Metascience new issue alert
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 22.1
of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
In this issue:
Book Symposia
Locke’s experimental philosophy
Peter R. Anstey: John Locke and natural philosophy
Symposiasts: Matthew Stuart, Keith Campbell, Michael
Jacovides, and Peter Anstey.
The ICE-theory of technical functions
Wybo Houkes and Pieter E. Vermaas: Technical functions.
On the use and design of artefacts.
Symposiasts: Erik Weber, Thomas A.C. Reydon, Mieke Boon,
Wybo Houkes and Pieter E. Vermaas
Survey Reviews
Votes and lab coats: Democratizing scientific research
and science policy Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal, and Ruud Hendriks: The paradox
of scientific
authority: The role of scientific advice in democracies
Mark B. Brown: Science in democracy: Expertise, institutions, and
representation Massimiano Bucchi: Beyond technocracy: Science, politics and
citizens Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes, and Yannick Barthe: Acting in an
uncertain world: An essay on technical democracy Philip Kitcher: Science in a
democratic society
Reviewers: Gürol Irzik and A. Faik Kurtulmuş
Radioactivity redux
Marjorie C. Malley: Radioactivity: A history of a
mysterious science Lauren Redniss: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A
tale of love and fallout
Reviewer: Naomi Pasachoff
Essay Reviews
• Ruetsche on
the pristine and adulterated in quantum field theory
Hans
Halvorson
• The wrong,
the good, and the better
Detlef
Dürr
• A guide to
the Floridi keys
J. Michael
Dunn
• Getting
into the driver’s seat
Willard
McCarty
• Faye’s
naturalistic reconstruction of the humanities
C. Mantzavinos
• Getting the
world right: Cognitive maps and pictures of universals
Athanassios Raftopoulos
• The
Archimedes palimpsest: The definitive edition
Jean
Christianidis
• The
earliest surviving treatise on shipbuilding
Filipe Castro
• The Vickers
key to Bacon’s (English) works
Rose-Mary
Sargent
• From
setting the distance to adjusting the focus
Sacha
Loeve
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
Thematic sections on
Science and Democracy
History and philosophy of physics
Philosophy and history of computing
Philosophy of the humanities
History and philosophy of psychology/cognitive science
Ancient and early modern science and philosophy Philosophy of science History
and philosophy of biology Social and cultural studies of science and technology
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):
Survey Reviews
New work in metaphysics of science
Anna Marmodoro (ed.): The metaphysics of powers – Their
grounding and their manifestations Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary
(eds): The semantics and metaphysics of natural kinds
Reviewer: Andreas Hüttemann
Science and metaphysics in Aristotle’s philosophy J. G.
Lennox & Robert Bolton (eds): Being, nature, and life in Aristotle:
Essays in honor of Allan Gotthelf
Mariska Leunissen: Explanation and teleology in
Aristotle’s science of nature Tony Roark: Aristotle on time: A study of the
Physics
Reviewer: Michail Peramatzis
Essay Reviews
The many facets of Everett’s many worlds Saunders, Simon,
Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, and David Wallace (eds):
Many worlds? Everett, quantum theory, & reality
Reviewer: Guido Bacciagaluppi
Aristotle’s theory of science and his biological writings
Allan Gotthelf: Teleology, first principles, and scientific method in
Aristotle’s biology
Reviewer: Andrea
Falcon
The cognitive science of Feynmen
Paul Thagard: The cognitive science of science:
Explanation, discovery, and conceptual change
Reviewer: Sanjay Chandrasekharan
Thinking about Achinstein’s philosophy of science Gregory
J. Morgan (ed.): Philosophy of science matters: The philosophy of Peter
Achinstein
Reviewer: Mark Newman
How (and how not) to object to objects: Developments in
structural realism Elaine M. Landry and Dean P. Rickles (eds): Structural
realism: Structure, object and causality
Reviewer: Kerry McKenzie
Getting the world right: Cognitive maps and pictures of
universals Paul M. Churchland: Plato’s camera: How the physical brain captures
a landscape of abstract universals
Reviewer: Athanassios Raftopoulos
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