1914: Experimentalists in Search of a Theory, with an Appendix, ‘On the History of our Experiments on the Energy Exchange between Slow Electrons and Atoms’ by Gustav Hertz. Physics in Perspective, 16 (2014), 293–343. Abstract (PDF)
- May, G. Ruth G. Shaw, Charles J. Geyer, and Daniel J. Eck. 2022. Do Interactions among Microbial Symbionts Cause Selection for Greater Pathogen Virulence? The American Naturalist 199:2, 252-265
- Al-Dhalimy, H., and C.J. Geyer. 2016. Surreal time and ultratasks. Review of Symbolic Logic 9(4):836–847.
- Eck, D.J., R.G. Shaw, C.J. Geyer, and J.G. Kingsolver. 2015. An integrated analysis of phenotypic selection on insect body size and development time. Evolution 69(9):2525–2532.
- Gordon-Roth, J. 2018. What kind of monist is Anne Finch Conway? Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4(3):280–97.
- Gordon-Roth, J., and N. Kendrick. 2015. Including early modern women writers in survey courses: a call to action. Metaphilosophy 46(3):364–379.
- Gordon-Roth, J. 2015. Locke's place-time-kind principle. Philosophy Compass 10(4):264–74.
Newton and Leibniz on Time. Forthcoming in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Edited by Nina Emery. New York: Routledge Press. 2025.
Claude Buffier on Duration and Existence'. With Miren Boehm. In Claude Buffier: Metaphysics, Commons Sense and Sociability. Ed. Anik Waldow & Darío Perinetti. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2025.
Norman Kemp Smith on the Experience of Duration. British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 31: 295-313. 2023.
Galin L. Jones, Qian Qin. 2022. Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice. Annual Review Statistics and Its Application. 9:557-578. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-040220-090158
Vats, Dootika. Flegal, James M. Jones, Galin L. Multivariate output analysis for Markov chain Monte Carlo, Biometrika, Volume 106, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 321–337, https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asz002
Kellert, Stephen H. 2008. Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines. University Of Chicago Press.
Kellert, Stephen H., Longino, Helen E., Waters, Kenneth C. 2008. Scientific Pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 19. The Pluralist 3 (1):132-137.
Dresow, M. and A.C. Love. 2025. The interdisciplinary entanglement of characterization and explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 76:519–545. [open access]
Guttinger, S. and A.C. Love. 2025. The epistemic strength of proxies in scientific measurement. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 15:41. [open access]
Love, A.C. 2025. Introduction to “What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us About Evodevo.” In R.A. Ankeny, M.R. Dietrich, and. S. Leonelli (eds.), Scaffolding: Selected Contributions of James R. Griesemer to History, Philosophy, and Biology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 321–326. [preprint] [published version]
Conway’s Demonstration of a Mediator Between God and Creatures
2024. With Alexandra Chang. Journal of Modern Philosophy: 1-31. doi: 10.25894/jmp.2041
Internal Applications and Puzzles of the Applicability of Mathematics
2023. Philosophia Mathematica: 1-20. doi: 10.1093/philmat/nkad109
McNulty, Michael Bennett. "Kant’s Aethereal Hammer: When Everything Looks Like a Nail." Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences (2024).
McNulty, Michael Bennett. "What Mathematics and Metaphysics of Corporeal Nature Offer to Each Other: Kant on the Foundations of Natural Science." Kantian Review 28 (2023): 397–412.
A. Kocharian, A. D. Redish, P. E. Rothwell (2025) Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind. Nature Neuroscience. (Also available as a bioRxiv unreviewed preprint.)
P. Cunningham, A. D. Redish (2025) Opposing, multiplexed information in lateral and ventral orbitofrontal cortex guides sequential foraging decisions in rats Neuron. (Also available as a bioRxiv unreviewed preprint.)
McMahon, S., Oakes, J.M, Lewis, B., Guan, W., Wyman, J. F., & Rothman, A.J. (2017). Assessing the effects of inter-personal and intra-personal behavioral change strategies on physical activity in older adults: A factorial experiment. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51, 376-390.
Sheeran, P.S., Klein, W.M.P, & Rothman, A.J. (2017). Health behavior change: Moving from observation to intervention. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 573-600.
The Epistemology of Attention (forthcoming)
The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd edition Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup (eds.) Wiley Blackwell. https://philpapers.org/rec/SAITEO-7
Saint-Croix, C., (2025) “Epistemic Virtue Signaling and the Double Bind of Testimonial Injustice”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 20. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4049
Thoen, RD., Southgate, A., Kiefer, G., Shaw, RG., Wagenius, S. 2025. The conservation value of small population remnants: Variability in inbreeding depression and heterosis of a perennial herb, the narrow-leaved purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia). Journal of Heredity.
