Our group creates a wide variety of research products, including academic books and papers, materials for public audiences, and our blog. We also give talks to groups of specialists and the public, worldwide, and produce widely used open-source software. Check it all out below.
Note that as a group, we discourage the posting of our work on for-profit sites like Academia.edu or ResearchGate. All our articles can instead both be found here and at a variety of other open-access preprint archives.
The lab is always interested in talking about our work to any audiences who would like to hear about it. Send Prof. Pence an email and we’d love to set something up.
Sciveyor: From Corpora to Philosophy of Science
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
TU Eindhoven Philosophy and Ethics Group
| Talk Date: October 6, 2020, 2:15pm
Big Data, Natural History, and Breadth
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Biology and Integrative Genetics Seminar, Université de Lausanne
| Talk Date: October 5, 2020, 4:15pm
Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Abstraction through Detail
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
PHILBIO Seminar, IHPST, Université Paris 1–Sorbonne
| Talk Date: September 22, 2020, 2pm
Toward a New Picture of the Causalist/Statisticalist Debate in Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Colloquium, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UNED
| Conference Date: January 17, 2020
| Talk Date: January 17, 2020, 10am
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Final Theory Program Seminar
| Talk Date: December 2, 2019, 2pm
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Facing the Future: 21st EMBL PhD Symposium
| Conference Date: November 28–30, 2019
| Talk Date: November 29, 1pm
Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Abstraction through Detail
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics
| Conference Date: November 18–19, 2019
| Talk Date: November 19, 10am
Analyzing the Biological Literature with evoText
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Digital History and Philosophy of Science, Université de Québec à Montréal
| Conference Date: November 1, 2019
| Talk Date: November 1, 2019, 2:40pm
Digital Humanities as Empirical Philosophy of Science
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence,
Lean,
Rivelli
XPhiSci 2019
| Conference Date: October 15–16, 2019
| Talk Date: October 15, 2019, 3:25pm
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
EPSA 2019
| Conference Date: September 11–14, 2019
| Talk Date: September 12, 2019, 9:00am
John Herschel and Nineteenth-Century Scientific Methodology (round-table)
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
HSS 2019
| Conference Date: July 23–27, 2019
| Talk Date: July 26, 2019, 12:00pm
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
ISHPSSB 2019
| Conference Date: July 7-12, 2019
| Talk Date: July 10, 2019, 3:00pm
Reversion and Ancestry in Early Genetics
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
UK iHPS Workshop, Exeter
| Conference Date: June 20–21, 2019
| Talk Date: June 20, 2019, 4:30pm
Moral Responsibility After Robots
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Faire exister les IA-robots-cyborgs: Un nouveau projet humaniste pour l’Europe ?
| Talk Date: April 30, 2019, 3:00pm
Why Should We Value Biodiversity?
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Colloque du Cercle des Étudiants en Philosophie
| Talk Date: April 23, 2019, 2:00pm
Reversion and Deep Ancestry in Early Genetics
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Journée d'étude, Université Paris 7 — Diderot
| Talk Date: April 11, 2019, 11:00am
The Boundaries of Scientific Communities
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Ethics/Philosophy of Technology Section, TU Delft
| Talk Date: April 8, 2019, 3:00pm
The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order: Bringing Statistics to Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
UCLouvain LIBST / ELI-B / Louvain4Evolution Seminar
| Talk Date: March 29, 2019, 12:30pm
Causation and Metaphysics in Evolutionary Biology
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
VUB/Ghent Seminar in Philosophy of Science
| Talk Date: March 7, 2019, 3:00pm
The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order: Bringing Statistics to Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
PhilInBioMed Seminar, ERC IDEM, Université de Bordeaux
| Talk Date: March 5, 2019, 2:30pm
The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order: Bringing Statistics to Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
UCLouvain CEFISES Work in Progress Seminar
| Talk Date: February 27, 2019, 3:00pm
Causation and Metaphysics in Evolutionary Biology
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
KU Leuven, Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
| Talk Date: December 7, 2018, 3:00pm
The Development of Darwin’s Views of Chance
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Aarhus University, Center for Science Studies
| Talk Date: October 10, 2018, 2:15pm
