Publication of issue 19.1 of Metascience
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 19.1 of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
http://www.springerlink.com/content/111724/
In this issue:
Book Symposia
A new perspective on objectivity and conventionalism
Talal A. Debs & Michael L. G. Redhead: Objectivity, invariance and
convention: symmetry in physical science.
Symposiasts: Antigone M. Nounou, Mauro Dorato, Sebastian Lutz, Stephan
Hartmann, Talal A. Debs and Michael L. G. Redhead
With great power comes great responsibility
John Forge: The responsible scientist: a philosophical inquiry.
Symposiasts: Bernard Gert, Nicholas Evans, Heather Douglas and John Forge
Survey Reviews
· From the monochrome to the multi-hued: towards an anarchic
historiography of science and religion
R. P. Whaite
· The book and the crucible: chemists in search of recognition
Antonio Clericuzio
· Medieval medicine
Vivian Nutton
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
Thematic sections on
Science and Religion
History and Philosophy of Chemistry
History and Philosophy of Medicine
Highlights of Reviews
A coherent collection in defense of realism
Stathis Psillos: Knowing the structure of nature, by Igor Douven
A panorama of the history of science
Patricia Fara: Science: a four thousand year history, by D. M. Knight
An epic story of the long nineteenth century
David Knight: The making of modern science: science, technology, medicine
and modernity: 1789–1914 by Patricia Fara
What clocks tell us
Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift: Shaping the Day: a history of timekeeping
in England and Wales 1300–1800, by Stephen Gaukroger
Spanish renaissance cosmography: modest or modern?
María M. Portuondo: Secret science: Spanish cosmography and the new world,
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
In the website of Metascience you can also have access to forthcoming
reviews that appear online first.
Some of the forthcoming reviews:
Book Symposia
Protecting rainforest realism
James Ladyman & Don Ross: Everything must go: metaphysics naturalized.
Symposiasts: P. Kyle Stanford, Paul Humphreys, Katherine Hawley, James
Ladyman and Don Ross
Regress and rhetoric at the Tuscan court
Luciano Boschiero: Experiment and natural philosophy in
seventeenth-century Tuscany: the history of the accademia del cimento.
Symposiasts: Marco Beretta, Mordechai Feingold, Paula Findlen and Luciano
Boschiero
Reviews
Causation and powers in the seventeenth century
Walter Ott: Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy, by P.
J. E. Kail
Mathematical and aesthetic aspects of symmetry
G. Hon, B. R. Goldstein: From summetria to symmetry: the making of a
revolutionary scientific concept, by Katherine Brading
A view from Sydney: how to Stove the enemies of science
James Franklin: What science knows and how it knows it, by Howard Sankey
Mesopotamian mathematics
Eleanor Robson: Mathematics in ancient Iraq. A social history, by Piedad
Yuste
Understanding conceptual innovation in science
Nancy Nersessian: Creating scientific concepts, by Harold I. Brown
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Costas Mannouris
Assistant Editor of Metascience
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
University of Athens
University Campus
Athens 157 71
Greece
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
http://www.springerlink.com/content/111724/
In this issue:
Book Symposia
A new perspective on objectivity and conventionalism
Talal A. Debs & Michael L. G. Redhead: Objectivity, invariance and
convention: symmetry in physical science.
Symposiasts: Antigone M. Nounou, Mauro Dorato, Sebastian Lutz, Stephan
Hartmann, Talal A. Debs and Michael L. G. Redhead
With great power comes great responsibility
John Forge: The responsible scientist: a philosophical inquiry.
Symposiasts: Bernard Gert, Nicholas Evans, Heather Douglas and John Forge
Survey Reviews
· From the monochrome to the multi-hued: towards an anarchic
historiography of science and religion
R. P. Whaite
· The book and the crucible: chemists in search of recognition
Antonio Clericuzio
· Medieval medicine
Vivian Nutton
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
Thematic sections on
Science and Religion
History and Philosophy of Chemistry
History and Philosophy of Medicine
Highlights of Reviews
A coherent collection in defense of realism
Stathis Psillos: Knowing the structure of nature, by Igor Douven
A panorama of the history of science
Patricia Fara: Science: a four thousand year history, by D. M. Knight
An epic story of the long nineteenth century
David Knight: The making of modern science: science, technology, medicine
and modernity: 1789–1914 by Patricia Fara
What clocks tell us
Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift: Shaping the Day: a history of timekeeping
in England and Wales 1300–1800, by Stephen Gaukroger
Spanish renaissance cosmography: modest or modern?
María M. Portuondo: Secret science: Spanish cosmography and the new world,
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
In the website of Metascience you can also have access to forthcoming
reviews that appear online first.
Some of the forthcoming reviews:
Book Symposia
Protecting rainforest realism
James Ladyman & Don Ross: Everything must go: metaphysics naturalized.
Symposiasts: P. Kyle Stanford, Paul Humphreys, Katherine Hawley, James
Ladyman and Don Ross
Regress and rhetoric at the Tuscan court
Luciano Boschiero: Experiment and natural philosophy in
seventeenth-century Tuscany: the history of the accademia del cimento.
Symposiasts: Marco Beretta, Mordechai Feingold, Paula Findlen and Luciano
Boschiero
Reviews
Causation and powers in the seventeenth century
Walter Ott: Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy, by P.
J. E. Kail
Mathematical and aesthetic aspects of symmetry
G. Hon, B. R. Goldstein: From summetria to symmetry: the making of a
revolutionary scientific concept, by Katherine Brading
A view from Sydney: how to Stove the enemies of science
James Franklin: What science knows and how it knows it, by Howard Sankey
Mesopotamian mathematics
Eleanor Robson: Mathematics in ancient Iraq. A social history, by Piedad
Yuste
Understanding conceptual innovation in science
Nancy Nersessian: Creating scientific concepts, by Harold I. Brown
Free Sample Copy
If you are not a current subscriber to the journal, click here to read a
free sample copy online.
Subscribers to a Springer publication are entitled to read the full-text
articles online in SpringerLink. For registration information please
contact your librarian or send us an e-mail:
In the Americas: springerlink-ny@springer.com
In all other countries: springerlink@springer.com
--
Costas Mannouris
Assistant Editor of Metascience
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
University of Athens
University Campus
Athens 157 71
Greece