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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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