Publications

Ann-Sophie Barwich, Publications Academia.edu

Book

Forthcoming (July 2020). Smellosophy: What the Nose tells the Mind. Harvard University Press.
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NEUROPHILOSOPHY: PERCEPTION & COGNITION

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

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.

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

2019 (forthcoming). “Sleight of Hand in Ms. Fr. 640, fols. 33r-36r, 43v.” Essay, ed. by P. H. Smith.

Popular & Media

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

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.