An Introduction to Historical Explanation
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
UCLouvain Historical Explanation Seminar
| Talk Date: October 3, 2018, 3:00pm
Darwin on Mind, Ethics, and Animals
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
UCLouvain GRICE Seminar
| Talk Date: September 26, 2018, 3:00pm
Chance, Statistics, and Experiment in Early Evolutionary Biology
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) 2018
| Conference Date: July 9–12, 2018
| Talk Date: July 10, 2018, 3:30pm
C'mon, Neil! Why Good Philosophy of Science is Part of Good Science Teaching and Science
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
National Science Teachers Association Regional Meeting, 2017
| Conference Date: November 30–December 2, 2017
| Talk Date: December 2, 2017, 8:00am
Darwin and Evolution: Using Historical Critiques and Responses to Address Student Misunderstandings
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
National Science Teachers Association Regional Meeting, 2017
| Conference Date: November 30–December 2, 2017
| Talk Date: December 1, 2017, 9:30am
Archives to Networks and Back Again (keynote)
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
THATCamp HSS 2017
| Talk Date: November 12, 2017, 12:00pm
Syntheses that Weren’t: W.F.R. Weldon on Chromosomes
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
ISHPSSB 2017
| Conference Date: July 16–21, 2017
| Talk Date: July 18, 2017, 9:00am
Theories Under Stress: The Evolution of Early Genetics
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
University of Leeds HPS Centre Seminar
| Talk Date: May 24, 2017, 3:15pm
Later published: “How Not to Fight About Theory: The Debate Between Biometry and Mendelism in Nature, 1890–1915”
Theories Under Stress: The Evolution of Early Genetics
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
University College London
| Talk Date: May 17, 2017, 5:00pm
Later published: “How Not to Fight About Theory: The Debate Between Biometry and Mendelism in Nature, 1890–1915”
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Deep South Philosophy of Biology, University of Alabama Birmingham
| Conference Date: March 31–April 1, 2017
| Talk Date: April 1, 2017, 8:45am
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Darwin Day, Stephen F. Austin State University
| Talk Date: February 10, 2017, 12:00pm
Fitness and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
London School of Economics
| Talk Date: January 25, 2017, 5:00pm
evoText and Philosophy of Science
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Philosophy of Science Association 2016
| Conference Date: November 3–5, 2016
| Talk Date: November 4, 2016, 1:30pm
Later published: “How to Do Digital Philosophy of Science”
Theories Under Stress: The Evolution of Early Genetics
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
The Science of Evolution and the Evolution of the Sciences
| Conference Date: October 12–13, 2016
| Talk Date: October 13, 2016, 2:00pm
Later published: “How Not to Fight About Theory: The Debate Between Biometry and Mendelism in Nature, 1890–1915”
The Economy of Nature and Structure in Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
KU Leuven Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy Seminar
| Talk Date: October 11, 2016, 4:00pm
Later published: “The Economy of Nature: The Structure of Evolution in Linnaeus, Darwin, and Toward the Extended Synthesis”
The Economy of Nature: Structure in Biology from Linnaeus, to Darwin, to the Modern Synthesis
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence,
Swaim
The History of Science and Scientific Realism
| Conference Date: February 19–21, 2016
| Talk Date: February 19, 2016, 2:30pm
Later published: “The Economy of Nature: The Structure of Evolution in Linnaeus, Darwin, and Toward the Extended Synthesis”
What is Evolutionary Fitness For?
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Mississippi State University Philosophy Department
| Talk Date: November 6, 2015, 1:30pm
Charles Darwin and Sir John F.W. Herschel
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
EPSA 2015
| Conference Date: September 23–26, 2015
| Talk Date: September 23, 2015, 6:00pm
Later published: “Sir John F. W. Herschel and Charles Darwin: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology”
Charles Darwin and Sir John F.W. Herschel
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
CLMPS 2015
| Conference Date: August 3–8, 2015
| Talk Date: August 7, 2015, 6:30pm
Later published: “Sir John F. W. Herschel and Charles Darwin: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology”
Prediction, Optimization, Chaos: The Role of Fitness
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
ISHPSSB 2015
| Conference Date: July 5–10, 2015
| Talk Date: July 6, 2015, 9:00am
evoText: A New Text Analysis Tool for the History and Philosophy of Biology
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2015
| Conference Date: April 1–4, 2015
| Talk Date: April 4, 2015, 1:00pm
Later published: “evoText: A New Tool for Analyzing the Biological Sciences”
Is Organismic Fitness at the Basis of Evolutionary Theory?
