Metascience new issue alert
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 23.3
of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis http://link.springer.com/journal/11016/23/3/page/1/
In this issue:
Editorial
Theodore Arabatzis & Stathis Psillos
Book Symposium
Objective evidence and rules of strategy: Achinstein on
method Peter Achinstein: Evidence and method: Scientific strategies of Isaac
Newton and James Clerk Maxwell
Symposiasts: William L. Harper , Kent W. Staley , Henk W.
de Regt & Peter Achinstein
Book Symposium
Pluralism, social action and the causal space of human
behavior Helen Longino: Studying human
behavior. How scientists investigate aggression and sexuality
Symposiasts: James Tabery, Alex Preda & Helen Longino
Essay Reviews
Making sense of probabilities in physics Claus Beisbart
and Stephan Hartmann (eds): Probabilities in physics Maria Panagiotatou
Entangling and disentangling realism and wave function
Alyssa Ney and David Z. Albert (eds): The wave function. Essays on the
metaphysics of quantum mechanics Décio Krause and Jonas R. B. Arenhart
Demons in physics
Hemmo, Meir and Orly R. Shenker: The road to Maxwell's
Demon. Conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics Amit Hagar
Powers, laws and freedom of the will
Stephen Horst: Laws, mind, and free will Derk Pereboom
The landscape of causation
L. A. Paul and Ned Hall: Causation: A user’s guide Max
Kistler
Immanuel Velikovsky and the return of the fringe Michael
D. Gordin: The pseudoscience wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the birth of the
modern fringe Trevor Pinch
Realism as part of pragmatism
Philip Kitcher: Preludes to pragmatism: Toward a
reconstruction of philosophy Sami Pihlström
Aristotle's syllogistics
Marko Malink: Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistics Sara L.
Uckelman
Scientific and religious beliefs revisited Brian Davies:
Why beliefs matter. Reflections on the nature of science Michel Ghins
Reworking Descartes’ mathesis universalis John Schuster:
Descartes-Agonistes: Physico-mathematics, method & corpuscular-mechanism
1618-33 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Discovery in science
Steven J. Dick: Discovery and classification in
astronomy: Controversy and consensus Omar W. Nasim
The uses of style and the ‘big picture’ history of science
Chunglin Kwa: Styles of knowing: A new history of science from ancient times to
the present Victor D. Boantza
Assessing the assessment of five fruitful scientific faux
pas Mario Livio: Brilliant blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – colossal
mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the
universe Naomi Pasachoff
Survey Review
Losing the world knowingly
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: L’apocalypse joyeuse: Une histoire
du risque technologique Rosalind Williams: The Triumph of human empire: Verne,
Morris and Stevenson at the end of the world Mieke van Hemert
Thematic sections on
Metaphysics of Science
Science & Religion
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
What if history of science
Peter J. Bowler: Darwin deleted: Imagining a world
without Darwin
Symposiasts: Alan C. Love, Robert J. Richards, Peter J.
Bowler
Essay Reviews
A potted history of addiction and its treatment in time
and space Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott (eds): Addiction trajectories
David J Allsop
Pragmatism: an overview
Michael Bacon: Pragmatism: an introduction Robert Almeder
A systematic companion to ‘neo-classical’ philosophy of
science Gerhard Schurz: Philosophy of science: A unified approach Gustavo
Cevolani
Representing and measuring: discussing van Fraassen’s
views Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (ed.): Bas van Fraassen’s approach to
representation and models in science Michel Ghins
Brouwer’s certainties: mysticism, mathematics, and the
ego Dirk van Dalen: L.E.J. Brouwer: Topologist, intuitionist, philosopher – How
mathematics is rooted in life Jeremy Gray
Functions and functional explanation revisited Philippe
Huneman (ed.): Functions: selection and mechanisms Stavros Ioannidis
Robustness analysis versus reliable process reasoning
Robert Hudson: Seeing things: The philosophy of reliable observation Chiara
Lisciandra
A Defence of String Theory
Richard Dawid: String Theory and the Scientific Method
Keizo Matsubara
Aristotle on being as activity
Aryeh Kosman: The
Activity of being. An essay on Aristotle’s ontology Vasilis Politis and Jun Su
Natural kinds no longer are what they never were Muhammad
Ali Khalidi: Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural
and Social Sciences Thomas A. C. Reydon
Monism versus emergence? The one and the many Mariam
Thalos: Without hierarchy: the scale freedom of the Universe Michael
Silberstein
Metaphysics, laws, and natural kinds: minimalist
approaches Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby (eds): Metaphysics and science
Cristian Soto
Common causes love to hide
Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Miklós Rédei and Lázló E. Szabó: The
Principle of the Common Cause Chrysovalantis Stergiou
Tacit knowledge: in what sense?
Neil Gascoigne and Tim Thornton: Tacit knowledge YU
Zhenhua
Arnold Sommerfeld: A biography
Michael Eckert: Arnold Sommerfeld: Science, life and
turbulent times
1868-1951
S. S. Schweber
A new anatomy
Domenico Bertoloni-Meli: Mechanism, experiment, disease:
Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy Cynthia Klestinec and Gideon
Manning
The historical contingency of rationality: The social
sciences and the Cold War Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston,
Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm and Michael D. Gordin: How reason lost its mind:
The strange career of Cold War rationality Jeroen van Dongen
Applied mereology
C. Calosi and P. Graziani (eds): Mereology and the
sciences. Parts and wholes in the contemporary scientific context Ingvar
Johansson
Survey Review
Stem cell lacunae
Sarah Franklin: Biological relatives: IVF, stem cells,
and the future of kinship Charis Thompson: Good science: The ethical
choreography of stem cell research Melinda Bonnie Fagan
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