Representative publications
Immunology
Books
Tauber, A. I. 2017. Immunity, the Evolution of an Idea. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gourko, H. Williamson, D.I. and Tauber, S.I. (eds, trans, annotated). 2000. The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Podolsky, S. H. and Tauber, A.I. 1997. The Generation of Diversity. Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Tauber, A. I. 1994. The Immune Self. Theory or Metaphor? New York: Oxford University Press.
Tauber, A. I. and Chernyak, L. 1991. Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology. From Metaphor to Theory, New York: Oxford University Press.
Tauber, A. I. (ed.) 1991. Organism and the Origins of Self. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Papers
Swiatczak, B. and Tauber AI. 2020. Philosophy of immunology, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immunology/
Gilbert, S.F. and Tauber, A.I. 2016. Rethinking individuality: The dialectics of the holobiont, Biology and Philosophy, 31: 839-53. DOI 10.1007/s10539-016-9541-3.
Tauber, A.I. 2016. Immunity in context: Science and society in dialogue, THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 31:207-224. DOI: 10.1387/theoria.14560
Tauber, A.I. 2015. Reconceiving autoimmunity: An overview, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 375: 52-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.05.029
Tauber, A.I. 2013. Immunology’s theories of cognition, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 35: 239-64.
Gilbert, S.H., Sapp, J., and Tauber, A.I. 2012. A symbiotic view of life: We have never been individuals, Quarterly Review of Biology, 87:325-41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668166?origin=JSTOR-pdf&
Tauber, A.I. 2008. The immune system and its ecology, Philosophy of Science, 75:224-45.
Tauber, AI. 2003. Metchnikoff and the phagocytosis theory, Nature Reviews, Molecular Cell Biology. 4:897-901.
Crist, E. and Tauber, A.I. 2001.The phagocyte, the antibody and agency in immunity: Contending turn-of-the-century approaches, in A.M. Moulin and A. Cambrosio (eds.), Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 115-39.
Tauber, A.I. 2000. Moving beyond the immune self? Seminars in Immunology. 12:241-48.
Crist, E. and Tauber, AI. 1999. Selfhood, immunity, and the biological imagination: The thought of Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Biology and Philosophy. 15:509-33.
Tauber, AI. 1999. The elusive immune self: A case of category errors. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 42:459-74.
Tauber, A.I. 1997. Historical and philosophical perspectives on immune cognition. Journal of the History of Biology 30: 419-440.
Crist, E. and Tauber, A.I. 1997. Debating humoral immunity and epistemology: The rivalry of the immunochemists Jules Bordet and Paul Ehrlich. Journal of the History of Biology 30: 321-356.
Tauber, AI. 1995. Postmodernism and the immune self. Science in Context. 8:579-607.
Tauber, A. I. and Podolsky, S.H. 1994. Macfarlane Burnet and the declaration of the immune self. Journal of the History of Biology 27: 531-573.
Tauber, A.I. 1992. The birth of immunology: The fate of the phagocytosis theory. Cellular Immunology 139:505-530.
Tauber, A.I. 1991. Introduction: Speculations on organism and the origins of Self, in A. I. Tauber (ed.), Organism and the Origins of Self, Dordrecht: Kluwer Acadeic Publishers, pp. 1-39.
Chernyak, L. and Tauber, A.I. 1990. The idea of immunity: Metchnikoff’s metaphysics and science, Journal of the History of Biology 23: 187-249.
Science studies
Books
Tauber, A.I. 2022. The Triumph of Uncertainty. Science and Self in the Postmodern Age. Budapest: Central European University Press.
Tauber, A.I. (ed.) 2009. Science and the Quest for Meaning. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
Tauber, A.I. (ed.) 1997 Science and the Quest for Reality. New York: New York University.
Tauber, A.I. (ed.) 1991. The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Acadeic Publishers.
