Monography
Pence, C. (2026). Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume IV, Forces, Fields, and Energy: Physical Sciences. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263845
Pence, C. (2026). Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume III, Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263838
Pence, C. (2026). Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain: Volume II, Deep Time: Geology and Evolution. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263821
Pence, C. (2026). Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume I, Building Philosophical Systems. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263814
Journal article
Garaev, A., & Pence, C. (2026). [Review of] Philosophy of Physiology. Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology. By Maël Lemoine. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 101(1), 53-54. https://doi.org/10.1086/739729 (Original work published 2026)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2026). Tracer le désaccord dans la taxonomie. Collegium, Académie royale de Belgique, Bruxelles.
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2025). Integrative Promise. Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Pence, C., & Conix, S. (2025). Disagreement in Taxonomy: Recent Data. CEFISES Work in Progress Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C., & Kaiser, K. (2025). Knowledge Synthesis in the Cultural Evolution Literature. ISHPSSB 2025, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Pence, C. (2025). Tracer le désaccord dans la taxonomie. Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS) 2025, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Maroc.
Pence, C. (2025). Opening the Black Box(es). OZSW Autumn School: Data-Driven Methods in Philosophy, Utrecht University.
Pence, C. (2025). The HPS “Long View” and the Case of the Journal Article. UCLouvain CEFISES History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2025). Scientific Disagreement, Taxonomy, and Biodiversity. Center for Advanced Studies, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Pence, C. (2025). Big Data et IA dans la recherche : Enjeux épistémologiques. Colloque du Cercle d’étudiants en philosophie, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2025). Fitness and Dispositional Properties. VUB/Ghent LHPS Day, Brussels, Belgium.
Book chapter
Pence, C. (2025). Textual Analysis and Conceptual Cartography. In Sophie Veigl and Adrian Currie (ed.), Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User’s Guide (p. p. 443-461). MIT Press.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2025). Quantitative Studies of Philosophy [Review of Eugenio Petrovich, A Quantitative Portrait of Philosophy: Looking Through the Margins]. Metascience, 34(1), 33-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-024-01039-8 (Original work published 2025)
Pence, C. (2025). [Review of] Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology. By Gregory Radick. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 100(1), 30-31. https://doi.org/10.1086/734513 (Original work published 2025)
Bertoldi, N., & Pence, C. (2025). “Popluation” in Biology and Statistics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 109(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.12.014 (Original work published 2025)
Gaillard, M., Pence, C., & Botbol-Baum, M. (2025). Organoid Ethical Typology: Varieties of Three-Dimensional Stem Cell Constructs and the Many Issues They Raise in Bioethics. Biology of the Cell (Online), 117(1), e2400093. https://doi.org/10.1111/boc.202400093 (Original work published 2025)
Pence, C. (2025). Randomness, Chaos and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory. Philosophy, Politics and Critique, 2(2), 157-169. https://doi.org/10.3366/ppc.2025.0075 (Original work published 2025)
Pence, C. (2025). [Review of] Stephen Case, Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science. British Journal for the History of Science, 58(4), 742-743. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087425101027 (Original work published 2025)
Monography
Pence, C. (2025). Integrative Promise: Explanatory Virtues in Biology. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88471-9
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2024). La biodiversité et le désaccord scientifique. Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique, Bruxelles.
Pence, C. (2024). Scientific Disagreement and Text Analysis. Maastricht University STS Colloquium, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Pence, C. (2024). Fitness and Dispositional Properties. Brandonfest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Pence, C. (2024). De l’homme moyen à la population statistique : Quetelet et Galton. Académie royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques, Bruxelles.
Pence, C. (2024). Metascience and the Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science Meets Quantitative Studies of Science, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Pence, C. (2024). Journal Articles as Ephemeral Texts. Ephemeral Media of Knowledge, Le Studium, Tours, France.
