Vita

• 2023: Habilitation, Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2019-: Junior Professor for History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2019: Assistant Professor, Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research (Ernst Haeckel House), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• 2018: Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge
• 2017: Visiting Scholar, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Vienna
• 2016: Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter
• 2015-2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2015-2017: Fellow of the Global Young Faculty (Foundation Mercator)
• 2015: Best Dissertation Award ('GdF Award'), Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2014, 2016, 2019: Visiting Scholar, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM)
• 2014: Visiting Scholar, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
• 2014: PhD, Ruhr University Bochum (Dissertation: ‘Causal explanation in epigenetics: Modeling complex biological systems’)
• 2013: Visiting Ph.D. Student, Finnish Centre of Excellence (TINT), University of Helsinki
• 2010: M.A. Philosophy; M.Ed. Biology and Philosophy; Ruhr-University Bochum

Publications

Books

• Above the Gene, Beyond Biology: Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. (2018) [Link]

Editions

• The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections. Routledge (Co-editors: A. Fábregas-Tejeda, G. I. Prieto, G. Radick, 2024) [Print] [pdf]
• New Perspectives on Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences. Routledge. (Co-editors: H. Pulte, D. Koenig, G. Nickel, 2024) [Print] [pdf]
• Postgenomic Determinism: Environmental Narratives After the Century of the Gene. Special Issue in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. J. Baedke, A. Chellappoo & M. Meloni (eds.) (2023-) [Link]
• New Styles of Thought and Practices: Biology in the Interwar Period. Special Issue in Journal of the History of Biology. J. Baedke & C. Brandt (eds.). (2022) [Link]
• What Counts as Environment in Biology and Medicine: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives. Special Issue in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. J. Baedke & T. Buklijas (eds.). (2021/22) [Link]
• Wahrheit oder Pflicht: Herausforderungen für die moderne Wissenschaft [Truth or dare: Challenges for modern science]. J. Baedke, A. Brunschweiger, U. Häger, A. Hemschemeier, C. Hundt, M. Richter & J. Theis (eds.). Klartext: Essen. (2017) [Link]
• Anthropologie 2.0? Neuere Ansätze einer philosophischen Anthropologie im Zeitalter der Biowissenschaften [Anthropology 2.0? New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Bioscience]. J. Baedke, C. Brandt & H.-U. Lessing (eds.). LIT: Münster. (2015) [Link]

Journal Articles

• How to eliminate race from human microbiome research. In: Argumenta. (Co-author: Abigail Nieves Delgado; 2024) [download pdf]
• Where the social meets the biological: New ontologies of biosocial race. In: Synthese (Co-author: Azita Chellappoo, 2023) [download pdf]
• Biological agency without levels. In: Spontaneous Generations (Co-author: Daniel S. Brooks, 2023) [download pdf]
• Between the wars, facing a scientific crisis: The theoretical and methodological bottleneck of interwar biology (Introduction to Special Issue "New Styles of Thought and Practices: Biology in the Interwar Period"). In: Journal of the History of Biology. (Co-author: C. Brandt, 2022) [download pdf]
• Where organisms meet environments (Introduction to Special Issue "What Counts as Environment in Biology and Medicine: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives"). In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. (Co-author: T. Buklijas, 2022) [download pdf]
• Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment. In: Biology & Philosophy (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Guido I. Prieto; 2021) [download pdf]
• Does the human microbiome tell us something about race? In: Nature: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Co-author: Abigail Nieves Delgado; 2021) [download pdf]
• Global climate change, diet and the complex relationship between human host and microbiome: Towards an integrated picture. In: BioEssays (Co-author: Francesco Catania, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Abigail Nieves Delgado, Valerio Vitali, Le Anh Nguyen Long; 2021) [download pdf]
• Revisiting Hans Böker's "Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms" (1935). In: Biological Theory. (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda, Abigail Nieves Delgado; 2021) [download pdf]
• Evolution and development. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Co-author: Scott Gilbert) (2020) [download pdf])
• Does the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis entail extended explanatory power? In: Biology & Philosophy 35, 20 (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda, Francisco Vergara-Silva; 2020) [download pdf]
• The holobiont concept before Margulis. In: The Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Abigail Nieves Delgado; 2020) [download pdf]
• What’s wrong with evolutionary causation? In: Acta Biotheoretica (2020) [download pdf]
• Race and nutrition in the New World: Colonial shadows in the age of epigenetics. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 76, 101175 (Co-author: Abigail Nieves Delgado; 2019) [download pdf]
• O organism, where art thou? Old and new challenges for organism-centered biology. In: Journal of the History of Biology 52, 293-324 (2019). [download pdf]
• From seconds to eons: Time scales, hierarchies, and processes in evo-devo. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 72, 38-48. (Co-author: Siobhan F. Mc Manus; 2018). [download pdf]
• Visual metaphors in the sciences: The case of epigenetic landscape images. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 48, 173-195. (Co-author: Tobias Schöttler; 2017). [download pdf]
• Exclusions, explanations, and exceptions: On the lawlike status of the competitive exclusion principle. In: Philosophy & Theory in Biology 7, e602. (Co-author: Jani Raerinne, 2015). [download pdf]
• Model organisms in evo-devo: Promises and pitfalls of the comparative approach. In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 36, 42-59. (Co-Author: Alessandro Minelli; 2014). [download pdf]
• The epigenetic landscape in the course of time: Conrad Hal Waddington’s methodological impact on the life sciences. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44, 756-73. (2013). [download pdf]
• Causal explanation beyond the gene: Manipulation and causality in epigenetics. In: Theoria 27, 153-174. (2012).[download pdf]

