Papers

Kaiser M. I., Morrow K. H. (2025): On the Epistemic Roles of the Individualized Niche Concept in Ecology, Behavioral Biology, and Evolutionary Biology. Philosophy of Science 92(1): 162-184. (open access)

Heger T., Elliott-Graves A., Kaiser M. I., et al. (2025): Looking beyond Popper: How philosophy can be relevant to ecology. Oikos 2025(2): e10994. (open access)

Kaiser M. I., Killin A., Abendroth A.-K., et al. (2024): Individualisation and Individualised Science Across Disciplinary Perspectives. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14: 41. (open access)

Kaiser M. I., Gadau J., Kaiser S., et al. (2024): Individualized social niches in animals: Theoretical clarifications and processes of niche change. BioScience 74: 146-158. (open access)

Malsch A. K. F., Killin A., Kaiser M. I. (2024): Health-Oriented Environmental Categories, Individual Health Environments, and the Concept of Environment in Public Health. Health Care Analysis 32: 141-164. (open access)

Trappes R., Nematipour B., Kaiser M. I., et al. (2022): How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance. BioScience 72(6): 538-548. (open access)

Kaiser M. I., Müller C. (2021): What Is an Animal Personality? Biology & Philosophy 36(1). (open access)

Kaiser M. I., Trappes R. (2021): Broadening the Problem Agenda of Biological Individuality: Individual Differences, Uniqueness, and Temporality. Biology & Philosophy 36(2). (open access)

Kaiser M. I. (2019): Interdisziplinarität und die Philosophie. Stellungnahmen von Marie I. Kaiser und Albert Newen. Information Philosophie 2: 50-55. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2019): Normativity in the Philosophy of Science. Metaphilosophy 50 (1-2): 36-62. (open access)

Kaiser M. I. (2018): ENCODE and the Parts of the Human Genome. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 72: 28-37. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Krickel B. (2017): The Metaphysics of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68(3): 745-779. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2016): On the Limits of Causal Modeling: Spatially-Structurally Complex Biological Phenomena. Philosophy of Science 83: 921-933. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Meunier R., Kronfeldner M. (2016): Problems and Prospects of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Philosophy of Science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 41(1): 61-70. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Meunier R., Kronfeldner M. (2015): Problems and Prospects of Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: A Report from the Workbench. Briefe zur Interdisziplinarität 15, 32-41. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Meunier R., Kronfeldner M. (2014): Interdisciplinarity in Philosophy of Science. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 45: 59-70. (.pdf)

Netzwerk für Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften in Deutschland (2013): Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften. Entwicklungen und Tendenzen. Information Philosophie 4: 14-27. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2011): Limits of Reductionism in the Life Sciences. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33: 453-476. (.pdf)

Hundertmark F., Ferreria Ruiz M., Kaiser M. I., Suárez J. (2025): Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences. Extrinsicality, Multi-levelness, and Processuality, in: Hüttemann A., Schurz G. (eds.): Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects. Routledge. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Suarez, J. (2025): Metaphysics of Scientific Practice. in: Currie A., Veigl S. (eds.): Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User’s Guide. MIT Press. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Krickel B. (2025): Individuation of Cross-Cutting Causal Systems in Cognitive Science and Behavioral Ecology, in: Illari P. K., Russo F. (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods. New York: Routledge, 202-214. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Trappes R. (2023): Individual-Level Mechanisms in Ecology and Evolution, in: Bausman W., Baxter J. K., Lean O. M. (eds.): From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 116-152. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2021): Explanation in Evo-Devo, in: de la Rosa L. N., Müller G. B. (eds.): Evolutionary Developmental Biology – A Reference Guide. Cham: Springer, 357-370. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2020): Was ist gute Wissenschaft? Philip Kitcher, in: Müller-Salo J. (ed.): Analytische Philosophie. Eine Einführung in 16 Fragen und Antworten. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 111-123. (pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2018): Individuating Part-whole Relations in the Biological World, in: Bueno O., Chen R.-L., Fagan M. B. (eds.): Individuation, Process and Scientific Practices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 63-87. (.pdf)

Hüttemann A., Kaiser M. I. (2018): Potentiality in Biology, in: Engelhard K., Quante M. (eds.): Handbook of Potentiality. Dordrecht: Springer, 401-427. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2018): The Components and Boundaries of Mechanisms, in: Glennan S., Illari P. (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 116-130. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2017): Biological Parts, in: Burkhardt H., Seibt J., Imaguire G., Gerogiorgakis S. (eds.): Handbook of Mereology. München: Philosophia, 97-100. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2017): Themen aus den Lebenswissenschaften, in: Schrenk M. (ed.): Handbuch Metaphysik. Stuttgart: Metzler, 325-330. (.pdf)

