Monographs
& Edited Volumes

Lohse. S. 2019. Die Eigenständigkeit des Sozialen. Zur ontologischen Kritik des Individualismus [The Autonomy of the Social. On the Ontological Critique of Individualism]. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Lohse, S., Bschir, K. & Chang, H. (guest eds.) 2019. Systematicity: The Nature of Science? (Synthese – Special Issue: 196(3)).

Lohse, S. & Reydon, T. (eds.) 2017. Grundriss Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Die Philosophien der Einzelwissenschaften [Outline Philosophy of Science: The Philosophy of the Special Sciences], with an introduction. Hamburg: Meiner.

Lohse, S. 2009. Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt: eine systemtheoretische Studie zur Integration schwerbehinderter Menschen [Participation in the labour market: a systems-theoretical study of the integration of people with severe disabilities]. Tectum.

Selected Articles

Lohse, S.* & Valković, M.* 2026. (forthcoming). “Evolutionary Theory in the Sociocultural Domain and its Criticism”. Social Ontology Meets, Cultural Evolution, ed. Valković, M. & Reydon, T. Routledge.

Lohse, S. 2026. “Social Emergence and Unpredictability”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 115, 102096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102096

Pistollato, F., Furtmann, F., Straccia, M., Avey, M., Azilagbetor, D.M., Camp, C., Delaney, C., Ferreira, G., Garcia-Bermejo, M.L., Gastaldello, A., Gurusamy, K., Holden, L., Kimmelman, J., Lohse, S., Marigliani, B., Menon, J., Ritskes-Hoitinga, M., Sarasija, S., Tagle, D., Tripodi, I., Turner, J., Wehling, M. & Constantino, H. 2025. “Evaluating the translational value of pre-clinical models: available tools and frameworks, challenges and strategies”. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals. https://doi.org/10.1177/02611929251398821

Bschir, K. & Lohse, S.* 2025.. “On Elephants and Octopuses: Two Models of Pluralistic Policy Advice”. Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2025.10156

Gonzales*, K., Lohse*, S. & de Regt, H.W. 2025. “Reinforcement Learning through Human Feedback in LLMs: Whose Culture, Whose Values, Whose Perspectives?”. Philosophy & Technology 38, article 35. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00861-0

Canali, S. & Lohse, S. 2024. “How to Move Beyond Epistemic Battles: Pluralism and Contextualism at the Science-Society Interface”. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 11 (98). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02561-6

Bschir,* K. & Lohse*, S. 2024 “Taking Pluralism Seriously: A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Policy”. Science and Public Policy 51(3), 553–556. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scad074

Bschir*, K., Knobloch*, J. & Lohse*, S. 2023. “Post-COVID-19: Auf dem Weg zu einem integrativen Modell der wissensbasierten Politikberatung [Post-COVID-19: Towards an integrative model of knowledge-based policy advice]”. In: Wissensproduktion und Wissenstransfer in Zeiten der Pandemie [Knowledge production and transfer in times of pandemic], ed. R. Hauswald & P. Schmechtig. Alber:  81-116.

Lohse, S. 2023. “Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) Not Be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory”. In A. du Crest et al. (eds.), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism (pp. 333–351). Springer International. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3_15

Lohse, S. 2023. “Mapping Uncertainty in Precision Medicine. A Scoping Review”. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 29 (3), 554-564. doi.org/10.1111/jep.13789

Bschir*, K. & Lohse*, S. 2022. “Pandemics, Policy, and Pluralism. A Feyerabend-inspired Perspective on COVID-19”. Synthese 200, 441. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03923-4

Lohse, S. & Canali, S. 2021. “Follow the Science? On the (Marginal) Role of the Social Sciences in the COVID-19 pandemic”. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (99). doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00416-y

Lohse, S. 2021. “Scientific Inertia in Animal-based Research in Biomedicine”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 89, 41-51. doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.06.016

Lohse S. & Bschir, K. 2021. ”Wider die Einseitigkeit: Ein Plädoyer für mehr Pluralismus in der öffentlichen Gesundheitspolitik [Against One-sided Expertise: a Plea for More Pluralism in Public Health Policy]“. Soziopolis. Gesellschaft beobachten. https://soziopolis.de/beobachten/gesellschaft/artikel/wider-die-einseitigkeit

Lohse, S. 2021. “Ontological Investigations of a Pragmatic Kind? A Reply to Lauer”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 51(1): 3-12 (part of a co-organised Symposium on Social Ontology), doi.org/10.1177/0048393120916134

Lohse, S. & Bschir, K. 2020. “The COVID-19 Pandemic: A case for Epistemic Pluralism in Public Health Policy”. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42(58).
doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00353-8

Lohse, S., Wasmer, M. & Reydon, T. 2020. “Integrating Philosophy of Science into Research on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Life Sciences”. Perspectives on Science 28(6): 700-736. doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00357

Bschir, K., Lohse, S. & Chang, H. 2019. ”Introduction: Systematicity, the Nature of Science?”, In: Systematicity: The Nature of Science? Synthese – Special Issue: 196(3), 761-773. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1685-z

Lohse, S. 2017. “Die Multiparadigmatik der Soziologie als Erklärungsgegenstand einer integrierten Wissenschaftsforschung [The Multiparadigmatic Nature of Sociology as a Subject Matter of Integrated Science Studies]”. Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie 6(2): 237-246. doi.org/10.17879/zts-2017-4150

Lohse, S. & Greve, J. 2017. “Philosophie der Soziologie [Philosophy of Sociology]”, In: Grundriss Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Die Philosophien der Einzelwissenschaften, ed. Lohse, S. & Reydon, T. Meiner: 543-582

Lohse, S. 2017. “Pragmatism, Ontology, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Practice”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 47:1, 3-27. doi.org/10.1177/004839311665486

Hoyningen-Huene, P. & Lohse, S. 2013. “Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Incommensurability”, In: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, ed. Kaldis, B. SAGE: 524-528.

Hoyningen-Huene, P. & Lohse, S. 2012. “Die Kuhn´sche Wende [The Kuhnian Turn]”, In: Handbuch Wissenschaftssoziologie, ed. Maasen, S. et al. Springer VS: 73-84.

Hoyningen-Huene, P. & Lohse, S. 2012. “On Naturalizing Kuhn´s Essential Tension”, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Part A. 42: 215-219

Lohse, S. 2011. “Zur Emergenz des Sozialen bei Niklas Luhmann [On Niklas Luhmann’s Concept of Social Emergence]”, Zeitschrift für Soziologie 40: 190-207. doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2011-0302