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Philosophy of Science Association 2014
| Conference Date: November 6–9, 2014
| Talk Date: November 7, 2014, 1:30pm
Later published: “Is Organismic Fitness at the Basis of Evolutionary Theory?”
Background: Attribution & Repression (in Cyberwarfare)
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Cyberwarfare, Ethics, and International Humanitarian Law, International Committee of the Red Cross
| Conference Date: May 21–22, 2014
| Talk Date: May 21, 2014, 2:00pm
Models, Probability, and the Deep Past
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Models and Simulations 6
| Conference Date: May 9–11, 2014
| Talk Date: May 10, 2014, 2:30pm
Later published: “Locating Uncertainty in Stochastic Evolutionary Models: Divergence Time Estimation”
Coming to Terms with Chance in Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Louisiana State University
| Talk Date: February 3, 2014, 11:00am
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
NESCent Lunch Talk
| Talk Date: December 5, 2013, 12:00pm
Later published: “RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles”
Putting Process and Product Conceptions of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift to the Test
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
European Philosohy of Science Association 2013
| Conference Date: August 28–31, 2013
| Talk Date: August 30, 2013, 9:30am
Putting Process and Product Conceptions of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift to the Test
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
ISHPSSB 2013
| Conference Date: July 7–12, 2013
| Talk Date: July 12, 2013, 9:00am
It’s Okay to Call Genetic Drift a ‘Force’
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, 2012
| Conference Date: December 27–30, 2012
| Talk Date: December 29, 2012, 9:00am
Later published: “Is Genetic Drift a Force?”
It’s Okay to Call Genetic Drift a ‘Force’
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Philosophy of Science Association 2012
| Conference Date: November 15–17, 2012
| Talk Date: November 15, 2012, 2:00pm
Later published: “Is Genetic Drift a Force?”
Oyun: Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments in the Philosophy of Science
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
American Association of Philosophy Teachers 19th Biennial Workshop/Conference
| Conference Date: July 25–29, 2012
| Talk Date: July 27, 2012, 10:45am
Later published: “Oyun: A New, Free Program for Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments in the Classroom.”
The Early History of Chance in Evolution: Causal and Statistical in the 1890s
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) 2012
| Conference Date: June 21–24, 2012
| Talk Date: June 22, 2012, 2:15pm
Later published: “The Early History of Chance in Evolution.”
Software Demo: RLetters
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
| Conference Date: June 3–10, 2012
| Talk Date: June 6, 2012, 8am
Later published: “RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles”
Four Conflated ‘Chance’-Like Concepts in Evolutionary Theory
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Indiana Philosophical Association
| Conference Date: April 20–21, 2012
| Talk Date: April 21, 2012, 2pm
Biology Meets Metaphysics? The Causalist/Statisticalist Debate
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
PhiloSTEM-3
| Conference Date: April 13–14, 2012
| Talk Date: April 14, 2012, 1pm
The Early History of Chance in Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS4)
| Conference Date: March 15–18, 2012
| Talk Date: March 17, 2012, 11am
Later published: “The Early History of Chance in Evolution.”
evoText: Digital Humanities Meets Evolutionary Biology
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
Notre Dame Graduate Research Symposium (received two awards)
| Conference Date: 24th February 2012, 2pm–5pm
Later published: “evoText: A New Tool for Analyzing the Biological Sciences”
The Conflation of “Chance” in Evolution
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
ISHPSSB 2011
| Conference Date: July 10–15, 2011
| Talk Date: July 11, 2011, 11am
The Statistical Philosophy of W.F.R. Weldon
Lab Speaker(s):
Pence
ISHPSSB 2009
| Conference Date: July 12–16, 2009
| Talk Date: July 13, 2009
Later published: “‘Describing Our Whole Experience’: The Statistical Philosophies of W.F.R. Weldon and Karl Pearson.”