Pence, C. (2024). Author Meets Critics: Eugenio Petrovich, A Quantitative Portrait of Analytic Philosophy. Quantitative Studies of Philosophy, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Pence, C. (2024). John Herschel’s Philosophy of Science. John Herschel, The Last Polymath, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
Pence, C., & Gaillard, M. (2024). Disentangling the Diversity of Organoids. Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Pence, C. (2024). La « tension essentielle », la conformité et le complotisme. Cercle d’Étudiants en Philosophie, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2024). Historical Analysis and the Shifting Journal Article. Quantitative Studies of Philosophy, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2024). The Modern Synthesis and “Progress” in Evolution: A View from the Journal Literature. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 46(4), 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-024-00634-6 (Original work published 2024)
Evans, N. G., & Pence, C. (2024). Gain of Function Research and Model Organisms in Biology. Journal of Medical Ethics : an international peer-reviewed journal for health professionals and researchers in medical ethics, 50(3), 201-206. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108853 (Original work published 2024)
Pence, C. (2024). [Review of] Evolution and the Machinery of Chance, Marshall Abrams. BJPS Review of Books. Published. (Original work published 2024)
Bertoldi, N., Lareau, F., Pence, C., & Malaterre, C. (2024). A Quantitative Window on the History of Statistics: Topic-Modeling 120 Years of Biometrika. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(1), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad072 (Original work published 2024)
Pence, C. (2024). Putting Ambiguity to Work: Biodiversity and Rules of Engagement for Vagueness in Science. Lato Sensu : revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 11(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.20416/LSRSPS.V11I1.2 (Original work published 2023)
Conix, S., Cuypers, V., & Pence, C. (2024). Measuring and Explaining Disagreement in Bird Taxonomy. European Journal of Taxonomy, 943(1), 288-307. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2601 (Original work published 2024)
Book chapter
Pence, C. (2024). John Herschel’s Methodology in the Scientific Community. In Stephen Case and Lukas M. Verburgt (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel (p. p. 257-279). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009237727.013
Journal article
Lean, O. M., Rivelli, L., & Pence, C. (2023). Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74(4), 875-898. https://doi.org/10.1086/715049 (Original work published 2023)
Pence, C., & Hicks, D. J. (2023). Challenges for ‘Community’ in Science and Values: Cases from Robotics Research. Humana Mente : journal of philosophical studies, 16(44), 1-32. (Original work published 2023)
Bautista Perpinyà, M., & Pence, C. (2023). [Review of] Catastrophic Thinking, David Sepkoski. BJPS Review of Books. Published. (Original work published 2023)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2023). Building an Edition from Journal Articles. Wandel, Wert, und Wirkung von Editionen, Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Allemagne.
Pence, C. (2023). Causation, State Spaces, Evolvability, and Creativity. Evolvability: A Bridge Between the Proximate and Ultimate, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Pence, C. (2023). Digital Philosophy and Conceptual Cartography. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Philosophy of Science Lecture Series, Hong Kong (online).
Pence, C. (2023). Scientific Disagreement and Text Analysis. Big Data & HPS, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (online).
Pence, C. (2023). Textual Analysis and Conceptual Cartography. European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) 2023, Belgrade, Serbie.
Pence, C. (2023). Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration in Digital Philosophy. Third DR2 Conference, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Pence, C., & Hazelwood, C. (2023). Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology. Australia/New Zealand Philosophy of Biology Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Pence, C. (2023). Biodiversity and Taxonomy: Uncertainties and Tools. Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie, PhD Day, Université de Lille, Lille, France.
Pence, C. (2023). The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. National Taiwan University Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics, Taipei, Taiwan.
Pence, C. (2023). Conceptual Cartography and Textual Analysis. Methods in Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Pence, C. (2023). Digitally Charting the Field of Cultural Evolution. Ruhr University Bochum ROTO Lecture Series, Bochum, Germany.
Pence, C. (2023). Disagreement and Ambiguity in Biodiversity: A Digital Humanities Perspective. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Pence, C. (2023). Biodiversity and Taxonomy: Uncertainties and Tools. UCLouvain Earth and Life Institute (ELI-B) Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2023). Scientific Disagreement and Text Analysis. Philosophy [in:of:for:and] Digital Knowledge Infrastructures, University of Mainz (online).
