Below you find a list of my published work: book(s), journal articles (in the humanities and science), essays (popular science/science writing), media (podcasts/interviews), book reviews, etc.
Most articles are available as preprints, too. (See links below). If you are interested in a piece but it is unavailable, shoot me a mail.
Thanks for checking this page out!
Most articles are available as preprints, too. (See links below). If you are interested in a piece but it is unavailable, shoot me a mail.
Thanks for checking this page out!
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BOOKS
PUBLISHED (1) Smellosophy: What the Nose tells the Mind. Harvard University Press, 2020. Publisher's Info / See also info here. (2) The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives. Ed. by John Bickle, Carl Craver, and Ann-Sophie Barwich (eds.). Routledge, 2021. Publisher's Info (3) IN PREPARATION The Senses and their Modalities. Cambridge Elements. Cambridge University Press. (Series: Philosophy of Mind; ed. By Keith Frankish) |
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JOURNAL PAPERS, ESSAYS, ETC.
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PUBLISHED / In Press
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SCIENCE WRITING & Communication
2020. "What Did the Past Smell Like?" (Get a whiff of a new sensory experience in history) Nautilus 2020. "Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell" (How your brain identifies an aroma from its minute molecular traces is a marvel). Nautilus 2020. "How to change your mind - over a glass of wine" (Becoming an expert in anything, whether it’s wine tasting or mathematics, changes the way you perceive the world) Neo.Life 2020. "Mind your Nose" (How smell training can change your brain in six weeks—and why it matters) Neo.Life 2020. "It's hard to fool a nose. (Why might it be easier to fool your eyes than your nose?)" Aeon |
NEUROPHILOSOPHY:
BRAINS, PERCEPTION & COGNITION (peer reviewed) Forthcoming. With Barry C. Smith. "From Molecules to Perception: Philosophical Investigations of Smell." Philosophy Compass. 2022. With John Bickle. "An Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Cognition.” In: Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introduction, ed. by B. D. Young & C. Dicey Jennings. Routledge, Chapter 3. 2019. "A Critique of Olfactory Objects." Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01337 (Open Access) 2018. “Measuring the World: Towards a Process Model of Perception.” In: Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, ed. by D. Nicholson, and J. Dupré. Oxford University Press. (Open Access) 2017. "Up the Nose of the Beholder? Aesthetic Perception in Olfaction as a Decision-Making Process." New Ideas in Psychology 47: 157-165. 2016. "Making Sense of Smell." The Philosophers' Magazine 73: 41-47. 2015. "What is so special about smell? Olfaction as a model system in neurobiology." Postgraduate Medical Journal (BMJ Journals) 92: 27-33. 2015. With Hasok Chang. "Sensory Measurements: Coordination and Standardization." Biological Theory 10 (3): 200-211. 2014. "A Sense So Rare: Measuring Olfactory Experiences and Making a Case for a Process Perspective on Sensory Perception." Biological Theory 9 (3): 258-268. |
PHILOSOPHY & HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Smell + other topics (peer reviewed) 2022. With Elisabeth A. Lloyd. "More than meets the AI: The Possibilities and Limits of Machine Learning in Olfaction." Frontiers in Neuroscience 2022. "Between Electrical Light Switches and Panpsychism: Scientism and the Responsibilities of the Humanities in the 21st Century." In: For and Against Scientism Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy, ed. by M. Mizrahi. Rowman & Littlefield, Chapter 8. 