Research

All my publications can be found here and at a variety of other open-access preprint archives, including the DIAL.pr archive of UCLouvain, PhilPapers, or the PhilSci-Archive. Slides and posters from talks can be found on DIAL and on figshare.

Books

Pence, C.H., ed. 2026. Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. 4 vols. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003263814. ISBN: 978-1-003-26381-4.
Pence, C.H. 2025. Integrative Promise: Explanatory Virtues in Biology. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88471-9. ISBN: 978-3-031-88470-2.
Pence, C.H. 2022. The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic. London: Academic Press / Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-323-91292-1.
Pence, C.H. 2021. The Causal Structure of Natural Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108680691. ISBN: 978-1-108-74169-9.
Ramsey, G. & Pence, C.H., eds. 2016. Chance in Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226401911.001.0001. ISBN: 978-0-226-40188-1.

Articles and Book Chapters

Pence, C.H. & Conix, S. forthcoming. “Mapping Controversy: A Cartography of Taxonomy and Biodiversity for the Philosophy of Biology.” In Experimental Philosophy and Corpus Analysis, Ulatowski, J., Weijers, D., & Sytsma, J., eds. London: Bloomsbury.
Pence, C.H. 2025. “Randomness, Chaos and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory.” Philosophy, Politics and Critique 2 (2): 157–169. doi: 10.3366/ppc.2025.0075.
Pence, C.H. 2025. “Textual Analysis and Conceptual Cartography.” In Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User’s Guide, Veigl, S. & Currie, A., eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 443–461.
Gaillard, M., Pence, C.H., & 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 117 (1): e2400093. doi: 10.1111/boc.202400093.
Bertoldi, N. & Pence, C.H. 2025. “‘Population’ in Biology and Statistics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 109: 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.12.014.
Pence, C.H. 2024. “Popper y la interpretación propensivista de la probabilidad [Popper and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability, trans. V.J. Luque].” In Karl Popper: Herencia y actualidad, Pérez-González, S., Luque, V.J., & Gimeno-Simó, J., eds. València: Universitat de València, pp. 203–224.
Pence, C.H. 2024. “Putting Ambiguity to Work: Biodiversity and Rules of Engagement for Vagueness in Science.” Lato Sensu 11 (1): 5–15. doi: 10.20416/LSRSPS.V11I1.2.
Casali, M., Michon, M., & Pence, C.H. 2024. “Introduction : Le vague dans les sciences.” Lato Sensu 11 (1): 1–4. doi: 10.20416/LSRSPS.V11I1.1.
Pence, C.H. 2024. “The Modern Synthesis and ‘Progress’ in Evolution: A View from the Journal Literature.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46 (4): 39. doi: 10.1007/s40656-024-00634-6.
Conix, S., Cuypers, V., & Pence, C.H. 2024. “Measuring and Explaining Disagreement in Bird Taxonomy.” European Journal of Taxonomy 943 (1): 288–307. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2601.
Pence, C.H. 2024. “John Herschel’s Methodology in the Scientific Community.” In The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel, Case, S. & Verburgt, L.M., eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257–279. doi: 10.1017/9781009237727.013. ISBN: 978-1-009-23767-3.
Lennox, J. & Pence, C.H. 2024. “Darwinism.” In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Zalta, E.N. & Nodelman, U., eds. Stanford, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab.
Bertoldi, N., Lareau, F., Pence, C.H., & Malaterre, C. 2024. “A Quantitative Window on the History of Statistics: Topic-Modelling 120 Years of Biometrika.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 39: 13–29. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqad072.
Evans, N.G. & Pence, C.H. 2024. “Gain of Function Research and Model Organisms in Biology.” Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (3): 201–206. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108853.
Lean, O.M., Rivelli, L., & Pence, C.H. 2023. “Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74 (4): 875–898. doi: 10.1086/715049.
Pence, C.H. & 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.
Pence, C.H. 2023. “Origin’s Chapter IX and X: From Old Objections to Novel Explanations: Darwin on the Fossil Record.” In Understanding Evolution in Darwin’s “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking, Brzezinski Prestes, M. E., ed. Cham: Springer, pp. 321–331. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-40165-7_20. ISBN: 978-3-031-40164-0.
Pence, C.H. 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. doi: 10.2143/RTL.53.4.3291310.
Pence, C.H. 2022. “Charles Darwin (1809–1882).” In Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fieser, J. & Dowden, B., eds.
Pence, C.H. 2022. “How Not to Fight About Theory: The Debate Between Biometry and Mendelism in Nature, 1890–1915.” In The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science, Ramsey, G. & De Block, A., eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 147–163. ISBN: 978-0-822-94737-0.
Pence, C.H. & Rivelli, L. 2022. “Editorial Introduction to “Digital Studies of Digital Science”.” Synthese 200: 328. doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03802-y.
Pence, C.H. 2022. “Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Generality Through Detail.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 94: 177–190. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.06.015.
Pence, C.H. 2022. “Testing and Discovery: Responding to Challenges to Digital Philosophy of Science.” Metaphilosophy 53 (2-3): 238–253. doi: 10.1111/meta.12549.
Pence, C.H. 2022. “Whatever Happened to Reversion?” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92: 97–108. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.01.019.
Pence, C.H. 2021. “W.F.R. Weldon Changes His Mind.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (3): 61. doi: 10.1007/s13194-021-00384-3.
Pence, C.H. 2019. “Locating Uncertainty in Stochastic Evolutionary Models: Divergence Time Estimation.” Biology & Philosophy 34: 21. doi: 10.1007/s10539-019-9683-1.
Pence, C.H. & Ramsey, G. 2018. “How to Do Digital Philosophy of Science.” Philosophy of Science 85 (5): 930–941. doi: 10.1086/699697.
Pence, C.H. 2018. “Sir John F. W. Herschel and Charles Darwin: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology.” HOPOS 8 (1): 108–140. doi: 10.1086/695719.
Pence, C.H. & 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. doi: 10.1007/s13194-017-0194-0.
Pence, C.H. 2017. “Is Genetic Drift a Force?” Synthese 194 (6): 1967–1988. doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1031-2.
Mendelson, T.C., Fitzpatrick, C.L., Hauber, M.E., Pence, C.H., Rodriguez, R.L., Safran, R.J., Stern, C.A., & Stevens, J.R. 2016. “Cognitive Phenotypes and the Evolution of Animal Decisions.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31 (11): 850–859. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.08.008.
Ramsey, G. & Pence, C.H. 2016. “Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology.” In Chance in Evolution, Ramsey, G. & Pence, C.H., eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1–11. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226401911.001.0001.
Ramsey, G. & Pence, C.H. 2016. “evoText: A New Tool for Analyzing the Biological Sciences.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 57: 83–87. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.04.003.
Pence, C.H. 2016. “RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles.” PLoS ONE 11 (1): e0146004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146004.
Pence, C.H. & Ramsey, G. 2015. “Is Organismic Fitness at the Basis of Evolutionary Theory?” Philosophy of Science 82 (5): 1081–1091. doi: 10.1086/683442.
Pence, C.H. 2015. “The Early History of Chance in Evolution.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 50: 48–58. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2014.09.006.
Pence, C.H. 2015. “Military Genomic Testing: Proportionality, Expected Benefits, and the Connection between Genotypes and Phenotypes.” Journal of Law and the Biosciences 2 (1): 85–91. doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsu035.
Pence, C.H. & Ramsey, G. 2013. “A New Foundation for the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (4): 851–881. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axs037.
Ramsey, G. & Pence, C.H. 2013. “Fitness: Philosophical Problems.” In eLS, Clarke, A., ed. Milton Park, UK: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003443.pub2.
Philip, J.T., Pence, C.H. & Goodson, H.V. 2012. “MTBindingSim: Simulate Protein Binding to Microtubules.” Bioinformatics 28 (3): 441–443. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr684.
Pence, C.H. & Buchak, L. 2012. “Oyun: A New, Free Program for Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments in the Classroom.” Evolution: Education and Outreach 5 (3): 467–476. doi: 10.1007/s12052-012-0434-x.
Pence, C.H. 2011. “‘Describing Our Whole Experience’: The Statistical Philosophies of W.F.R. Weldon and Karl Pearson.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (4): 475–485. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.07.011.
Pence, C.H. 2011. “Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Critique of Darwin.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33 (2): 165–190.

