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A.S. BARWICH

Publications:
Books, Articles, Science Communication.

(Full publication list in CV. Preprints of papers available on ResearchGate and Academia.edu.) 
CV (February 21, 2025)
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Books.

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(Selected) Articles.

Full publications list (2013 - present) in CV linked at the top of the page.

2025.
  • Williams, J., and A.S. Barwich. “Science as Intuition Pump: Dennett’s Methodological Legacy for Philosophy.” Philosophical Psychology.
  • OPEN ACCESS: Barwich, A.S., Firestein, S., and M.R. Dietrich. "Wider than the Sky: An Alternative to "Mapping" the World onto the Brain." European Journal of Neuroscience. 
  • OPEN ACCESS: Severino, G.J., Winkler, S.L., and A.S.Barwich. "The Effect of Timescale Dependence on Dyadic Interactions" Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47
  • Barwich, A.S. "Olfaction is a Spatial Sense." Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
  • OPEN ACCESS: Aczel, B., Barwich, A. S., Diekman, A. B., Fishbach, A., Goldstone, R. L., Gomez, P., ... and J.P. Ioannidis. "The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), e2401232121.
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2024.
  • OPEN ACCESS: Beer, R., Barwich, A.S., and G. Severino. "Milking a spherical cow: Toy models in neuroscience." European Journal of Neuroscience.
  • Barwich, A.S., and M. Rodriguez. “Rage Against the What? The Machine Metaphor in Biology.” Biology & Philosophy.

2023.
  • OPEN ACCESS: Barwich, A.S., and G. Severino. “The Wire is not the Territory: Representational Drift in Olfaction.” Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS), SI: The Dynamical Hypothesis Three Decades Later: Advances, Critiques, and Prospects for a Dynamical Cognitive Science (ed. by L. Favela, and V. Raja): doi.org/10.1111/tops.12689.

2022.
  • OPEN ACCESS: Barwich, A.S., and B.C. Smith. “From Molecules to Perception: Introduction to the Philosophy of Olfaction.” Philosophy Compass 17(11): e12883.
  • OPEN ACCESS. Barwich, A.S., and E.L. Lloyd. “More than meets the AI: The possibilities and limits of machine learning in olfaction.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 16: 981294.

2021.
  • Barwich, A.S. “Imaging the living brain: An argument for ruthless reductionism from olfactory neurobiology.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 512: 110560.

2020.
  • OPEN ACCESS: Barwich, A.S. “What makes a discovery successful? The story of Linda Buck and the olfactory receptors.” Cell 181(4): 749-753.

2019.
  • OPEN ACCESS Barwich, A.S. “The Value of Failure in Science: The Story of Grandmother Cells in Neuroscience.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 13: 1121.
  • OPEN ACCES: Barwich, A.S. “A Critique of Olfactory Objects.” Frontiers in Psychology 10: 1337.

2018.
  •  Barwich, A.S. “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.

2017.
  • Barwich, A.S., and K. Bschir. “The Manipulability of What? The History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.” Biology & Philosophy 32(6): 1317–1339.
  • Barwich, A.S. “Up the Nose of the Beholder? Aesthetic Perception in Olfaction as a Decision-Making Process.” New Ideas in Psychology 47: 157-165.

2015.
  • Barwich, A.S., and H. Chang. “Sensory Measurements: Coordination and Standardization.” Biological Theory 10(3): 200- 211.

Science Communication.

2021.
  • “The Lady Vanishes. Why women philosophers are often erased from history.” Aeon, April 18.

2020.
  • “What Did the Past Smell Like?” (Get a whiff of a new sensory experience in history) Nautilus, December 9.
  • “Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell.” (How your brain identifies an aroma from its minute molecular traces is a marvel). Nautilus, October 14.
  • “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) Proto.Life, September 10.
  • “Going viral: What Covid-19-related loss of smell reveals about how the mind works.” STAT NEWS, August 14.
  • “Mind your Nose.” (How smell training can change your brain in six weeks—and why it matters) Proto.Life, April 26.
  • “It's hard to fool a nose.” (Why might it be easier to fool your eyes than your nose?)" Aeon, March 30.
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