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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