Gray Literature

Arnould, J., Bartik, K., Coustenis, A., Dehant, V., Husniaux, A., Javaux, E., Kazarian, A., Lambert, D., Mandea, M., Migeot, J.-L., Missa, J.-N., Morbidelli, A., Poncelet, J.-P., Poullet, Y., Reisse, J., Schein, F., & Pence, C.H. 2024. “Manifeste pour une exploration et une utilisation de l’espace mieux contrôlées et plus responsables / Manifesto for a More Responsible and Better Controlled Space Exploration and Utilization.” Académie royale de Belgique.
Gaillard, M., Pence, C.H., & Botbol-Baum, M. 2022. “Typology for artificial biological entities.” HYBRIDA: Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and resulting technologies [EU H2020 SwafS]. doi: 10.3030/101006012.
Gaillard, M., Pence, C.H., & Botbol-Baum, M. 2022. “The challenging history of organoid research and its implications for ontology and ethics.” HYBRIDA: Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and resulting technologies [EU H2020 SwafS]. doi: 10.3030/101006012.
Gaillard, M., Pence, C.H., & Botbol-Baum, M. 2022. “Identification and discussion of conceptual uncertainties relating to organoids, chimeric entities, and hybrids.” HYBRIDA: Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and resulting technologies [EU H2020 SwafS]. doi: 10.3030/101006012.