Book Chapters

• Plant agency: A short history from Kant to plant psychology, then to holism, and back again. In: A. Fábregas-Tejeda, J. Baedke, G.I. Prieto, G. Radick (eds.): The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections. Routledge (2024) [download pdf]
• Organismal Agency: A Persistent Riddle in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. In: A. Fábregas-Tejeda, J. Baedke, G.I. Prieto, G. Radick (eds.): The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections. Routledge (Co-authors: A. Fábregas-Tejeda, G.I. Prieto, G. Radick, 2024) [download pdf]
• From Kant to holism: The decline of neo-Kantianism and the rise of theoretical biology. In: New Perspectives on Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences. H. Pulte, J. Baedke, D. Koenig, G. Nickel (eds.) Routledge. (Co-authors: Alexander Böhm, Stefan Reiners-Selbach; 2024) [download pdf]
• Editors Introduction. In: New Perspectives on Neo-Kantianism and the Sciences. H. Pulte, J. Baedke, D. Koenig, G. Nickel (eds.) Routledge. (Co-authors: H. Pulte, D. Koenig, G. Nickel; 2024) [download pdf]
• A synthesis without Darwin: Unification attempts in early theoretical biology. In: Deconstructing Darwinism: Towards a New Historiography. R.G. Delisle, M. Esposito, D. Ceccarelli (eds.). Springer. (Co-authors: Alexander Böhm, Stefan Reiners-Selbach, Vera Straetmanns; 2024)
• Wissenschaftstheorie [Philosophy of science]. In: M. Gutmann, B. Rathgeber, K. Wiegerling (eds.): Handbuch der Technikphilosophie [Handbook of philosophy of technology]. Metzler. (2024)
• The organism in evolutionary explanation: From early 20th century to the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. In: T.E. Dickins & B.J.A. Dickins (eds.): Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory. Springer: Dordrecht. (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda; 2023) [download pdf]
• Teleology, organisms, and genes: Commentary to Haig. In: T.E. Dickins & B.J.A. Dickins (eds.): Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory. Springer: Dordrecht. (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda; 2023) [download pdf]
• The origin of new levels of organization. In: D. Brooks, J. DiFrisco, W. Wimsatt (eds.): Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. MIT Press: Cambridge, 153-174. (2021) [download pdf]
• Mechanisms in evo-devo. In: A. Love (ed.): Philosophy of Evo-Devo (Evolutionary Developmental Biology – Reference Guide, edited by G.B. Müller & L. Nuño de la Rosa). Springer: Dordrecht. (2020) [download pdf]
• What is a biological individual? In: Martín-Durán, J.M & B.C. Vellutini (eds.): Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution. Springer: Dordrecht, 269-284. (2019) [download pdf]
• The new biology of the social: Shaping humans’ future, science, and public health. In: G. Verschraegen, F. Vandermoere, L. Brackmans & B. Segaert (eds.): Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society. Routledge: London, 45-64. (2017) [download pdf]
• Die Moderne Wissenschaft: Werte und Strukturen im Wandel [Modern science: Changing values and structures]. In: J. Baedke, A. Brunschweiger, U. Häger, A. Hemschemeier, C. Hundt, M. Richter & J. Theis (eds.): Wahrheit oder Pflicht: Herausforderungen für die moderne Wissenschaft [Truth of dare: Challenges for modern science]. Klartext: Essen, 8-12. (2017)
• Raus aus dem Elfenbeinturm! Alte und neue Rollen der Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft [Leaving the ivory tower: Old and new roles of science in society]. In: J. Baedke, A. Brunschweiger, U. Häger, A. Hemschemeier, C. Hundt, M. Richter & J. Theis (eds.): Wahrheit oder Pflicht: Herausforderungen für die moderne Wissenschaft [Truth of dare: Challenges for modern science]. Klartext: Essen, 12-15. (2017)
• Grenzen des Menschseins: Intensivmedizinische Herausforderungen und anthropologische Ungewissheiten. [Borders of being human: Challenges in intensive care and anthropological uncertainties]. In: J. Baedke, C. Brandt & H.-U. Lessing (eds.): Anthropologie 2.0?. LIT: Münster, 89-102. (Co-author: Jessica Pahl; 2015)
• Challenges to characterizing the notion of causation across disciplinary boundaries: Comment on Faye. In: M.C. Galavotti, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, W. Gonzalez, D. Dieks & T. Uebel (eds.): New Directions in the Philosophy of Science (Series ‘The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective’). Springer: Dordrecht, 191-202. (2014) [download pdf]
• Die andere Epigenetik: Modellbildungen in der Stammzellbiologie und die Diversität epigenetischer Ansätze [The other epigenetics: Modeling in stem cell biology and the diversity of epigenetic approaches]. In: V. Lux & J.T. Richter (eds.): Kulturen der Epigenetik: Vererbt, codiert, übertragen [Cultures in Epigenetics: Inherited, Coded, Transmitted]. DeGruyter: Berlin: 23-41. (Co-author: Christina Brandt; 2014) [download pdf]

