Publication of Volume 30, Issue 2 of the journal Metascience

Publication of Volume 30, Issue 2 of the journal Metascience. 

 

Editors: K. Brad Wray and Jonathan Simon 

 

https://link.springer.com/journal/11016/volumes-and-issues/30-2 

 

 

In this issue 

 

EDITORIAL 

1.      Jonathan Simon, The philosophers' stone 

 

SYMPOSIUM: ON ALCHEMY 

2.      William R. Newman, Rampling and the Ripley Corpus 

3.      Anna Marie Roos, Alchemical exegesis 

4.      Stephen Clucas, Playing with (experimental) fire 

5.      Jennifer M. Rampling, Alchemical reading in action 

 

HISTORY OF PHYSICS 

6.      Helge Kragh, The pope of condensed matter physics 

7.      Naomi Pasachoff, Life in Prague 

8.      Raffaele Pisano, Seventeen lectures in the history of physics 

 

HISTORY OF METEOROLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 

9.      Vanessa Heggie, Minding the mountains 

10. Alessandro Antonello, A pioneering life in the clouds 

11. Sebastian V. Grevsmühl, The environment of the people 

 

METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY AND FORMAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 

12. Manuel Pérez Otero, Prospects for non-negationist regulative epistemology 

13. James Wilson, All your Bayes (are) belong to us 

14. Henrik Kragh Sørensen, The importance of mathematical surplus 

15. Gustavo Cevolani, An invitation to truthmaker theory 

 

PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES/RACE & GENDER 

16. Katharine Jenkins, A productive exchange of views on race 

17. Gretchen Ellefson, Power matters 

 

SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS 

18. Luciano Boschiero, Scientific academies: the early years 

19. Paddy Holt, Brahe’s Uraniborg 

20. Hugues Chabot, The Academy’s best kept secrets 

21. José Pardo-Tomás, The end of phantasmagoria 

 

SCIENCE STUDIES 

22. Milan M. Ćirković, Planetary science through an ethnographic telescope       

23. Steven Umbrello, Can humans dream of electric sheep? 

24. Jessica Borge, A revisionist history of the trade in contraceptives 

25. Gil Santos, Philosophy needs to face up to the global problems of our times 

 

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 

26. Pierre Wagner, A portrait of Carnap as a young philosopher 

27. James Andrew Smith, Quine—structuralism and all 

 

PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY 

28. Karoliina Pulkkinen, Timing discoveries, timing updated editions 

29. Quentin Ruyant, A big picture perspective on the philosophy of chemistry 

 

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 

30. Stuart Blume, The original vaccine 

31. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Following the chromosome through history 

32. Michael Worboys, Occupational germs 

33. Peter Leese, Treating Trauma 

34. Peter Woodford, A fish-hook for biologists: will they take the bait? 

35. Nicolas Rasmussen, Friends of the cactus 

 

REPRESENTING SCIENCE 

36. Laura Søvsø Thomasen, The science of the Cosmos and all the art in between 

37. Serdal Tümkaya, Science, scientism, and never-ending myths about the scientistic stance 

38. Karim Bschir, How to make sense of science 

 

DATA, METHOD AND METHODOLOGY 

39. Jutta Schickore, Thinking about scientific thinking 

40. Frank Cabrera, Correlation isn’t good enough: causal explanation and Big Data