Pence, C. (2023). Integrative Promise and Explanatory Virtues in the Life Sciences. National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Pence, C. (2023). Causation, State Spaces, Evolvability, and Creativity in Evolution. Leibniz Universität Hannover Colloquium Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion, Hannover, Allemagne.
Book chapter
Pence, C. (2023). Origin’s Chapter IX and X: From Old Objections to Novel Explanations: Darwin on the Fossil Record. In Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin’s “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking (p. p. 321-331). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40165-7_20
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2022). Biodiversity: Ambiguity Between Science and Society. CEFISES Seminar: Conservation, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2022). Biodiversity: Ambiguity Between Science and Society. Le vague dans les sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Pence, C. (2022). Natural Selection and the Metaphysics of Causation. Taiwan-Belgium Philosophy of Science Online Workshop, Online.
Pence, C. (2022). Natural Selection and the Metaphysics of Causation. New Perspectives on Causation in the Life Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
Pence, C. (2022). The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory. Instituto Interuniversitario López Piñero, Universitat de València.
Pence, C. (2022). Topic Modeling for Conceptual Cartography. Digital Humanities Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Pence, C. (2022). Chance, Selection, and the Mendelians. Mendel at 200, Bristol, England.
Pence, C. (2022). L’ascension du hasard dans l’évolution. Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de la vie (SHESVie), Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2022). The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory. Psychometrics and Statistics Seminar, University of Groningen (online), Groningen, Pays-Bas.
Pence, C. (2022). Natural Selection and the Metaphysics of Causation. Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universitat de València.
Pence, C., & Evans, N. G. (2022). Influenza Research, GoF, and Model Organisms. Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, États-Unis.
Pence, C. (2022). Mapping the Study of Biodiversity and Taxonomy. Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universitat de València.
Pence, C. (2022). La crise de la biodiversité : enjeux épistémologiques. Société Philosophique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2022). The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory. UC Merced Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Merced, California (online).
Pence, C. (2022). Les « problèmes pernicieux » ou, pourquoi les infos sont tellement déprimantes? Cercle d’Étudiants en Philosophie, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C., & Evans, N. G. (2022). Gain of Function Research and Model Organisms in Virology. Congrès Epancopi, Les enjeux éthiques et épistémologiques de la pandémie de Covid-19, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Pence, C. (2022). Taxonomy Corpus Analysis: Preliminary Data. Workshop on Taxonomic Disorder, Leuven.
Report
Gaillard, M., Pence, C., & Botbol-Baum, M.-. (2022). The challenging history of organoid research and its implications for ontology and ethics.
Gaillard, M., Pence, C., & Botbol-Baum, M. (2022). Identification and discussion of conceptual uncertainties relating to organoids, chimeric entities, and hybrids.
Gaillard, M., Pence, C., & Botbol-Baum, M. (2022). Typology for artificial biological entities.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2022). Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Generality Through Detail. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 94, 177-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.06.015 (Original work published 2022)
Pence, C., & Rivelli, L. (2022). Editorial Introduction to “Digital Studies of Digital Science”. Synthese : an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, 200, 328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03802-y (Original work published 2022)
Pence, C. (2022). The Proof of the Pudding [review of Yafeng Shan, Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science]. Metascience : an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, 31(2), 179-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00744-6 (Original work published 2022)
Pence, C. (2022). Whatever Happened to Reversion? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 92(1), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.01.019 (Original work published 2022)
Pence, C. (2022). Un seuil entre deux mondes ? Les animaux et les êtres humains de Darwin à nos jours. Revue théologique de Louvain, 53(4), 436-452. https://doi.org/10.2143/RTL.53.4.3291310 (Original work published 2022)
Deleuze, C., & Pence, C. (2022). Compte rendu : Béatrice Desvergne. De la biologie à la médecine personnalisée : mieux soigner demain ? Lato Sensu : revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.20416/LSRSPS.V9I1.3 (Original work published 2022)
Pence, C. (2022). Testing and discovery: Responding to challenges to digital philosophy of science. Metaphilosophy, 53(2-3), 238-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12549 (Original work published 2022)
Monography
Pence, C. (2022). The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic. Academic Press / Elsevier.