Reviews & Others

• Translation of “Böker, Hans (1935). Artumwandlung durch Umkonstruktion: Umkonstruktion durch aktives Reagieren der Organismen [The Change of Species through Reconstruction: Reconstruction through the Active Reaction of Organisms]. Acta Biotheoretica, 1, 17–34". In: Biological Theory. (With Alexander Böhm; 2021) [download pdf]
• Philosophische Probleme der Epigenetik [Philosophical problems of epigenetics]. In: Information Philosophie 2/2019, 22-31 (2019)
• Expanding Views of Evolution and Causality (Conference Report ‘Cause and Process in Evolution’, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Vienna, May 11th–14th, 2017). In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 48: 591-594. (2017) [download pdf]
• Complete bibliography of Hermann v. Helmholtz. In: Pulte, H., Heidelberger, M. and G. Schiemann (eds.): Hermann von Helmholtz: Philosophische und populärwissenschaftliche Schriften [Philosophical and popular-science writings]. Meiner: Hamburg, 1255-1335. (2017)
• Development, evolution, and the concepts between the two (Review of ‘Conceptual Change in Biology’. Ed. A. Love, 2015). In: Acta Biotheoretic 64: 99-103. (2016).
• Review of ‘Understanding Evolution’. K. Kampourakis (2014). In: Frontiers in Evolutionary Developmental Biology 4:11. Doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00011. (2016).
• Review of ‘Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie’. [Historical Dictionary of Biology]. G. Toepfer (2011). In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 46: 409-411. (2015).
• Editorial. In: J. Baedke, C. Brandt & H.-U. Lessing (eds.): Anthropologie 2.0?. LIT: Münster, 3-10. (Co-author: Christina Brandt, Hans-Ulrich Lessing; 2015).
• Review of ‘The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe’. Eds. Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick (2008), in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 43: 411-413 (2011).