2021. With Lu Xu. "Where molecular science meets perfumery: A behind-the-scenes look at SCAPE microscopy and its theoretical impact on current olfaction." In: The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, ed. by J. Bickle, C. Craver & A.S. Barwich. Routledge, Chapter 4. 2021. "Imaging the living brain: An argument for ruthless reductionism from olfactory neurobiology." Journal of Theoretical Biology. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110560 2021. "Fishing for Genes: How the Largest Gene Family in the Mammalian Genome was Found (and Why Idiosyncrasy in Exploration Matters)." Perspectives on Science 29 (4): 359–387. 2020. With Matthew Rodriguez. “Fashion fades, Chanel No.5 remains: Epistemology between Style and Technology.” Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (History of Science and Humanities) 2019. "The Value of Failure in Science: The Story of Grandmother Cells in Neuroscience." Frontiers in Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01121 (Open Access) 2018. "How to be Rational about Empirical Success in Ongoing Science: The Case of the Quantum Nose and its Critics." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 69: 40-51 (Open Access) 2018. “Is Captain Kirk a natural blonde? Do X-Ray crystallographers dream of electron clouds? Comparing model-based inferences in science and fiction theory.” In: Thinking about Science and Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Science Together, ed. by Steven French, Otavio Bueno, and Dean Rickles. Routledge. 2017. With Karim Bschir. "The Manipulability of What? The History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors." Biology & Philosophy 32 (6): 1317–1339. 2015. "Bending Molecules or Bending the Rules? The Application of Theoretical Models in Fragrance Chemistry." Perspectives on Science 23 (4): 443-465. 2014. "Fiction in Science? Exploring the Reality of Theoretical Entities." In: Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations. Proceedings of the International Conference, ed. by G. Bonino, J. Cumpa and G. Jesson. De Gruyter, 291-309. 2013. "Science and Fiction: Analysing the Concept of Fiction in Science and its Limit." Journal for General Philosophy of Science 44 (2): 357-373. 2013. "A Pluralist Approach to Extension: The Role of Materiality in Scientific Practice for the Reference of Natural Kind Terms." Biological Theory 7 (2): 100-108. |
SCIENCE
(peer reviewed) 2021. With SM Kurian, RG Naressi, D Manoel, B Malnic, L Saraiva. "Odor Coding in the Mammalian Olfactory Epithelium." Cell & Tissue Research. 2020. "What makes a Discovery successful? The Story of Linda Buck and the Olfactory Receptors." Cell 181(4): 749-753 |
OTHER WORKS & PUBLICATIONS
2006. "Das Wundenmotiv in Tolkiens „Der Herr der Ringe“ unter dem Blickwinkel der traumatischen Erfahrung." In: Inklings. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik. Bd. 24., ed. by D. Petzold. Brendow.
Digital Edition, The Making & Knowing Project (ed. by P. H. Smith)
2020. “Sleight of Hand Tricks.” Essay.
Popular & Media
Regular Blog at Psychology Today
*updates for 2021 soon*
2021. Interview for the new Vox Podcast "Unexplainable" , Episode 1: The Sense of Smell, airing Match 10.
2020. Podcast “Nous” (Ilan Goodman "AS Barwich on the Neurophilosophy of Smell" )
2020.“The Culture File debate” (with: Harold McGee, Matthew Cobb, Meabh Mc Curtin, Aleesa Cohene):
2020 YouTube interview on Smellosophy with “The Dissenter” (Ricardo Lopez) --> Episode 411
2020. "What the nose tells the mind" RNZ New Zealand
2020. Being Human in Conversation --> "Returning to Our Senses" (video) -- With Barry C. Smith and Chrissi Kelly (AbScent)
20020. WFIU Profiles (Indiana Public Radio)
2020. And now for something completely different...! Podcast "Eat Prey Run: Zombie Food Preferences" @ZAMApocalypse: Peter Todd & I talk about sticking zombies into fMRI scanners, why rotten cabbage could safe you from being eaten by the undead, and why the apocalypse smells surprisingly sweet.