Book chapter
Pence, C. (2022). Charles Darwin (1809–1882). In Fieser, James ; Dowden, Bradley Harris (eds) (ed.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Fieser, J. & Dowden, B.
Pence, C. (2022). How Not to Fight About Theory: The Debate Between Biometry and Mendelism in Nature, 1890–1915. In Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (ed.), The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 147-163). University of Pittsburgh Press.
Pence, C. (2022). Karl Popper and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability. In Gimeno-Simó, J., Luque, V.J., & Pérez-González, S. (ed.), Karl Popper y el legado del Positivismo Lógico.
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2021). Hypothesis-Driven Digital Philosophy of Science. New Directions in Metaphilosophy, Canterbury, United Kingdom (online).
Pence, C. (2021). Promise as an Explanatory Virtue. Departmental Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Allemagne.
Pence, C. (2021). The Greatly Exaggerated Reports of the Death of Biometry. McMaster University Philosophy Department Colloquium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Pence, C. (2021). Topic Modeling and Optimization, or How We Scheduled ISHPSSB2021. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Online / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Pence, C. (2021). Hypothesis-Driven Digital Philosophy of Science. Summer School: Methodology in the History of Philosophy, Groningen, Pays-Bas (en ligne).
Pence, C. (2021). Darwin, Natural History, and Explanatory Breadth. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Online / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Pence, C. (2021). Breadth in Scientific Theories. Work in Progress Seminar, Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Pence, C. (2021). Digital Futures in the History of Science and Technology. History of Science Society, New Orleans, Louisiana / Online.
Pence, C. (2021). Breadth in Scientific Explanation. Société de philosophie des sciences 2021, Mons, Belgique.
Monography
Pence, C. (2021). The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108680691
Journal article
Pence, C. (2021). W.F.R. Weldon Changes His Mind. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(3), 61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00384-3 (Original work published 2021)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2020). Sciveyor: From Corpora to Philosophy of Science. Philosophy & Ethics Group, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas.
Pence, C. (2020). Toward a New Picture of the Causalist/Statisticalist Debate in Evolution. Colloquium, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UNED, Madrid, Espagne.
Pence, C. (2020). Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Abstraction Through Detail. PHILBIO Seminar, IHPST, Université Paris 1–Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Pence, C. (2020). Big Data, Natural History, and Breadth. Biology and Integrative Genetics Seminar, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Suisse.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2020). [Review of] Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology edited by Tobias Uller and Kevin N. Laland. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 95(2), 150-151. https://doi.org/10.1086/709062 (Original work published 2020)
Pence, C. (2020). [Review of] How Biology Shapes Philosophy, David Livingstone Smith. BJPS Review of Books. Published. (Original work published 2020)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2019). The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order: Bringing Statistics to Evolution. UCLouvain LIBST / ELI-B / Louvain4Evolution Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2019). Moral Responsibility After Robots. Faire exister les IA-robots-cyborgs: Un nouveau projet humaniste pour l’Europe ?, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Pence, C., Lean, O., & Rivelli, L. (2019). Digital Humanities as Empirical Philosophy of Science. XPhiSci 2019, Aarhus, Danemark.
Pence, C. (2019). Why Should We Value Biodiversity? Colloque du Cercle des Étudiants en Philosophie, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2019). Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Abstraction through Detail. New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics, Tel Aviv, Israël.
Pence, C. (2019). Causation and Metaphysics in Evolutionary Biology. VUB/Ghent Seminar in Philosophy of Science, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2019). From the Biological World to Statistical Theories: Nineteenth-Century Lessons for Twenty-First-Century Philosophy of Biology. ISHPSSB 2019, Oslo, Norvège.
