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Isis Vol. 101, No. S1, December 2010 (Volume Supplement) is now available online

Table of Contents Alert    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Isis    Vol. 101, No. S1, December 2010 2010 Current Bibliography    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    The above issue is now available online from jstor    at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/660769    Your jstor username is: Perdiguero    The table of contents for this issue is listed below. Click on the links    below to view the abstract for each article, or click on the link above    to read the table of contents online.    If you wish to update your preferences, please visit:    http://www.jstor.org/action/showAlertSettings    If you need any further help, please visit http://www.jstor.org    and click on "help".    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural    Influences, 2010    Isis, Vol. 101, No. S1: i-305.

CFP: Compensations: claims, assessments and public policy, a forthcoming special issue of Histoire & Mesure

The peer-referred journal Histoire & Mesure is planning a study day and a special issue on the topic of reparations and compensations. The journal is calling for papers about reparations and the methods of compensation after the destruction or destitution of private or collective property (monuments, buildings, regions). This topic will be considered with reference to the role and action of public authorities (political, military, or any other collective organisation) involved in the process of assessing and compensating, partially of fully, claims for compensation. While this call for papers is open to inter-disciplinary approaches, including legal, economic and cultural aspects, proposals are expected to specifically address the methods used or developed for assessing claims. Authors might want to investigate the initial procedures for dealing with claims: are criterias/methods for assessing/evaluating the destructions and damages specifically devised to start the procedure

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science – &HPS4

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science – &HPS4 Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Greece March 15-18, 2012 Keynote speakers : Jed Z. Buchwald (California Institute of Technology) Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University) Call for Papers We invite the submission of individual paper abstracts for &HPS4, the fourth of a series of international conferences under the general heading of "Integrated History and Philosophy of Science". We solicit contributions that exemplify the combination of historical and philosophical analysis of science or discuss the possibilities and merits of integrated HPS as a scholarly endeavor. In light of the 50 th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions , we also welcome submissions that discuss Kuhn’s classic and its continuing relevance for integrating HPS. Proposals for papers (in either word or pdf format) should include: ·        Title and abstract of the p

Osiris Vol. 26, No. 1, 2011 is now available online

Table of Contents Alert    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Osiris    Vol. 26, No. 1, 2011 Klima    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    The above issue is now available online from jstor    at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/661286    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Introduction: Revisiting Klima    James Rodger Fleming , Vladimir Jankovic    Osiris, Vol. 26, No. 1: 1-15.    http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/661262    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Natural Laboratories    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of    Human-Caused Climate Change in South America    Gregory T. Cushman    Osiris, Vol. 26, No. 1: 16-44.    http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/661263    --------------------------