2020. Podcast "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm - A love letter to Smell (ABC / Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2020. Podcast "New Books in Neuroscience" - New Books Network with Joseph Fridman
2020. Podcast "New Books in Philosophy" - New Books Network with Carrie Figdor
2020. Podcast “Mindscape” with Sean Carroll (Episode 105)
2020. Webinar "Abscent" with Chrissi Kelly
2020. Podcast "Her" with Dr. Pamela Peeke / Radio MD
2020. Interview with The Smell Podcast
2020. YouTube interview with The Dissenter (Ricardo Lopez)
2020. Podcast "Shock and Smells" at Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone, ABC/Australian Broadcast Corporation) (at 35 mins)
2020. Interview with "What it's like to be a Philosopher" (Clifford Sosis)
2019. Interview with PhilInBioMed about Philosophy of Science.
2018. Podcast Interview with Super Awesome Science Show on "The Smells of the Season."
2018. Blog Post "The Cinderella of the Senses: Smell as a Window into Mind and Brain?" on iCog (University of Sheffield).
2018. Podcast Interview with SciPhiPod on life, smell, and the philosophy of science.
2018. Interview in the online magazine Fatherly on Teenage Body Odor.
2017. Podcast on the senses: Tell Me Something I Don't Know with Stephen J. Dubner.
2017. Commentary to " Five Facts about Linda Buck" in MassiveSci.
2017. Interview in the online magazine Fatherly on "The Importance of Playing with A Child’s Sense of Smell."
2017. Interview in Inside Science on a study on "Computing Odor Images" (by the Acree lab at Cornell).
2017. Blog post “Is Smell an Aesthetic Sense?” on Imperfect Cognitions.
2017. Interview in the online magazine Fatherly about a publication on the human sense of smell (McGann in Science 2017).
2017. Blog post “Making Sense of Scents: The Science of Smell.” on Auxiliary Hypotheses | The BJPS Blog.
Editorials, Reports, Reviews
2021. "Shiner, L. (2020). Art Scents - Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts." Perception. http://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211017095
2019. "Conscious Experience: a Logical Inquiry, by Anil Gupta." Philosophia. doi:10.1007/s11406-019-00111-6
2015. "Astrid Schwarz. Experiments in Practice. (History and Philosophy of Technoscience 2)." Isis 106 (4).
2013. With T. M. Baetu, D. Brooks, S. Dutreuil, and P. Germain. "Model Thinking in the Life Sciences: Complexity in the Making. Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. ‘In Vivo, ex Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Models in the life sciences.’ Hermance, Switzerland, 10–14 September 2012." Biological Theory 8 (1): 121-124.
2011. With A. Amilburu. "Bridging Disciplines? An Enquiry on the Future of Natural Kinds in Philosophy and the Life Sciences." Biological Theory 6 (2): 187-190.
2012. With S. Leonelli. "Editorial’" The Reasoner 6 (3).
2010. "Leibniz-Forschungsstelle der Universität Münster (Ed.) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Philosophischer Briefwechsel, Bd. 1: 1663–1685, Bd. 2: 1686–1694." In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik (ZfGerm) Heft 3/2010 Neue Folge. XX. Jg.: 675-677.
2007. "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gemeinschaften und Gedenkstätten E.V. (Ed.): Literatur vor Ort. Literarische Gesellschaften, Museen und Gedenkstätten." In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik (ZfGerm) 3/2007: 29.
2006. "Das Wundenmotiv in Tolkiens „Der Herr der Ringe“ unter dem Blickwinkel der traumatischen Erfahrung." In: Inklings. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik. Bd. 24., ed. by D. Petzold. Brendow.
Digital Edition, The Making & Knowing Project (ed. by P. H. Smith)
2020. “Sleight of Hand Tricks.” Essay.
Popular & Media
Regular Blog at Psychology Today
*updates for 2021 soon*
2021. Interview for the new Vox Podcast "Unexplainable" , Episode 1: The Sense of Smell, airing Match 10.
2020. Podcast “Nous” (Ilan Goodman "AS Barwich on the Neurophilosophy of Smell" )
2020.“The Culture File debate” (with: Harold McGee, Matthew Cobb, Meabh Mc Curtin, Aleesa Cohene):
2020 YouTube interview on Smellosophy with “The Dissenter” (Ricardo Lopez) --> Episode 411
2020. "What the nose tells the mind" RNZ New Zealand
2020. Being Human in Conversation --> "Returning to Our Senses" (video) -- With Barry C. Smith and Chrissi Kelly (AbScent)
20020. WFIU Profiles (Indiana Public Radio)
2020. And now for something completely different...! Podcast "Eat Prey Run: Zombie Food Preferences" @ZAMApocalypse: Peter Todd & I talk about sticking zombies into fMRI scanners, why rotten cabbage could safe you from being eaten by the undead, and why the apocalypse smells surprisingly sweet.