Pence, C. (2019). Reversion and Ancestry in Early Genetics. UK iHPS Workshop, Exeter, England.
Pence, C. (2019). John Herschel and Nineteenth-Century Scientific Methodology. HSS 2019, Utrecht, Pays-Bas.
Pence, C. (2019). Reversion and Deep Ancestry in Early Genetics. Journée d’étude, Université Paris 7 — Diderot, Paris, France.
Pence, C. (2019). From the Biological World to Statistical Theories: Nineteenth-Century Lessons for Twenty-First-Century Philosophy of Biology. EPSA 2019, Genève, Suisse.
Pence, C. (2019). Analyzing the Biological Literature with evoText. Digital History and Philosophy of Science, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Pence, C. (2019). The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order: Bringing Statistics to Evolution. PhilInBioMed Seminar, ERC IDEM, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Pence, C. (2019). The Boundaries of Scientific Communities. Ethics/Philosophy of Technology Section Seminar, TU Delft, Delft, Pays-Bas.
Pence, C. (2019). Lessons from the Case of the Life Sciences: Thinking toward Philosophy of Science as Interdisciplinarity. Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Final Theory Program Seminar, Berlin, Allemagne.
Pence, C. (2019). The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order: Bringing Statistics to Evolution. UCLouvain CEFISES Work in Progress Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2019). The Challenge of Breadth. Facing the Future: 21st EMBL PhD Symposium, Heidelberg, Allemagne.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2019). Locating uncertainty in stochastic evolutionary models: divergence time estimation. Biology and Philosophy, 34(2), 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-019-9683-1 (Original work published 2019)
Journal article
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2018). How to Do Digital Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science : official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, 85(5), 930-941. https://doi.org/10.1086/699697 (Original work published 2018)
Pence, C. (2018). Buckets from an English Sea: 1832 and the Making of Charles Darwin by Louis B. Rosenblatt. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 93(4), 356. https://doi.org/10.1086/700773 (Original work published 2018)
Pence, C. (2018). Sir John F. W. Herschel and Charles Darwin: Nineteenth-Century Science and Its Methodology. HOPOS, 8(1), 108-140. https://doi.org/10.1086/695719 (Original work published 2018)
Pence, C. (2018). Origins of Darwin’s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place. By J. David Archibald. New York: Columbia University Press. $65.00. xvi + 192 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780231176842 (hc); 9780231545297 (eb). 2017. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 93(2), 128-129. https://doi.org/10.1086/698027 (Original work published 2018)
Pence, C., & Swaim, D. G. (2018). The economy of nature: the structure of evolution in Linnaeus, Darwin, and the modern synthesis. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8(3), 435-454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-017-0194-0 (Original work published 2017)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2018). Causation and Metaphysics in Evolutionary Biology. KU Leuven, Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Leuven, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2018). The Development of Darwin’s Views of Chance. Aarhus University, Center for Science Studies Seminar, Aarhus, Danemark.
Pence, C. (2018). An Introduction to Historical Explanation. UCLouvain Historical Explanation Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2018). Chance, Statistics, and Experiment in Early Evolutionary Biology. History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) 2018, Groningen, Pays-Bas.
Pence, C. (2018). Darwin on Mind, Ethics, and Animals. UCLouvain GRICE Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2017). Syntheses that Weren’t: W.F.R. Weldon on Chromosomes. ISHPSSB 2017, São Paulo, Brésil.
Pence, C., Peterson, E. L., & Macklem, G. (2017). C’mon, Neil! Why Good Philosophy of Science is Part of Good Science Teaching and Science. National Science Teachers Association Regional Meeting, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Pence, C., Peterson, E. L., & Macklem, G. (2017). Darwin and Evolution: Using Historical Critiques and Responses to Address Student Misunderstandings. National Science Teachers Association Regional Meeting, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Pence, C. (2017). What Role for Fitness? Deep South Philosophy of Biology, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Pence, C. (2017). Theories Under Stress: The Evolution of Early Genetics. University of Leeds HPS Centre Seminar, Leeds, England.
