Issue 21.2 of Metascience
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.2
of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
In this issue:
Book Symposia
If I could talk to the animals
Gregory Radick: The simian tongue: The long debate about
animal language.
Symposiasts: Thomas Suddendorf, Mark E. Borrello, Colin
Allen and Gregory Radick
Science and mathematics: the scope and limits of
mathematical fictionalism Mary Leng: Mathematics and reality.
Symposiasts: Christopher Pincock, Alan Baker, Alexander
Paseau and Mary Leng
Essay Reviews
• The
vicissitudes of mathematical reason in the 20th century
Thomas
Mormann
• The scope
of logical atomism
Graham Stevens
• Thomas
Brown: Negotiating a position between Hume and Reid
Ralph
Jessop
• How should
philosophy of social science proceed?
Harold
Kincaid
• Performances
and arguments
Harry
Collins
• Habermas
meets science
Stephen Turner
• From core
cognition to intuitive theories: A psychologist’s
account of
conceptual change
Christophe
Heintz
• Philosophical
fairytales from Feyerabend
Howard
Sankey
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
Thematic sections on
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Empiricism
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences History and
Philosophy of the Social Sciences Science Studies Cognitive Sciences Philosophy
of Probability
In the website of Metascience you can also have access to
forthcoming reviews that appear online first.
Some of the forthcoming reviews (available online first):
Book Symposia
Perspectives on global warming
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: Merchants of doubt: How a
handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global
warming.
Symposiasts: Steven Yearley, David Mercer, Andy Pitman,
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
The ICE-theory of technical functions
Houkes, Wybo and Vermaas, Pieter E.: Technical functions:
On the use and design of artefacts.
Symposiasts: E. Weber, T. A. C. Reydon, M. Boon, W.
Houkes and P. E. Vermaas
The cipher of the zodiac
Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz: The zodiac of
Paris: How an improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked
a modern debate between religion and science.
Symposiasts: Robert Fox, Charles C. Gillispie, Theresa
Levitt, David Aubin and Jed Z. Buchwald
Essay Reviews
The European birth of modern science: an exercise in
macro and comparative history H. Floris Cohen: How modern science came into the
world: Four civilizations, one 17th-century breakthrough, by John A. Schuster
Marxist roots of science studies
Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin (eds): The social
and economic roots of the scientific revolution. Texts by Boris Hessen and
Henryk Grossmann, by Nils Roll-Hansen
For a better understanding of causality
Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson (eds):
Causality in the sciences, by Alexander Gebharter and Gerhard Schurz
A priori knowledge of the way the world works James
Robert Brown: The laboratory of the mind: Thought experiments in the natural
sciences. 2nd Edn., by Michael Bishop Spotting the Sun: A translation and
analysis of three early seventeenth-century works on sunspots Galileo Galilei
and Christoph Scheiner: On sunspots (translated and introduced by Eileen Reeves
and Albert Van Helden) by Luciano Boschiero
Survey Review
Emergence and reduction in context: Philosophy of science
and/or analytic metaphysics Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (eds): Being
reduced: New essays on reduction, explanation, and causation & Mark A Bedau and Paul Humphreys
(eds): Emergence: Contemporary readings in philosophy and
science, & Antonella Corradini and Timothy O’Connor (eds): Emergence in
science and philosophy, by Michael Silberstein
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