Tim Lewens

2.0k total citations
61 papers, 932 citations indexed

About

Tim Lewens is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Lewens has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 932 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tim Lewens's work include Philosophy and History of Science (19 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (17 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (16 papers). Tim Lewens is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (19 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (17 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (16 papers). Tim Lewens collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Sudan. Tim Lewens's co-authors include André Ariew, Denis M. Walsh, Mary Midgley, John Dupré, Michael Ruse, Gregory Radick, Anthony O’Hear, Michael Wheeler, Matthew Ratcliffe and Giovanni Boniolo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

In The Last Decade

Tim Lewens

58 papers receiving 842 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Lewens United Kingdom	15	448	434	262	147	115	61	932
Ron Amundson United States	12	455 1.0×	288 0.7×	226 0.9×	132 0.9×	38 0.3×	30	1.2k
André Ariew United States	13	666 1.5×	531 1.2×	439 1.7×	92 0.6×	35 0.3×	22	1.0k
Karola Stotz Australia	19	336 0.8×	177 0.4×	207 0.8×	240 1.6×	72 0.6×	29	1.0k
Pierrick Bourrat Australia	16	249 0.6×	504 1.2×	380 1.5×	65 0.4×	39 0.3×	61	831
C. Kenneth Waters United States	15	548 1.2×	253 0.6×	185 0.7×	77 0.5×	16 0.1×	28	898
Philippe Huneman France	17	378 0.8×	206 0.5×	140 0.5×	85 0.6×	20 0.2×	84	876
Grant Ramsey Belgium	16	192 0.4×	246 0.6×	188 0.7×	57 0.4×	51 0.4×	46	654
Thomas A. C. Reydon Germany	16	271 0.6×	151 0.3×	93 0.4×	79 0.5×	14 0.1×	62	671
Jesper Hoffmeyer Denmark	16	236 0.5×	179 0.4×	37 0.1×	221 1.5×	134 1.2×	38	1.0k
Lily E. Kay United States	13	284 0.6×	112 0.3×	162 0.6×	64 0.4×	20 0.2×	20	916

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watson, Richard A., Michael Levin, & Tim Lewens. (2025). Evolution by natural induction II: further interactions with natural selection. Interface Focus. 15(6).

Watson, Richard A., Michael Levin, & Tim Lewens. (2025). Evolution by natural induction. Interface Focus. 15(6). 1 indexed citations

Lewens, Tim. (2025). Towards a Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science. Philosophy of Science. 92(4). 850–867. 1 indexed citations

Buckley, Christopher L., Tim Lewens, Michael Levin, et al.. (2024). Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection. Entropy. 26(9). 765–765. 4 indexed citations

Lewens, Tim. (2019). Neo-Paleyan biology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 76. 101185–101185. 5 indexed citations

Lewens, Tim. (2019). Blurring the germline: Genome editing and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Bioethics. 34(1). 7–15. 10 indexed citations

Lewens, Tim. (2015). Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press eBooks. 94 indexed citations

Lewens, Tim. (2015). The nature of philosophy and the philosophy of nature. Biology & Philosophy. 30(4). 587–596. 4 indexed citations

Lewens, Tim. (2013). From bricolage to BioBricks™: Synthetic biology and rational design. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 44(4). 641–648. 12 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2012). Species, essence and explanation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 43(4). 751–757. 17 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2011). Pheneticism reconsidered. Biology & Philosophy. 27(2). 159–177. 5 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2010). Natural selection then and now. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 85(4). 829–835. 19 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2009). Evo‐devo and “typological thinking”: an exculpation. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 312B(8). 789–796. 9 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2009). Enhancement and human nature: the case of Sandel. Journal of Medical Ethics. 35(6). 354–356. 10 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2007). Darwinism and Metaphysics. Metascience. 16(1). 61–69. 1 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2006). Distinguishing treatment from research: a functional approach. Journal of Medical Ethics. 32(7). 424–429. 13 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2005). What is Darwinian Naturalism?. Biology & Philosophy. 20(4). 901–912. 2 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim & John McMillan. (2004). Defining disease. The Lancet. 363(9409). 664–664. 3 indexed citations

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Lewens, Tim. (2004). What is genethics?. Journal of Medical Ethics. 30(3). 326–328. 4 indexed citations

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Walsh, Denis M., Tim Lewens, & André Ariew. (2002). The Trials of Life: Natural Selection and Random Drift. Philosophy of Science. 69(3). 452–473. 163 indexed citations

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