Pence, C. (2017). Theories Under Stress: The Evolution of Early Genetics. University College London Seminar, London, England.
Pence, C. (2017). Evolution and Chance. Darwin Day, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA.
Pence, C. (2017). Fitness and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory. London School of Economics Seminar, London, England.
Pence, C. (2017). Archives to Networks and Back Again. THATCamp HSS 2017, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2017). Is genetic drift a force? Synthese, 194(6), 1967-1988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1031-2 (Original work published 2016)
Pence, C. (2017). Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse. Debating Darwin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xvi+267. $30.00 (cloth); $18.00 (e-book). HOPOS, 7(2), 397-400. https://doi.org/10.1086/693430 (Original work published 2017)
Journal article
Pence, C. (2016). RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles. PLOS ONE, 11(1), e0146004. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146004 (Original work published 2016)
Ramsey, G., & Pence, C. (2016). evoText: A new tool for analyzing the biological sciences. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 57(1), 83-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.04.003 (Original work published 2016)
Mendelson, T. C., Fitzpatrick, C. L., Hauber, M. E., Pence, C., Rodríguez, R. L., Safran, R. J., Stern, C. A., & Stevens, J. R. (2016). Cognitive Phenotypes and the Evolution of Animal Decisions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(11), 850-859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.008 (Original work published 2016)
Book chapter
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2016). Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology. In Ramsey, Grant; Pence, Charles H. (ed.), Chance in Evolution (p. p. 1-11). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226401911.003.0001
Conference paper
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2016). evoText and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science Association 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Pence, C. (2016). Theories Under Stress: The Evolution of Early Genetics. The Science of Evolution and the Evolution of the Sciences, Leuven, Belgique.
Pence, C. (2016). The Economy of Nature and Structure in Evolution. KU Leuven Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy Seminar, Leuven, Belgique.
Pence, C., & Swaim, D. G. (2016). The Economy of Nature: Structure in Biology from Linnaeus, to Darwin, to the Modern Synthesis. The History of Science and Scientific Realism, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2015). What is Evolutionary Fitness For? Mississippi State University Philosophy Department, Starkville, Mississippi, USA.
Pence, C. (2015). Charles Darwin and Sir John F.W. Herschel. EPSA 2015, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Pence, C. (2015). Charles Darwin and Sir John F.W. Herschel. CLMPS 2015, Helsinki, Finland.
Pence, C. (2015). Prediction, Optimization, Chaos: The Role of Fitness. ISHPSSB 2015, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2015). evoText: A New Text Analysis Tool for the History and Philosophy of Biology. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2015). Military genomic testing: proportionality, expected benefits, and the connection between genotypes and phenotypes. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2(1), 85-91. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsu035 (Original work published 2014)
Pence, C. (2015). The many chances of Charles Darwin. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 53(1), 107-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.07.008 (Original work published 2015)
Pence, C. (2015). The early history of chance in evolution. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 50(1), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2014.09.006 (Original work published 2015)
Pence, C. (2015). Darwin’s Dice: The Idea of Chance in the Thought of Charles Darwin. National Center for Science Education. Report : defending the teaching of evolution in the public schools, 35(6), 11. (Original work published 2015)
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2015). Is Organismic Fitness at the Basis of Evolutionary Theory? Philosophy of Science : official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, 82(5), 1081-1091. https://doi.org/10.1086/683442 (Original work published 2015)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2014). Coming to Terms with Chance in Evolution. Louisiana State University Seminar, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Pence, C. (2014). Background: Attribution & Repression (in Cyberwarfare). Cyberwarfare, Ethics, and International Humanitarian Law, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland.
