Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 4:1 is now available online


Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue at http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations
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We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Vol 4, No 1 (2010): Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture Table of Contents

Focused Discussion
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Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction] (1-7)
       Isaac Record

The Challenge of Authenticating Scientific Objects in Museum Collections:
Exposing the Forgery of a Moroccan Astrolabe Allegedly Dated 1845 CE (8-20)
       Ingrid Hehmeyer

People as Scientific Instruments (21-29)
       Maarten Derksen

Equipment for an Experiment (30-38)
       Rom Harré

An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice (39-44)
       Wendy S. Parker

Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt (45-60)
       Michael J. Barany

Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine
(61-70)
       James Hull

The Machine Speaks Falsely (71-84)
       Allan Franklin

Reading Measuring Instruments (85-93)
       Mario Bunge

Engineering Realities (94-110)
       Davis Baird

Conceptual Sea Changes (111-115)
       Paul Humphreys

Extended Thing Knowledge (116-128)
       Mathieu Charbonneau

Otto in the Chinese Room (129-137)
       Philip Murray McCullough

Humans not Instruments (138-147)
       Harry Collins

Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited (148-154)
       Trevor H. Levere

Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope (155-162)
       Jessica Ellen Sewell,   Andrew Johnston

Taming the “Publication Machine”: Generating Unity, Engaging the Trading Zones (163-172)
       François Thoreau,       Maria Neicu

Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology (173-190)
       Uljana Feest


Articles
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Domesticating the Planets: Instruments and Practices in the Development of Planetary Geology (191-230)
       Matthew Benjamin Shindell

“Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics (231-254)
       Dorothy Sutherland Olsen


Opinions
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Out the Door: A Short History of the University of Toronto Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (255-261)
       Erich Weidenhammer,     Michael Da Silva


Reviews
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Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate (262-265)
       Sebastian Assenza

Marc Lange. Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature
(266-269)
       Christopher Belanger

William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (270-272)
       Bruce J. Petrie

Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (273-275)
       Michael Cournoyea

Learning From Artifacts: A Review of the “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science,” Presented by The Canada Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster (276-279)
       Jaipreet Virdi

Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing:
Profiles of Patient Care (280-282)
       Delia Gavrus

Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability (283-285)
       R. Moore

Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis (286-288)
       Julia Agapitos

David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris (289-291)
       Sarah-Jane Patterson

Michael Strevens. Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation (292-299)
       Anthony Kulic


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Spontaneous Generations
Isaac Record, Editor