Gebharter A., Kaiser M. I. (2014): Causal Graphs and Biological Mechanisms, in: Kaiser M. I., Scholz O., Plenge D., Hüttemann A. (eds.): Explanation in the Special Sciences – The Case of Biology and History. Dordrecht: Springer, 55-86. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Plenge D. (2014): Introduction: Points of Contact between Biology and History, in: Kaiser, M. I., Scholz O., Plenge D., Hüttemann A. (eds.): Explanation in the Special Sciences – The Case of Biology and History. Dordrecht: Springer, 1-23. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2014): L’explication en biologie, in: Merlin F., Hoquet T. (eds.): Précis de Philosophie de la biologie. Paris: Vuibert Press, 143-155. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Craver C. F. (2013): Mechanisms and Laws: Clarifying the Debate, in: Chao H.-K., Chen S.-T., Millstein R. (eds.): Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics. Dordrecht: Springer, 125-145. (.pdf)

Jung E.-M., Kaiser M. I., Seide A. (2013): Well-Ordered Philosophy? Reflections on Kitcher’s Proposal for a Renewal of Philosophy, in: Kaiser M. I., Seide A. (eds.): Philip Kitcher – Pragmatic Naturalism. Frankfurt/ Main: ontos, 161-174. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2013): Complexity, in: Dubitzky W., Wolkenhauer O., Cho K.-H., Yokota H. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, Vol. X. New York: Springer, 456-460. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2013): Reduction, in: Dubitzky W., Wolkenhauer O., Cho K.-H., Yokota H. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, Vol. X. New York: Springer, 1827-1830. (.pdf)

Hüttemann A., Kaiser M. I. (2013): Disposition, in: Dubitzky W., Wolkenhauer O., Cho K.-H., Yokota H. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, Vol. X. New York: Springer, 594-597. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2012): Why It Is Time to Move Beyond Nagelian Reduction, in: Dieks D., Gonzalez W. J., Hartmann S., Stöltzner M., Weber M. (eds.): Probabilities, Laws, and Structures. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Vol. 3. Heidelberg: Springer, 255-272. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I. (2010): Der evolutionäre Naturalismus in der Ethik, in: Oehler J. (ed.): Der Mensch – Evolution, Natur und Kultur: Beiträge zu unserem heutigen Menschenbild. Berlin: Springer, 261-283. (.pdf)

Göhner J., Kaiser M. I., Suhm C. (2008): Is Simplicity an Adequate Criterion of Theory Choice?, in: Mößner N., Schmoranzer S., Weidemann C. (eds.): Richard Swinburne. Frankfurt/Main: ontos, 33-45. (.pdf)

Kaiser M. I., Rosenhagen R., Suhm C. (2006): Experience Becoming Fully Literate. Van Fraassen on the Verge of Constuctivism, in: Berg-Hildebrand A., Suhm C. (eds.): The Philosophy of Bas C. van Fraassen. Frankfurt/Main: ontos, 69-79. (.pdf)

Backmann M., Berg-Hildebrand A., Kaiser M. I., Pohl M., Rosenhagen R., Suhm C. (2005): Pragmatism, Realism, and Science, in: Vieth A. (ed.): Richard Rorty. His Philosophy under Discussion. Frankfurt/Main: ontos, 65-78. (.pdf)

Morrow K. H., van den Bos M., Elliott-Graves A., Kaiser M. I. (2024): Individual-Based Research: Concepts, Epistemology and Integration. OSF, DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/X3HSJ (open access)

Krüger O., Caspers B., Chakarov N., Elliott-Graves A., Kaiser M. I., et al. (2021): Individualised Niches: An Integrative Conceptual Framework Across Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution, EcoEvoRxiv, DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/7h5xq (open access)

Kaiser, M. I. (2019): Scott Lidgard; Lynn K. Nyhart, eds. Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives, in: Isis 110: 146-147. (pdf)

Kaiser, M. I. (2015): Philosophy of Microbiology, in: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29: 224-228. (.pdf)

Kaiser, M. I. (2014): Causality in the Biological Sciences, 17 January, in: The Reasoner 8(3): 28-29. (.pdf)

Kaiser, M. I. (2012): An Ontic Account of Explanatory Reduction in Biology, PhD thesis, University of Cologne (published online via KUPS)