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2014). Is Organismic Fitness at the Basis of Evolutionary Theory? Philosophy of Science Association 2014, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Pence, C. (2014). Models, Probability, and the Deep Past. Models and Simulations 6, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
Journal article
Pence, C. (2014). Busting myths about “species”. Evolution: Education & Outreach, 7(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-014-0021-4 (Original work published 2014)
Book chapter
Ramsey, G., & Pence, C. (2013). Fitness: Philosophical Problems. In eLS. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0003443.pub2
Journal article
Hollocher, H., Pence, C., Ramsey, G., & Wirth, M. M. (2013). A path to success? A review ofevolution, development, and the predictable genomeby David L. Stern : Book Review. Evolution & Development, 15(1), 80-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12016 (Original work published 2013)
Pence, C. (2013). Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. A Cultural History of Heredity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xiii+218. $45.00 (cloth). HOPOS, 3(1), 168-172. https://doi.org/10.1086/668913 (Original work published 2013)
Pence, C., & Ramsey, G. (2013). A New Foundation for the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64(4), 851-881. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axs037 (Original work published 2013)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2013). Putting Process and Product Conceptions of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift to the Test. ISHPSSB 2013, Montpellier, France.
Pence, C. (2013). RLetters. NESCent Lunch Talk, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Pence, C. (2013). Putting Process and Product Conceptions of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift to the Test. European Philosohy of Science Association 2013, Helsinki, Finland.
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2012). It’s Okay to Call Genetic Drift a ‘Force’. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Pence, C. (2012). The Early History of Chance in Evolution. Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS4), Athens, Greece.
Pence, C. (2012). Biology Meets Metaphysics? The Causalist/Statisticalist Debate. PhiloSTEM-3, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
Pence, C. (2012). Four Conflated ‘Chance’-Like Concepts in Evolutionary Theory. Indiana Philosophical Association, Greencastle, Indiana, USA.
Pence, C. (2012). It’s Okay to Call Genetic Drift a ‘Force’. Philosophy of Science Association 2012, San Diego, California, US.
Pence, C. (2012). The Early History of Chance in Evolution: Causal and Statistical in the 1890s. History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) 2012, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Pence, C. (2012). Oyun: Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments in the Philosophy of Science. American Association of Philosophy Teachers 19th Biennial Workshop/Conference, Austin, Texas, USA.
Journal article
Philip, J. T., Pence, C., & Goodson, H. V. (2012). MTBindingSim: simulate protein binding to microtubules. Bioinformatics, 28(3), 441-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr684 (Original work published 2011)
Pence, C., & Buchak, L. (2012). Oyun: A New, Free Program for Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments in the Classroom. Evolution: Education & Outreach, 5(3), 467-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12052-012-0434-x (Original work published 2012)
Journal article
Pence, C. (2011). Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Critique of Darwin. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 33(2), 165-190. (Original work published 2011)
Hollocher, H., Fuentes, A., Pence, C., Ramsey, G., Sportiello, D., & Wirth, Michelle M. (2011). On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. By Brian Boyd. Belknap Press. Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press. $35.00 (hardcover); $19.95 (paper). xiii + 540 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐674‐03357‐3 (hc); 978‐0‐674‐05711‐1 (pb). 2009. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 86(2), 137-138. https://doi.org/10.1086/659913 (Original work published 2011)
Pence, C., Hollocher, H., Nichols, R., Ramsey, G., Siu, E., & Sportiello, D. J. (2011). Elliott Sober, Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory. Amherst, NY: Prometheus (2011), 230 pp., $21.00. Philosophy of Science : official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, 78(4), 705-709. https://doi.org/10.1086/661775 (Original work published 2011)
Pence, C. (2011). “Describing our whole experience”: The statistical philosophies of W. F. R. Weldon and Karl Pearson. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 42(4), 475-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.07.011 (Original work published 2011)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2011). The Conflation of “Chance” in Evolution. ISHPSSB 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Journal article
Ramsey, G., Hollocher, H., Fuentes, A., Pence, C., & Siu, E. (2010). Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. By Peter Godfrey‐Smith. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $49.95. ix + 207 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐955204‐7. 2009. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 85(4), 499-500. https://doi.org/10.1086/656856 (Original work published 2010)
Conference paper
Pence, C. (2009). The Statistical Philosophy of W.F.R. Weldon. ISHPSSB 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
