Metascience -new issue alert
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 22.2
of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
In this issue:
Book Symposia
On Newton’s method
William L. Harper: Isaac Newton’s scientific method:
Turning data into evidence about gravity and cosmology
Symposiasts: Nick Hugget, George Smith, David Marshall
Miller, and William Harper
Structures, fictions, and the explanatory epistemology of
mathematics in science Christopher Pincock: Mathematics and scientific
representation
Symposiasts: Mark Balaguer, Elaine Landry, Sorin Bangu,
and Christopher Pincock
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
• How (and how
not) to object to objects: developments in
structural
realism
Kerry
McKenzie
• Aristotle’s
theory of science and his biological writings
Andrea Falcon
• Isaac Newton
and the left eye of history
Patricia Fara
• The
methodological dimension of the Newtonian revolution
Eric Schliesser
Thematic sections on
Metaphysics of Science
Aristotle
Newton - Leibniz
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences and Medicine
Thought Experiments Science & Religion History and Philosophy of
Mathematics and Logic
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
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
Historical and philosophical perspectives on quantum
chemistry Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões: Neither physics nor chemistry: A
history of quantum chemistry
Symposiasts: Hasok Chang, Jeremiah James, Paul Needham,
and Kostas Gavroglu & Ana Simões
Causes as powers
Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum: Getting causes
from powers
Symposiasts: Jennifer McKitrick, Anna Marmodoro, and
Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum
Survey Review
The history of science in the thought of Herbert
Butterfield C. Thomas McIntire: Herbert Butterfield: Historian as dissenter
Michael Bentley: The life and thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, science
and God Kenneth B. McIntyre: Herbert Butterfield: History, providence, and
skeptical politics
Reviewer: Keith C. Sewell
Essay Reviews
The tensile functions of HPS
Hasok Chang: Is water H2O? Evidence, realism and
pluralism
Reviewer: John G. McEvoy
The public culture of science in nineteenth-century
France Robert Fox: The savant and the state: science and cultural politics in
nineteenth-century France
Reviewer: Mary Jo Nye
Making space for fundamentals
Frank Arntzenius: Space, time and stuff
Reviewer: Richard Healey
Forman at forty: New perspectives on “Weimar culture and
quantum mechanics”
Cathryn Carson, Alexei Kojevnikov, and Helmut Trischler
(eds): Weimar culture and quantum mechanics: Selected papers by Paul Forman and
contemporary perspectives on the Forman thesis
Reviewer: Suman Seth
No pragmatism without realism
Huw Price: Naturalism without mirrors
Reviewer: Claudine Tiercelin
Why airplanes fly: The Strong Programme and the theory of
lift David Bloor: The enigma of the aerofoil: Rival theories in aerodynamics
Reviewer: Eric Schatzberg
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
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
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