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.

​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

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.