Metascience new issue 23.1
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 23.1
of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
In this issue:
Book Symposium
Episteme, demonstration, and explanation: A fresh look at
Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Symposiasts: Gregory Salmieri, David Bronstein, David
Charles, James G.
Lennox
Essay Reviews
Kuhn’s philosophical conception of science as
evolutionary, social, and epistemological K. Brad Wray: Kuhn’s evolutionary
social epistemology Thomas Nickles
Revisiting Structure
Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis (eds): Kuhn’s The
structure of scientific revolutions revisited Howard Sankey
The questionable inventions of the clever Dr. Einstein
József Illy: The practical Einstein: Experiments, patents, inventions Alberto
A. Martínez
Kant’s natural-scientific output
Eric Watkins (ed.): Immanuel Kant. Natural science Marius
Stan
Beyond and behind Hilbert spaces: Interpreting quantum
theories via mathematical advances Hans Halvorson (ed.): Deep beauty:
Understanding the quantum world through mathematical innovation Aristidis
Arageorgis
The aim and scope of scientific metaphysics Don Ross,
James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid (eds): Scientific metaphysics Cristian Soto
Explaining the novel success of science
John Wright: Explaining science’s success: Understanding
how scientific knowledge works Mario Alai
Environmental ethics: Potent foundational knowledge or
inert scholarship?
William P. Kabasenche, Michael O’Rourke and Matthew H.
Slater (eds): The
environment: Philosophy, science and ethics Paul Brown
False modesty
Steven Shapin: Never pure: Historical studies of science
as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture,
and society, and struggling for credibility and authority Adrian Johns
Thematic sections on
History and Philosophy of Physics
History and Philosophy of Technology
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 Symposium
Why was Copernicus a Copernican?
Robert S. Westman: The Copernican question:
Prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order
Symposiasts: Peter Barker, Peter Dear, J. R.
Christianson, Robert S. Westman
Essay Reviews
Climate change and renewable energy
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: What will work: Fighting
climate change with renewable energy, not nuclear power
Reviewer: Martin Schönfeld
Michael Friedman and the “marriage” of history and
philosophy of science (and history of philosophy) Mary Domski & Michael
Dickson (eds): Discourse on a new method:
Reinvigorating the marriage of history and philosophy of
science
Reviewer: Thomas Sturm
Michael Polanyi and the politics of science studies Mary
Jo Nye: Michael Polanyi and his generation: Origins of the social construction
of science
Reviewer: Charles Thorpe
Observation observed
Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds): Histories of
scientific observation
Reviewer: Sachiko Kusukawa
The world in the model and the model in the world Mary S.
Morgan: The world in the model: How economists work and think
Reviewer: John B. Davis
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