Papers
Tauber, A.I. 2025. The View from Within: A Cognitivist Account, in Dialogues in Reason, The View from Within and Without, Z. Gutzeit and N. Efron (eds.), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
Tauber, A.I. 2007. Science and reason, reason and faith: A Kantian perspective, in Intelligent Design. Science or Religion? Critical Perspectives, R. M. Baird and S. E. Rosenbaum (eds.), Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 307-36.
Ben Jacob, E., Shapira, Y. and Tauber A.I. 2005. Seeking the foundations of cognition in bacteria: From Schrödinger’s negative entropy to functional information, Physica A, 359:495-524.
Tauber, A.I. 2000. A call for scientific literacy: The claims for public understanding, in Effects of Global Business on Scientific Research, M. Balaban and H-P Sambuc (eds.) Geneva: Science and Conscience of Man Foundation, pp. 61-84.
Tauber, A.I. 1999. Is biology a political science? BioScience. 49:479-86.
Podolsky, SH and Tauber, A.I. 1999. Nietzsche’s conception of health: The idealization of struggle, in Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II. edited by B. Babich. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 299-311.
Tauber, A.I. 1999. Book review essay of The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology, edited by Thomas Soderqvist. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. Science, Technology, and Human Values. 24:384-401.
Tauber, A.I. 1998. Ecology and the claims for a science-based ethics, in Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension. R.S. Cohen and A.I. Tauber, (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 185-206.Tauber, A.I. 1997. (ed.) Science and the Quest for Reality, New York University Press.
Tauber A.I. 1994. Darwinian aftershocks: Repercussions in late twentieth century medicine.Journal of the RoyalSociety of Medicine87:27-31.
Tauber A.I. 1993. Goethe’s philosophy of science: Modern resonances. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36:244-257.
Tauber AI, and Sarkar S. 1993. The ideological basis of the Human Genome Project. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 86:537-540.
Tauber AI, and Sarkar S. 1992. The Human Genome Project: Has blind reductionism gone too far?Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 35:220-235.
Psychology
Books
Tauber, A.I. 2025. William James and Sigmund Freud on the Mind. Saving Subjectivity. New York: Routledge.
Tauber, A.I. 2013. Requiem for the Ego. Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism. Stanford: Stanford University Press
Tauber, A.I. 2010. Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Papers
Tauber, A.I. 2025. Freud and the problem of moral agency, in D. J. Byrd and S. J. Miri (eds.), Sigmund Freud as a Critical Social Theorist: Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic in Contemporary Society, Brill and Haymarket.
Tauber, A.I. 2023. The psychoanalytic das Ich: Lost in translation, in The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, A. Govrin and T. Caspi (eds.), Routledge, pp. 359-73.
Tauber, A. I. 2015. ‘The Other’ within: Freud’s representation of the mind, in Psychology and the Other. A Dialogue at the Crossroad of an Emerging Field, D. Goodman and M. Freeman (eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 71-93.
Tauber, A.I. 2015. Entre réalité et désirs, l’humanisme freudien reconsidéré, Passages, 181: 29-34.
Tauber, A.I. 2014. The rational unconscious: The Freudian mind reconsidered, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 20:255-59.
Tauber, A.I. 2013. Freud without Oedipus: The cognitive unconscious, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 20:231-41.
Tauber, A. I. 2012. Freud’s social theory: Modernist and postmodernist revisions, History of the Human Sciences, 25:41-70. doi:10.1177/0952695112460045
Tauber, A. I. 2013. Freud and social theory, in G. Claeys (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, Sage Publications, Vol. 1, pp. 321-5.
Tauber, A.I. 2010. Freud’s defense of reason. Response to Johan Eriksson’s “Freud and Philosophy,” The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 33: 151-7.
Tauber, A. I. 2009. Freud’s dreams of reason: The Kantian structure of psychoanalysis, History of the Human Sciences, 22:1-29.
Tauber, A.I. 2009. Freud’s philosophical path: From a science of the mind to a philosophy of human being, The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 32:32-43.