2020. Podcast "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm - A love letter to Smell (ABC / Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2020. Podcast "New Books in Neuroscience" - New Books Network with Joseph Fridman
2020. Podcast "New Books in Philosophy" - New Books Network with Carrie Figdor
2020. Podcast “Mindscape” with Sean Carroll (Episode 105)
2020. Webinar "Abscent" with Chrissi Kelly
2020. Podcast "Her" with Dr. Pamela Peeke / Radio MD
2020. Interview with The Smell Podcast
2020. YouTube interview with The Dissenter (Ricardo Lopez)
2020. Podcast "Shock and Smells" at Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone, ABC/Australian Broadcast Corporation) (at 35 mins)
2020. Interview with "What it's like to be a Philosopher" (Clifford Sosis)
2019. Interview with PhilInBioMed about Philosophy of Science.
2018. Podcast Interview with Super Awesome Science Show on "The Smells of the Season."
2018. Blog Post "The Cinderella of the Senses: Smell as a Window into Mind and Brain?" on iCog (University of Sheffield).
2018. Podcast Interview with SciPhiPod on life, smell, and the philosophy of science.
2018. Interview in the online magazine Fatherly on Teenage Body Odor.
2017. Podcast on the senses: Tell Me Something I Don't Know with Stephen J. Dubner.
2017. Commentary to " Five Facts about Linda Buck" in MassiveSci.
2017. Interview in the online magazine Fatherly on "The Importance of Playing with A Child’s Sense of Smell."
2017. Interview in Inside Science on a study on "Computing Odor Images" (by the Acree lab at Cornell).
2017. Blog post “Is Smell an Aesthetic Sense?” on Imperfect Cognitions.
2017. Interview in the online magazine Fatherly about a publication on the human sense of smell (McGann in Science 2017).
2017. Blog post “Making Sense of Scents: The Science of Smell.” on Auxiliary Hypotheses | The BJPS Blog.
Editorials, Reports, Reviews
2021. "Shiner, L. (2020). Art Scents - Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts." Perception. http://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211017095
2019. "Conscious Experience: a Logical Inquiry, by Anil Gupta." Philosophia. doi:10.1007/s11406-019-00111-6
2015. "Astrid Schwarz. Experiments in Practice. (History and Philosophy of Technoscience 2)." Isis 106 (4).
2013. With T. M. Baetu, D. Brooks, S. Dutreuil, and P. Germain. "Model Thinking in the Life Sciences: Complexity in the Making. Second European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. ‘In Vivo, ex Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico: Models in the life sciences.’ Hermance, Switzerland, 10–14 September 2012." Biological Theory 8 (1): 121-124.
2011. With A. Amilburu. "Bridging Disciplines? An Enquiry on the Future of Natural Kinds in Philosophy and the Life Sciences." Biological Theory 6 (2): 187-190.
2012. With S. Leonelli. "Editorial’" The Reasoner 6 (3).
2010. "Leibniz-Forschungsstelle der Universität Münster (Ed.) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Philosophischer Briefwechsel, Bd. 1: 1663–1685, Bd. 2: 1686–1694." In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik (ZfGerm) Heft 3/2010 Neue Folge. XX. Jg.: 675-677.
2007. "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gemeinschaften und Gedenkstätten E.V. (Ed.): Literatur vor Ort. Literarische Gesellschaften, Museen und Gedenkstätten." In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik (ZfGerm) 3/2007: 29.