Waananen, A., Ison, JL., Wagenius, S., Shaw, RG. 2025. The fitness effects of outcrossing distance depend on parental flowering phenology in fragmented populations of a tallgrass prairie forb. New Phytologist.
Shaw, R.G. 2019. From the past to the future: considering the value and limits of evolutionary prediction. American Naturalist 193:1–10.
Slowik, E.S. 2019. Cartesian Holenmerism and its Discontents: Or, On the “Dislocated” Relationship of Descartes’s God to the Material World. Journal of the History of Philosophy 57:235-254.
Slowik, E.S. 2019. The Deep Metaphysics of Quantum Gravity: The Seventeenth Century Legacy and an Alternative Ontology beyond Substantivalism and Relationism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 44:490-499.
Santiago‐Rosario, LY., Shephard, AM., Snell‐Rood, E., Herrmann, AD., Harms, KE. 2025. Butterfly species vary in sex‐specific sodium accumulation from larval diets. Ecological Entomology 50 (1), 228-234.
Magner, ET., Norris, JT., Snell-Rood, EC., Hegeman, AD., Carter, CJ. 2024. An improved method and apparatus for assessing bee foraging preferences. Apidologie 55 (6), 80.
Fletcher, S.C., Taylor, D.E. 2021. Two quantum logics of indeterminacy. Synthese 199, 13247–13281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03375-2
Fletcher, S.C., Taylor, D.E. 2021. Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link. Synthese 199, 11181–11212 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03285-3
Taylor, D.E. 2021. Reference for neo-Fregeans. Synthese 198, 11505–11536. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02811-z
Tiberius, V. What Do You Want From Life: a Philosophical Guide to Figuring out What Matters. (2023). Princeton University Press.
DeYoung, C. G., & Tiberius, V. (2023). Value Fulfillment from a Cybernetic Perspective: A New Psychological Theory of Well-Being. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 27(1), 3-27.
Tiberius, V. 2021. “Growth and the Multiple Dimensions of Well-Being: A Philosopher’s Take on the Idea of Post-Traumatic Growth”, in Redesigning Research on Post-Traumatic Growth: Challenges, Pitfalls, and New Directions, edited by Frank J. Infurna and Eranda Jayawickreme. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-11.
Rebolleda-Gómez, M., and M. Travisano. 2019. Adaptation, chance, and history in experimental evolution reversals to unicellularity. Evolution.
Lin, H., R.J. Kazlauskas, and M. Travisano. 2017. Developmental evolution facilitates rapid adaptation. Scientific Reports 7(1):15891.
Driscoll, W. W. and M. Travisano. 2017. Synergistic cooperation promotes multicellular performance and unicellular free-rider persistence. Nature Communications 8:15707.
Truran, P.L., 2016. The Development of Creative Thinking in Graduate Students Doing Scientific Research. Educational Technology. Nov-Dec. pp 41-46.
Garry, V.R. and P.L. Truran. 2015. Developmental toxicology. In: S.M. Roberts, R.C. James, and P.L. Williams (eds), Principles of Toxicology: Environmental and Industrial Applications (3rd edition), 223–234. New York: Wiley.
Truran, P.L. 2013. Practical Applications of the Philosophy of Science: Thinking about Research. Berlin: Springer.
Selected publications from recent graduate student and postdoctoral Fellows
Max Dresow
"How the Cambrian Exploded: Contingency in the History of Science and Life." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.08.008
"Punctuated Equilibria in the 1970s: Stephen Jay Gould between Biological Improvement and Irreducible Hierarchy." Paleobiology. https://doi:10.1017/pab.2025.10073
JP Gamboa
Information coming soon.
Jasmin Özel
information coming soon.
Lauren Wilson
Wilson, L., & Elliott, C. (2025). The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence. Hastings Center Report, 55(5), 29–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.4985
Yoshinari Yoshida
Love AC, Yoshida Y (2026) “Reflections on model species in evolutionary developmental biology.” In: W Tworzydlo, S Bilinski (eds) Evo-Devo: In search of new model species, pp. 1-24, Springer, Cham [an updated version of: Love & Yoshida (2019) “Reflections on model organisms in evolutionary developmental biology”]
Love AC, Yoshida Y (2025) “Developmental biology.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Yoshida Y (2025) “Generalizing while embracing differences: Configurations of representations and cross-fertilization.” Synthese 206:9 [Preprint]
Love AC, Yoshida Y (2025) “Measuring cell movement: Concepts and quantification.” Developmental Biology 525: 172-184
Yoshida Y, Love AC (2025) “Mechanisms and principles: Two approaches to scientific generalization.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 15:26 [Preprint]