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New - Axel Gelfert: “Indefensible Middle Ground for Local Reductionism about Testimony”, Ratio (forthcoming)
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Axel Gelfert: “Rigorous Results, Cross-Model Justification, and the Transfer of Empirical Warrant: The Case of Many-Body Models in Physics”, Synthese (forthcoming, 2008)
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Axel Gelfert: “Mathematical rigor in physics: Putting exact results in their place”, Philosophy of Science Vol. 72 (2005) No. 4 (published February 2007), pp. 723-738
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Axel Gelfert: Critical notice of Tamás Demeter (ed.), Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy: In Honour of J.C. Nyíri, in: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy Vol. 10 ('Philosophy of Mind', 2007) pp. 206-211
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Axel Gelfert: “Kant on testimony”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 14 No. 4 (2006) pp. 627-652
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Axel Gelfert: “Aufklärung/informed consent”, “Forensik”, “Lebensqualität”, “Placebo”, “Prion”, “Simulation” (Encyclopedia articles), in: Literatur und Medizin. Ein Lexikon, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005

Axel Gelfert and Martin Vogt: “Nobelpreise zählen ist nicht genug: Ein Plädoyer für die Lehre” in: Berliner Republik Vol. 7, No. 3 (May/June 2005) pp. 12-13

Axel Gelfert: Critical notice of Richard Foley's Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others, in: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy Vol. 8 ('History of Epistemology', 2005) pp. 220-227
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Axel Gelfert: “Das Zweifelhafte und das Pathologische: Skeptizismus zwischen Therapie, philosophischer Krankheit und Bioethik”, in: Bettina v. Jagow/Florian Steger (Hrsg.), Repräsentationen: Medizin und Ethik in Literatur und Kunst der Moderne, Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag 2004. pp. 115-140
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Axel Gelfert: “Manipulative Success and the Unreal”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 No. 3 (2003) pp. 245-263
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Axel Gelfert: “Zeugnis und Differenz. Über die Epistemologie des Beim-Wort-Nehmens und In-Erfahrung-Bringens”, in: Bettina v. Jagow/Florian Steger (Hrsg.), Differenzerfahrung und Selbst. Bewußtsein und Wahrnehmung in Literatur und Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag 2003. pp. 123-140
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Axel Gelfert: “Random Realism”, Navigationen: Siegener Beiträge zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft 3 No. 1 (2003) 113-118
First published in Foreign Policy in Focus, 15 July 2002

Paul Nillesen and Axel Gelfert: “Perception and prejudice. Uncertainty and the investment in gender”, Economic and Political Weekly 37 No. 43 (26 October 2002) 4382-4389
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Axel Gelfert: “European Pastoral: Joseph Roth and the idea of Central Europe”, Europa Magazine No. 4 (Summer 2002) 24-27.

Axel Gelfert and Wolfgang Nolting: “The absence of finite-temperature phase transitions in low-dimensional many-body models: a survey and new results” (Topical review), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 13 (2001) R505-R524
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Axel Gelfert: “Back to the future” (Book review of F. Dyson: The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet, and of M. Kaku: Visions), Science and Public Policy, 28 (June 2001) 230-232.

Axel Gelfert: “On the role of dimensionality in many-body theories of magnetic long-range order”, arXiv Los Alamos e-archives (2001) cond-mat/0106031, 1-100.
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Axel Gelfert and Wolfgang Nolting: “Absence of a Magnetic Phase Transition in Heisenberg, Hubbard, and Kondo-lattice Films”, physica status solidi (b), 217 (2000) 805-818.
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