Ethics
Books
Tauber, A.I. 2005. Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. Cambridge: The MIT Press
Tauber, A.I. 1999. Confessions of a Medicine Man. An Essay in Popular Philosophy. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Papers
Tauber, A.I. 2017. Medicine’s humanism Part 1: Philosophical and historical underpinnings, in J. Marcum (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion of Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, Bloomsbury Press, pp.162-81.
Tauber A.I. 2014. Book review essay of The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by M. Düwell, J. Braarvig, R. Brownsword, and D. Mieth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 57: 560-8.
Tauber, A.I. 2008. Medicine and the call for a moral epistemology, Part II: Constructing a synthesis of values, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51:450-63.
Tauber, A.I. 2006. Seeking medicine’s moral glue. American Journal of Bioethics. 6: 41-4.
Tauber, A.I. 2006. The moral domain of the medical record: The routine ethics evaluation. American Journal of Bioethics. 6:W1-W16, 2006.
Cooper, R.A. and Tauber, A.I. 2005. New physicians for a new century. Academic Medicine 80:1086-8.
Tauber, A.I. 2005. Medicine and the call for a moral epistemology. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:42-53.
Tauber, A.I. 2003. Sick autonomy. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 46:484-95.
Tauber, A.I. 2003. Medical ethics, in Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, J. W. V. van Huyssteen, N. R. Howell, N. H. Gregersen, W. J.Wildman, (eds.). New York: Macmillan, pp. 548-52.
Tauber, A.I. 2003. Autonomy gone mad. Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 10:75-80.
Tauber, A.I. 2003. A philosophical approach to rationing. Australian Journal of Medicine. 178:456-8.
Tauber, A. I. 2002. The ethical imperative of holism in medicine, in Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences, M. H. V. Van Regenmortel and D.L. Hull (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, pp. 261-78
Tauber, A.I. 2002. Putting ethics into the medical record. Annals of Internal Medicine. 136:559-563. Letter of response to comment: 137:933, 2002. Critical correspondence: 137:932-3, 2002.
Tauber, A.I. 2002. The quest for holism in medicine, in The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Accommodating Pluralism, D. Callahan (ed.)., Georgetown University Press, pp. 172-89.
Tauber, A.I. 2002. Medicine, public health and the ethics of rationing. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 45:16-30.
Tauber, A.I. 2001. Le role de Nietzsche dans l’elebaration de l’utopie medicale, in L’utopie de la Sante Parfaite, L. Sfez (ed.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, pp. 29-37.
Tauber, A.I. 2001. Historical and philosophical reflections on patient autonomy. Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care Philosophy and Policy 9:299-319.
Tauber, A.I. 1998. Outside the subject: Levinas’s Jewish perspective on time. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (New School for Social Research, N.Y.), 20/21:439-59.
Tauber A.I. 1995. On the transvaluation of values: Nietzsche contra Foucault, in Science, Mind and Art. Papers in Honor of Robert Cohen, K. Gavroglu and M. Wartovsky (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 349-367.
American transcendentalism
Books
Tauber, A.I. 2001. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Papers
Tauber, A.I. Thoreau and James, Romantics in arms: Saving experience, M. Jolly (ed.) In press.
Tauber, A.I. 2014. On the quandary of dreaming frogs: Deciphering Thoreau’s philosophical engagement, The Concord Saunterer, 22:52-74.
Tauber, A. I. 2012. Thoreau’s moral-epistemology and its contemporary relevance, Thoreau’s Importance for Philosophy, R. A Furtak, J. Ellsworth, and J. D. Reid (eds.), Fordham University Press, pp. 127-42.
Tauber, A.I. 2008. Emerson. American Philosophy, An Encyclopedia. J. Lachs and R. Talisse (eds.), Routledge, pp. 218-21.
Tauber, A.I. 2006. The reflexive project: Reconstructing the moral agent. History of the Human Sciences, 18:49-75, 2006.
Tauber, A.I. 2003. The philosopher as prophet: The case of Emerson and Thoreau. Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 10:89-103.
