Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld

​In Press  |  Empirical Network Analysis as a Method for Philosophy of Science (with Malte Doehne) 
in Adrian Currie, Sophie Juliane Veigl (eds.): Philosophy of Science – A User’s Guide, MIT Press.

​Forthcoming  |  Model Transfer in Science
in Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, and Rami Koskinen (eds.) (forthcoming): The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling, Routledge.

Forthcoming  |  How Academic Opinion Leaders Shape Scientific Ideas: An Acknowledgement Analysis (with Malte Doehne),
Scientometrics

Forthcoming  |  The Role of Narratives in Transferring Rational Choice Models into Political Science (with Alexandra Quack)
History of Political Economy,
(part of the Special Issue on Narratives in the History of Economics, guest-edited by Mary Morgan and Tom Stapleford)

2023  |  Rational Choice Explanations in Political Science (with Johannes Marx)
in Harold Kincaid and Jeroen van Bouwel (Eds.): Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press

2023  |  Progress in Economics (with Marcel Boumans)
in Yafeng Shan (ed.): New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, New York and London: Routledge.

2023  |  Why Do Female Philosophy Students Drop Out of Philosophy? Some Evidence from the Classroom at the Bachelor’s Level (with Kathrin von Allmen and Jan Müller)
Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (Penultimate version)

2022  |  Revisiting the Criticisms of Rational Choice Theories
Philosophy Compass, 17 (1), e12774; https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phc3.12774

2021  |  Thick Concepts in Economics: The Case of Becker and Murphy’s Theory of Rational Addiction (with Charles Djordjevic)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 51 (4), 371–399, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00483931211008541

​2020  |  Understanding the Rationality Principle in Economics as a Functional A Priori Principle
​Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02730-z

2020  |  Introduction to the Special Issue: First Principles in Science: Their Status and Justification (with Milena Ivanova)
​Synthese, 198, 3297–3308, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02801-1

2020  |  Spielarten der Rational Choice Theorie
in Andreas Tutic (Ed.): Rational Choice, Berlin: De Gruyter, 59–86, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673616-003

2020  |  The Diversity of Rational Choice Theory: A Review Note
TOPOI - An International Review of Philosophy, 39, 329–347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9588-7
(part of the Special Issue entitled: New Trends in Rational Choice Theory, edited by Cédric Paternotte)

2019  |  Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts: Editorial (with Chiara Lisciandra)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 77, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.06.002
​(part of the Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts)

2019  |  What We Learn and Do Not Learn from Ivan Moscati’s Historical Account of Utility Measurement
Oeconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 9 (1), 93-108, https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.5083
(part of the Symposium on Ivan Moscati's: Measuring Utility: From the Marginalist Revolution to Behavioral Economics, Oxford University Press)

2019  |  New Scope, New Sources, New Methods? An Essay of Contemporary Scholarship in History of Economic Thought Journals, 2016-2017 (with Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Erich Pinzon Fuchs)
​History of Economic Ideas, XXVII (2), 121-161, https://doi.org/10.19272/201906102005

2019  |  Imagination Rather Than Observation in Econometrics: Ragnar Frisch's Hypothetical Experiments as Thought Experiments
HOPOS - The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 9 (1), 35-74, https://doi.org/10.1086/700197​

2019  |  The Diffusion of Scientific Innovations: A Role Typology (with Malte Doehne)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: Part A, 77, 64-80, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.12.001
(part of the Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts​)

2018  |  Five Reasons for the Use of Network Analysis in History of Economics (with Malte Doehne)
Journal of Economic Methodology, 25 (4), 311-328, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1529172
(part of the Special Issue entitled: Not Everything that can be Counted Counts: Historiographic Reflections on Quantifying Economics, edited by José Edwards, Yann Giraud, Christophe Schinckus)

2018  |  The Diffusion of Scientific Innovations: Arguments for an Integrated Approach (with Malte Doehne)
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0462

2018  |  Social Network Analysis: A Complementary Method of Discovery for the History of Economics (with François Claveau)
in E. Roy Weintraub and Till Düppe (Eds.): A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315169194-6

2018  |  Explaining Patterns, Not Details: Reevaluating Rational Choice Models in Light of Their Explananda
​Journal of Economic Methodology, 25 (2), 179-209, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1427882

2018  |  From Theories of Human Behavior to Rules of Rational Choice: Tracing a Normative Turn at the Cowles Commission, 1943-1954
History of Political Economy, 50 (1), 1-48, https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2017.1385984

2018  |  Network Analysis in the History of Economics (with François Claveau)
History of Political Economy, 50 (3), 597-603, https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7023542

2017  |  Between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules, and the Behavioural Sciences: The Emergence of Rational Choice Theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s
European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 24 (6), 1277-1317. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2017.1385984

2017  |  Philosophie der Politikwissenschaft
in Simon Lohse and Thomas Reydon (Eds.): Grundriss Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Die Philosophie der Einzelwissenschaften, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 615-650, https://doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-2987-8

2013  |  The Importance of Commitment for Morality: How Frankfurt Can Enrich Economic Models (with Katrien Schaubroeck)
in Bert Musschenga and Anton van Harskamp (Eds.): What Makes Us Moral: On the Capacities and Conditions for Being Moral, Springer Publishers, 51-72, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_4

2009  |  The Motive of Commitment and Its Implications for Rational Choice Theory
Analyse & Kritik 31 (2), pp. 291-317, http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/Dateien/56c1ae6114223_ak_herfeld_2009.pdf

2009  |  How Good are the Economists’ Explanations of Cooperation?
Conference Proceedings, European Consortium for Political Research Lisbon, https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/2d60c982-1017-412b-a72a-581a0bd37565.pdf

2008  |  ​Role of Normativity for the Explanation of Norm-Conformity
Conference Proceedings, Graduate Conference on Normativity of the University of Amsterdam, https:/www.researchgate.net/publication/254919542

2007  |  How to Cope with New Problems of Collective Action? A Need to Extend Individualism with a Theory of Systems 
McGill Undergraduate Journal of Development Economics, 1 (1), 27-38.

