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Chimisso, Cristina (2019). Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945. Abingdon: Routledge.

Chimisso, Cristina (2008). Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s. Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Chimisso, Cristina (2001). Gaston Bachelard: critic of science and the imagination. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, 9. London and New York: Routledge.

Chimisso, Cristina (2019). L’oggetto impuro dell’epistemologia storica di Georges Canguilhem. In: Lupi, Fiorenza and Pilotto, Stefano eds. Infrangere le norme: vita, scienza e tecnica nel pensiero di Georges Canguilhem. Milan: Mimesis, pp. 11–29.

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Chimisso, Cristina (2019). Voyage vers le matérialisme : François Dagognet et l’évolution de l’épistémologie historique [A journey towards materialism: François Dagognet and the evolution of historical epistemology]. In: Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Braunstein, Jean-François and Gayon, Jean eds. François Dagognet : Philosophe, épistémologue. Éditions Materiologiques, pp. 25–35.

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Chimisso, Cristina (2017). Gaston Bachelard's Places of the Imagination and Images of Space. In: Janz, Bruce B. ed. Place, Space and Hermeneutics. Springer, pp. 183–195.

Chimisso, Cristina (2014). Commentary on Anastasios Brenner's 'Epistemology Historicized'. In: Galavotti, Maria Carla; Dieks, Dennis; Gonzalez, Wenceslao J.; Hartmann, Stephan; Uebel, Thomas and Weber, Marcel eds. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective (5). Springer, pp. 737–746.

Chimisso, Cristina (2013). The life sciences and French philosophy of science: Georges Canguilhem on norms. In: Andersen, H.; Dieks, D.; Gonzalez, W. J.; Uebel, T. and Wheeler, G. eds. New Challenges to Philosophy of Science. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, 4. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 399–409.

Chimisso, Cristina (2013). Gaston Bachelard e le lezioni filosofiche della chimica. In: Bonicalzi, Francesca; Mottana, Paolo; Vinti, Carlo and Wunenburger, Jean-Jacques eds. Bachelard e la ‘provocazioni’ della materia. Genova: Il Nuovo Melangolo, pp. 93–104.

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Chimisso, Cristina (2013). A matter of substance? Gaston Bachelard on chemistry's philosophical lessons. In: Galavotti, Maria Carla; Nemeth, Elisabeth and Stadler, Friederich eds. European Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 17. Springer, pp. 33–44.

Chimisso, Cristina (2010). Aspects of current history of philosophy of science in the French tradition. In: Stadler, Friedrich ed. The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 41–56.

Chimisso, Cristina (2004). La ragione scientifica e la pedagogia nel Lautréamont di Bachelard. In: Vinti, Carlo and Bonicalzi, Francesca eds. Ri-cominciare: Percorsi e attualità dell’opera di Gaston Bachelard. Di fronte e attraverso , filosofia. Milan, Italy: Jaka Books, pp. 111–122.

Chimisso, Cristina and Jardine, Nicholas (2021). Hélène Metzger on Precursors: A Historian and Philosopher of Science Confronts Her Evil Demon. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 11(2) (Early access).

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Chimisso, Cristina (2015). Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem’s concept of scientific ideology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54 pp. 64–73.

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Chimisso, Cristina (2011). Fleeing dictatorship: socialism, sexuality and the history of science in the life of Aldo Mieli. History Workshop Journal, 72(1) pp. 30–51.

Chimisso, Cristina (2008). From phenomenology to phenomenotechnique: the role of early twentieth-century physics in Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 39(3) pp. 384–392.

Chimisso, Cristina (2006). The identity and routes of philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 37(2) pp. 353–360.

Chimisso, Cristina (2005). Constructing narratives and reading texts: Approaches to history and power struggles between philosophy and emergent disciplines in inter-war France. History of the Human Sciences, 18(3) pp. 83–107.

Chimisso, Cristina (2005). Bachelard and the History of the Mind. PLI The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 16 pp. 171–185.

Chimisso, Cristina (2003). The tribunal of philosophy and its norms: History and philosophy in Georges Canguilhem's historical epistemology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 34(2) pp. 297–327.

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Chimisso, Cristina and Freudenthal, Gad (2003). A Mind of her Own: Helene Metzger to Emile Meyerson, 1933. Isis, 94(3) pp. 477–491.

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Chimisso, Cristina (2001). Helene Metzger: The history of science between the study of mentalities and total history. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 32(2) pp. 203–241.

Chimisso, Cristina (2000). The mind and the faculties: the controversy over 'primitive mentality' and the struggle for disciplinary space at the interwar Sorbonne. History of the Human Sciences, 13(3) pp. 47–68.

Chimisso, C. (2017) Bachelard, Gaston (1884-1962). in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 1-4.