BOOKS
Wissenschaft und Realität – Versuch eines pragmatischen Empirismus. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.
Review in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2013.
Review in Theologische Literaturzeitung 139, 2014.
Prediction in Science (manuscript in progress).
EDITORIAL WORK
Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Co-editor with Jamie Shaw, Rotman Institute of Philosophy;
including contributions by Jamie Shaw, Karim Bschir, Chiara Ambrosio, Hasok Chang, Hakob Barseghyan, K. Brad Wray, Martin Kusch, Daniel Kuby, JB Manchak, Ian James Kidd, Matthew Brown, Sarah M. Roe .
Rory Kent’s Review in HOPOS
Michael Stuart’s Review in Metascience
Systematicity: The Nature of Science? Special issue for Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 2019. Co-editor together with Simon Lohse, Leibniz University Hannover and Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge; including contributions by Karim Bschir, Simon Lohse, Hasok Chang, Alexander Bird, Sara Green, Timothy Lyons, Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, Naomi Oreskes, Brad Wray.
PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS
Bschir, K. “Is Implicit Bias Real? On the Applicability of the Vera Causa Ideal in Social Science”, manuscript in preparation.
Bschir, K. “The Relevance of Feyerabend’s Humanitarian Pluralism for Science-Based Policy”, forthcoming.
Bschir, K. & Lohse, S. “Taking pluralism seriously: A new perspective on evidence-based policy.” Science and Public Policy, 2023.
Bschir, K. & Lohse, S. “Pandemics, policy, and pluralism: A Feyerabend-inspired perspective on COVID-19.” Synthese 200, 2022.
Lohse, S. & Bschir, K. “The COVID-19 pandemic: A case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42(58), 2020.
Bschir, K. “Perspectivism in Current Epigenetics.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10(41), 2020.
Bschir, K., Lohse, S. & Chang, H. “Introduction: Systematicity, the Nature of Science?” Synthese 196:761–773, 2019.
Bschir, K. “Failure in Science and Why it is a Good Thing.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 61(2): 301-310, 2018.
Barwich, A.-S. & Bschir, K. “The Manipulability of What? The History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.” Philosophy and Biology 32:1317–1339, 2017.
Bschir, K. “Risk, Uncertainty and Precaution in Science: The Case of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern Approach in Food Toxicology.” Science and Engineering Ethics 23(2): 489-508, 2017.
Bschir, K. “Realism, Empiricism, and Ontological Relativity. A Happy Ménage à Trois?” In: Laura Felline, Antonio Ledda, Francesco Paoli, Emanuele Rossanese (eds.) New Developments in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Proceedings of SILFS Triennial Conference. 2016.
Bschir, K. “Feyerabend and Popper on Theory Proliferation and Anomaly Import: On the Compatibility of Theoretical Pluralism and Critical Rationalism.” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5(1): 24-55, 2015.
Pahlich S, Bschir K., Chiavi C. et al. “Different Methylation Characteristics of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 and 3 Toward the Ewing Sarcoma Protein and a Peptide.” Proteins 61 (1): 164-175, 2005.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES
Bschir, K., Knobloch, J. & Lohse, S. “Post-COVID-19: Auf dem Weg zu einem integrativen Modell der wissensbasierten Politikberatung.” In: R. Hauswald & P. Schmechtig (eds.). Wissensproduktion und Wissenstransfer unter erschwerten Bedingungen:
Der Einfluss der Corona-Krise auf die Erzeugung und Vermittlung von Wissen im öffentlichen Diskurs. Freiburg, München: Karl Alber, 2022.
Shaw, J. & Bschir, K. “Introduction. Paul Feyerabend’s Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century.” In: K. Bschir and J. Shaw. Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Bschir, K. “Potentiality in Natural Philosophy.” In: Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson, and David Ray Griffin (eds). Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science. Berlin; Amsterdam: De Gruyter, 2016.
Bschir, K. “Vorläufig oder Grundlegend? Die Code-Metapher in der Molekularbiologie.” In: A. Gleiniger, G. Vrachliotis (eds.). Code – Zwischen Operation and Narration. Leipzig: Birkhäuser, 2010.
Bschir, K. “Willensfreiheit in grammatikalischer Hinsicht.” In: Abstract – Ideas, Facts, Fictions, published by W.I.R.E Think Tank of Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd and Collegium Helveticum, Volume 3, 2010. Republished in German in: S. Achermann, S. Sigrist, B. Varnholt, M. Wannaz, G. Folkers (eds.). Was zählt – 2013. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2012.
BOOK REVIEWS
Bschir, K. Review of “Singham, Mano, The Great Paradox of Science.” Metascience, 2021.
Bschir, K. Review of “Menachem Fisch, Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9(1): 189-192, 2019.
Bschir, K. Review of “Harrison et al. Wrestling with Nature – From Omens to Science.” Annals of Science 71(1): 144-147, 2014.
Bschir, K. Review of “Stengers, Isabelle. Cosmopolitics I.” Annals of Science 71(1): 129-132, 2014.
Bschir, K. Review of “Chalmers, Alan. The Scientist’s Atom and the Philosopher’s Stone – How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms.” Annals of Science 69(4): 575-577, 2012.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
Bschir, K. “Dialektik”, “Eristik”, “Elenktik”, “Klassifikation”. In: Stefan Schierholz & Herbert Ernst Wiegand (Eds.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft WSK Online. Berlin; Amsterdam: De Gruyter, 2012.
Hampe M. & Bschir, K. “Teleologie”. In: Enzyklopädie Philosophie. Hamburg: Meiner, 2010.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, MEDIA APPEARANCE & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Online essay on www.soziopolis.de: “Wider die Einseitigkeit. Ein Plädoyer für mehr Pluralismus in der öffentlichen Gesundheitspolitik.” With Simon Lohse, Hannover. January 2021.
Expert statement in Lena Bueche, “Corona: Wissenschaft ist trotz streitender Experten glaubwürdig.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 2020.
Steven Pinker kämpft für die Aufklärung. Das ist verdienstvoll. Nur macht er es sich etwas zu einfach.” In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 2018.
Blog entry on www.philosophie.ch: “Die Verantwortung in der Wissenschaft.” March 2018.
“Public Universities 2025 and Beyond.” Report for roundtable workshop “Scenarios for University Development 2025 and Beyond – Challenges for Publicly Administered Universities”, ETH Zurich, November 2017.
“Unabhängige Forschung ist eine Illusion.“ In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, August 2017.
Interview in DAS MAGAZIN, October 2016.
“Die Regeln der Wissenschaft.” In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 2016.
Blog entry on www.philosophie.ch: “Können wir uns auf die Wissenschaft verlassen?” June 2015
Report on a retreat organized by the directorate of ETH including two thirds of the faculty of ETH. April 2015.
“Was macht Wissenschaft zur Wissenschaft?” In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 2014.