Publications
IN PRESS
Griesemer, James 2008, "Origins of Life Studies," Chapter 12 in Michael Ruse (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology.
Griesemer, James and Eörs Szathmáry 2006, "Gánti’s chemoton model and life criteria," in Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter, Steen Rasmussen, Liaohai Chen, Norman Packard, Mark Bedau, David Deamer, Peter Stadler, and David Krakauer (Eds.), MIT Press.
REPRINTINGS AND TRANSLATIONS
Star, S. L. and J. R. Griesemer 1999, Reprint of Star and Griesemer 1989, "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations,' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907 - 1939." reprinted in Mario Biagioli (ed.), The Science Studies Reader, New York: Routledge, 505-524.
Griesemer, J. R. 1996, "Le role des instruments dans l'analyse de la science," La Materialite des Sciences: Savoir-faire et Instruments dans les Sceinces de la Vie, Paris: Synthelabo Groupe, pp. 71-106. Translation and reprint of Griesemer, J. R. 1992. "The Role of Instruments in the Generative Analysis of Science."
Wimsatt, W. C. and J. R. Griesemer, 2007, "Reproducing Entrenchments to Scaffold Culture: The Central Role of Development in Cultural Evolution,” Chapter 7 in Roger Sansom and Robert Brandon (eds.), Integrating Evolution and Development: From Theory to Practice, Cambridge: MIT Press, 227-323.
Griesemer, James 2007, "Tracking Organic Processes: Representations and Research Styles in Classical Embryology and Genetics," Chapter 12 in Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein (eds.), From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press, 375-433. This book was selected for an "Outstanding Academic Title Award" from Choice Magazine, January 2008.
Griesemer, James and Elihu M. Gerson, 2006, "Essay review: "Of mice and men and low unit cost" (review of Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900–1955. Karen A. Rader; Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004, pp. 312). Studies in History and Philosophy of Biolological & Biomedical Sciences 37: 362-372.
Griesemer, James, 2006, "Theoretical Integration, Cooperation, and Theories as Tracking Devices," Biological Theory 1(1): 4-7.
Griesemer, James 2006, "Genetics from an Evolutionary Process Perspective," Ch. 8 in Genes in Development, Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (eds.), Duke University Press, 199-237.
Griesemer, James, Matthew Haber, Grant Yamashita, and Lisa Gannett 2005, "Critical notice. Cycles of contingency: Developmental systems and evolution," Biology and Philosophy 20:517–544.
Griesemer, J. R. 2005, "The Informational Gene and the Substantial Body: On the Generalization of Evolutionary Theory by Abstraction", in Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwright (eds.) 2005, Idealization XII: Correcting the Model, Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences. (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, volume 86) Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 59-115. Here it is in pdf: InfoGene2005
Gannett, Lisa and James Griesemer 2004, "Classical Genetics and the Geography of Genes," in Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Dr. Jean-Paul Gaudilliere (eds.), Routledge.
Gannett, Lisa and James Griesemer 2004, "The ABO Blood Groups: Mapping the History and Geography of Genes in Homo sapiens," in Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Dr. Jean-Paul Gaudilliere (eds.), Routledge.
Griesemer, James 2004, "Three-dimensional models in philosophical perspective," in Models: The Third Dimension of Science, S. de Chadarevian and N. Hopwood (eds.), Stanford, Stanford University Press, 433-442.
Gánti, Tibor, James Griesemer (editor), and Eörs Szathmáry (editor), 2003, The Principles of Life, with a commentary by James Griesemer and Eörs Szathmáry, Oxford University Press. The Principles of Life at Oxford University Press or Amazon.com.
Griesemer, J. 2003, "The Philosophical Significance of Gánti's Work," Ch. 5 of Gánti et al. 2003, The Principles of Life, with a commentary by James Griesemer and Eörs Szathmáry, Oxford University Press, 169-194.
Griesemer, James 2002, "What is "Epi" about Epigenetics?" In G. Vandevijver, L. Vanspeybroeck and D. Dewaele (eds.), From Epigenesis to Epigenetics: the Genome in Context, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 981: 97-110.
J. Griesemer, (2002). Space <=>Time: Temporality and Attention in Iconographies of the Living. Experimental Arcades: The Materiality of Time Relations in Life Sciences, Art, and Technology (1830-1930). H. Schmidgen. Berlin, Max Plank Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Preprint 226: 45-57.