2016  |  The World in Axioms: An Interview with Patrick Suppes
Journal of Economic Methodology, 23 (3), 333-346, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2016.1189126

2014  |  Rational Choice as a Toolbox for the Economist: An Interview with Itzhak Gilboa
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 7 (2), 116-141, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v7i2.176

2012  |  The Potentials and Limitations of Rational Choice Theory: An Interview with Gary Becker
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5 (1), 73-86, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v5i1.101

2020  |  Review of Ivan Moscati (2019): Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics. Oxford University Press
Economics & Philosophy, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1017/S026626712000019X

2018  |  Review of Julie Zahle and Finn Collin (Eds.) (2014): Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science. Springer
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 48 (2), 247-261, https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393117733419

2018  |  Review of Brian Epstein (2015): The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences. Oxford University Press (with Francesco Di Iorio)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 48 (1), 105-135, https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393117724757

2017  |  Review of Marcel Boumans (2015): Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics. Oxford University Press
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science - Review of Books, http://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/marcel-boumans-science-outside-the-laboratory/​

2017  |  Review of William Thomas (2015): Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960. MIT Press
Isis - Journal of the History of Science Society, 108 (1), 227-228,​ https://doi.org/10.1086/690779

2015  |  Review of Paul Erickson, Judy Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin (2013): How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. University of Chicago Press
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 56, 88-90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2015.03.005

2014  |  Review of Steven Kates (2013): Defending the History of Economic Thought. Edward Elgar Publishing
Journal of Economic Literature, 52 (4), 1162-1165, https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.52.4.1160​

2009  |  Review of Heinrich Stieglitz (2008): Verbindlichkeit: Eine kritisch-realistische Bestimmung der Erkenntnis und des Wesens der Gesellschaft. Duncker & Humblot
ORDO - Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 60 (1), 554-558, https://doi.org/10.1515/ordo-2009-0133​

2008  |  ​Review of Victor Vanberg (Ed.) (2007): Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissen: Aufsätze zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftslehre von Friedrich August von Hayek. Mohr Siebeck
ORDO - Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 59 (1), 523-528, https://doi.org/10.1515/ordo-2008-0133

2019  |  Impact Factor Pressures, Scientific Practices, and the Place of Survey Articles in the History of Economics (with with Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Erich Pinzon Fuchs)
CHOPE Working Paper, 2019-09, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3389850

2015  |  Reflections on the MCMP Summer Schools on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students (with Milena Ivanova)
Digressions & Impressions, https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/2015/09/reflections-on-the-mcmp-summer-schools-on-mathematical-philosophy-for-female-students.html​

2014  |  Decisions, Groups, and Networks, 8-9 September, 2014. Report on Workshop
The Reasoner, 8 (12), 132-133, https://research.kent.ac.uk/reasoning/wp-content/uploads/sites/1804/2019/06/TheReasoner-812.pdf​

2013  |  The Many Faces of Rational Choice Theory. Dissertation Summary
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 6 (2), 117-121, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v6i2.143

2013  |  Axiomatic Choice Theory Traveling Between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules and Psychological Measurement, 1944-1956
CHOPE Working Paper, 2013-11, 1-67, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2296884

2012  |  The Martin Shubik Papers: From Early Game Theory to the Strategic Analysis of War (with Danilo Da Silva)
The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, ​https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/the-martin-shubik-papers

2021 |   Karl Heinz Hoffmann Prize
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (10.000 EUR)

2014 |   Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize
History of Economics Society, US. (500 US-Dollar)

2014 |   Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize
Wittener Universitätsgesellschaft of Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.

2021 |   ERC Starting Grant​
European Research Council, in support of the project: 'Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics' (1.5.Mio. EUR).

2021 |   Project Grant
University Research Priority Program “Equality of Opportunity,” UZH (145.000 EUR).

2020 |   Project Grant
Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung in support of the project ‘Why Do Female Students Leave Philosophy? Evidence from Switzerland’, (25.000 CHF).

2019 |   Conference Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in support of the conference ‘The Soul of Economics’ (23.000 CHF).​

2018 |   Workshop Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in support of the workshop ‘Concept Formation in the Natural and Social Sciences’ (13.400 CHF).

2018 |  Seed Money
UZH, in support of an SNF grant application (10.000 CHF).

2016 |   Research Grant 
European Society for the History of Economics in support of the project “Explorations in the recent history of decision theory, 1945‐1990,” together with Ivan Moscati (Insubria University) (11.000 EUR).

2015 |   Junior Research Fellowship
Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich (semester-long research fellowship awarded for academic excellence).

2014 |   Young Scholar Award
History of Economics Society.

2013-16 |   Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Germany.

2012-13 |   Junior Research Fellow
Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, USA.

2011-12 |   Predoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.
​Department: Lorraine Daston

2007-09 |   Full PhD-scholarship
Witten/Herdecke University.