Publications

Journal Articles

Schindler, S. and R. Scholl. 2022. Historical Case Studies: the “model organisms” of philosophy of science. Erkenntnis 87: 933–952.

Scholl, R. 2020. Unwarranted Assumptions: Claude Bernard and the growth of the vera causa standard. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 82: 120-130. [PhilSci Archive version]

Novick, A. and R. Scholl. 2020. Presume It Not: True causes in the search for the basis of heredity. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71(1): 59–86. [PhilSci Archive version] [This paper was picked as an Editors’ Choice.]

Scholl, R. 2018. Scenes from a Marriage: On the confrontation model of history and philosophy of science. The Journal of the Philosophy of History 12(2): 212–238. [PhilSci Archive version]

Green, S., M. Șerban, R. Scholl, N. Jones, I. Brigandt, and W. Bechtel. 2018. Network Analyses in Systems Biology: New strategies for dealing with biological complexity. Synthese 195(4): 1751–1777. [PhilSci Archive version]

Scholl, R. 2016. Spot the Difference: Causal contrasts in scientific diagrams. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 60: 77–87. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R. and K. Nickelsen. 2015. Discovery of Causal Mechanisms: Oxidative phosphorylation and the Calvin-Benson cycle. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 37(2): 180–209. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R. 2015. Inference to the Best Explanation in the Catch-22: How much autonomy for Mill’s method of difference? European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5(1):89–110. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R. and M. Pigliucci. 2015. The Proximate-Ultimate Distinction and Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Causal irrelevance vs. explanatory abstraction. Biology & Philosophy 30(5): 653–670. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R. 2013. Causal Inference, Mechanisms, and the Semmelweis Case. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 44(1): 66–76. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R. and T. Räz. 2013. Modeling Causal Structures: Volterra’s struggle and Darwin’s success. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 3(1): 115–132. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R., J. Marquis, K. Meyer, and D. Schümperli. 2007. Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Position and functional importance of the branch site preceding SMN exon 7. RNA Biology 4(1): 34–37.

Books

Sauer, T. and R. Scholl (eds.). 2016. The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Springer.

Book Chapters

Scholl, R. and T. Räz. 2016. Towards a Methodology for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. In T. Sauer and R. Scholl (eds.), The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Scholl, R. Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic. 2014. In M. C. Galavotti, D. Dieks, W. J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, M. Weber (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Springer, pp. 221–234. [PhilSci Archive version.]

Invited Articles

Scholl, R. 2015. Peptische Ulzera und Helicobacter pylori: Wie wir wissen, was wir wissen. Therapeutische Umschau 72(7): 475–480.

Book Reviews

Scholl, R. 2019. Review of Jutta Schickore: About Method. Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically. NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 27(1): 107–108.

Scholl, R. 2013. Review of Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology (edited by Alex Rosenberg and Robert Arp). Acta Biotheoretica 61(2): 285–288.

Scholl, R. 2012. Review of Elliot Sober: Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory. Acta Biotheoretica 60(3): 323–328.

Other Writings

Scholl, R. 2012. Workshop Report: Causality and Mechanisms in Philosophy of Science, 24–25 November. The Reasoner 6(3): 41–42.

Scholl, R. 2010. Commentary on Paolo Rossi Monti. In Balzan Prizewinners, Interdisciplinary Forum 2009. Milano: Fondazione Internazionale Premio E. Balzan.