J. Griesemer 2002, "Limits of reproduction: A Reductionistic Research Strategy in Evolutionary Biology," in M. H. V. Van Regenmortel and D. Hull (eds.), Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 211-231.
J. Griesemer and Churchill, F. B. 2002, "Weismann, August Friederich Leopold " in Mark Pagel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolution, Volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, 1149-1151.
Griesemer, J. 2000, "The Units of Evolutionary Transition," Selection 1: 67-80.
Griesemer, J. 2000, "Development, Culture and the Units of Inheritance," Philosophy of Science 67 (Proceedings): S348-S368.
Griesemer, J. R., 2000, "Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics," P. Beurton, R. Falk, and H-J. Rheinberger (eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution, Historical and Epistemological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 240-285.
Griesemer, J. R. and Wade, M. J. 2000, "Populational Heritability: Extending Punnett Square Concepts to Evolution at the Metapopulation Level," Biology & Philosophy 15 (1):1-17.
Griesemer, J. 1998 "Commentary: The Case for Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution," Journal of Evolutionary Biology 11(2): 193-200.
See also the essay reviews of Jablonka and Lamb (1995) and of Maynard Smith and Szathmary (1995).
Wade, M. J. and J. R. Griesemer, 1998 "Populational heritability: Empirical Studies of Evolution in Metapopulations," American Naturalist 151(2): 135-147.
Griesemer, J. R. 1996. "Periodization and Models in Historical Biology," in Michael T. Ghiselin and G. Pinna (eds.), Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, no. 20, New Perspectives on the History of Life, San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, pp. 19-30.
Griesemer, J. R. 1996. "Some Concepts of Historical Science", Memorie della Societa Italiana de Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di storia Naturale di Milano 27: 60-69.
Griesemer, J.R. 1994. "Tools for Talking: Human Nature, Weismannism and the Interpretation of Genetic Information", in Carl Cranor (ed.), Are Genes Us?The Social Consequences of the New Genetics, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 69-88.
Griesemer, J. R. and E. M. Gerson. 1993. "Collaboration in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology." Journal of the History of Biology 26(2): 185-204.
Griesemer, J. R. 1992. "The Role of Instruments in the Generative Analysis of Science," in A. Clarke and J. Fujimura (eds.), The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 47-76.
Griesemer, J. R. 1992. "Niche: Historical Perspectives," in E. F. Keller and E. S. Lloyd (eds.), Key Words in Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 231-240.
Griesemer, J. R. 1991. "Material Models in Biology", in A. Fine, M. Forbes and L. Wessels (eds.), PSA 1990, volume 2, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, 79-93.
Griesemer, J. R. 1991. "Must Scientific Diagrams Be Eliminable? The Case of Path Analysis," Biology and Philosophy 6: 155-180.
Griesemer, J. R. 1990. "Modeling in the Museum: On the Role of Remnant Models in the Work of Joseph Grinnell." Biology and Philosophy 5: 3-36.
Griesemer, J. R. and W. C. Wimsatt. 1989. "Picturing Weismannism: A Case Study of Conceptual Evolution." What the Philosophy of Biology Is, Essays for David Hull, M. Ruse (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 75-137.
Star, S. L. and J. R. Griesemer. 1989. "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations,' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907 - 1939." Social Studies of Science 19: 387-420.
Griesemer, J. R. 1988. "Causal Explanation in Laboratory Ecology: The Case of Competitive Indeterminacy." PSA 1988, Vol. 1, pp. 337-344. A. Fine and J. Leplin (eds.), East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association.
Griesemer, J. R. 1988. "Genes, Memes and Demes," Biology and Philosophy 3:179-184.
Griesemer, J. R. and M. J. Wade. 1988. "Laboratory Models, Causal Explanation and Group Selection." Biology and Philosophy 3: 67-96.
Griesemer, J. R. 1985. "Philosophy of Science and 'The' Scientific Method." American Biology Teacher 47:211-215.
Griesemer, J. R. 1984. "Presentations and the Status of Theories." PSA 1984, Vol 1, 102-114. P. D. Asquith and P. Kitcher (eds.) Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing.