Publications

Yoshida Y (2025) “Generalizing while embracing differences: Configurations of representations and cross-fertilization.” Synthese 206:9 [Preprint]

Love AC, Yoshida Y (2025) “Measuring cell movement: Concepts and quantification.” Developmental Biology 525: 172-184

Yoshida Y, Love AC (2025) “Mechanisms and principles: Two approaches to scientific generalization.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 15:26 [Preprint]

Yoshida Y (2023) “Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 99: 67-76

Yoshida Y (2021) “Multiple-models juxtaposition and trade-offs among modeling desiderata.” Philosophy of Science 88(1): 103-123 [preprint]

Love AC, Yoshida Y (2019) “Reflections on model organisms in evolutionary developmental biology.” In: W Tworzydlo, S Bilinski (eds) Evo-Devo: Non-model species in cell and developmental biology, pp. 3-20, Springer, Berlin

Yoshida Y, Nakao H (2015) “EvoDevo as a motley aggregation: Local integration and conflicting views of genes during the 1980s.” Biological Theory 10(2): 156-166

Work in Progress

Yoshida Y. “Varying protocols to generate comparable models.”

Yoshida Y, Leonelli S. “Specialization of stem cell biology and its downside.”

Presentations

Yoshida Y. “Protocol adjustments in cross-species comparisons of in vitro models: A conceptual discussion.” Developmental timing across species: From mechanisms to evolutionary insights. Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France, May 8, 2025

Yoshida Y. “Comparing inaccessible targets through biological modeling: The case of ape iPS cells.” German Society for Philosophy of Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany, March 24, 2025

Yoshida Y. “Interdisciplinarity and integration in Evo-Devo.” Japanese Society for Young Evo-Devo Researchers, Mishima Lodge, Kawasaki, Japan, March 12, 2025

Yoshida Y. “Evo-Devo seen from philosophy of science.” Japanese Society for Young Evo-Devo Researchers, October 6, 2024. Online

Yoshida Y. “Comparing inaccessible targets through biological modeling: The case of ape iPS cells.” British Society for Philosophy of Science, University of York, York, UK, July 19, 2024

Brunet T, Currie A, Yoshida Y. “Counterfactual natural history: Speculative evolution and the minimal rewrite rule.” Paleoscience Roadshow, July 2, 2024. Online

Yoshida Y, Leonelli S. “Specialization of stem cell biology and its downside: Three case studies.” Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, May 18, 2024

Yoshida Y. “Great ape iPS cells as a model system for human Evo-Devo.” Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, May 18, 2024

Yoshida Y. “Epistemology of non-human stem cell models: The case of ape iPS cells.” Understanding life in a changing planet: 20+ years of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences. Exeter, UK, April 18, 2024

Yoshida Y. “Cell culture systems and model organisms: Articulating the relationship.” Symposium–Model organisms: Materiality, history and politics, Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2024

“Mechanisms and principles: Two kinds of scientific generalization.” European Philosophy of Science Association, Belgrade, Serbia, September 22, 2023

Yoshida Y. “How are diverse biological mechanisms generalized? The case of collective cell migration.” Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, June, 20, 2023 (in Japanese)

“Mechanisms and principles: Two kinds of scientific generalization.” Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, USA, November 11, 2022

“Generalizations, visual representations, and mechanistic explanations.” Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, Ghent, Belgium, July 2, 2022

“Roles of scientific generalizations beyond explanation: The case of collective cell migration.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, online, July 19, 2021

“How scientific generalizations facilitate investigations.” Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, July, 2020 [conference canceled]

“Scientific generalizations seen through biological practices.” Philosophy Online Seminar, April, 26, 2020 (in Japanese)

“Where might developmental biology go?” Summer Symposium of Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists, Japan Amphibian Laboratory, Nikko, Japan, September, 2019 (in Japanese)

“Epistemic values, trade-offs, and multiple-models juxtaposition.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, July 8, 2019

“Characterizing and evaluating a rationalist approach to biology.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, July 21, 2017

“Is evolutionary developmental biology a theoretical synthesis?” The Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan, June 18, 2016 (in Japanese)

“‘Emerging concept’ in developmental biology.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, July 8, 2015

“Philosophy of developmental biology: From a historical perspective.” Meeting for young scholars of philosophy of science in Japan, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, September 27, 2014 (in Japanese)

“Evo-devo as a motley aggregation: Interdisciplinary studies during the 1980s.” [with Hisashi Nakao] Japan-Taiwan Philosophy and History of Biology Workshop, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, March 7, 2014

“Eco-evo-devo as a recovery of diversity.” Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, Hosei University, Chiyoda, Japan, November 24, 2013 (in Japanese)

“Theoretical and methodological diversity in the 1980s: Early development of evo-devo.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Université Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France, July 11, 2013

“An origin of evo-devo as an ‘extended’ synthesis: Morphological evolution independent of genetic changes.” Philosophy of Science Society, Japan, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, November 11, 2012 (in Japanese)

“Overlooked elements in the history of evo-devo: Studies of epigenetics in the 80s.” [with Hisashi Nakao] IHPST Paris-CAPE Kyoto, philosophy of biology workshop, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, November 4, 2012 (in Japanese)