METASCIENCE new issue alert
publication of Volume 26, Issue 3 of the journal Metascience
Editors: K. Brad Wray and Luciano Boschiero
In this issues:
Editorial
REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGINS AND IMPORTANCE OF OUR FIELDS
By Luciano Boschiero
By K. Brad Wray
Symposium: Cohen’s The Rise of Modern Science
STRUCTURES OF EXPLANATIONS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
H. Floris Cohen: The rise of modern science explained: A comparative history.
By Babak Ashrafi
SAVING THE PHENOMENA: THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION(S) EXPLAINED
H. Floris Cohen: The rise of modern science explained. A comparative history.
By Lesley B. Cormack
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
H. Floris Cohen: The rise of modern science explained: A comparative history.
By William Eamon
ENLARGING THE PICTURE, ENLARGING THE AUDIENCE: RESPONSE TO MY THREE CRITICS
H. Floris Cohen: The Rise of Modern Science Explained: A Comparative History.
By H. Floris Cohen
Symposium: Morag’s Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason
EMOTIONS AND SOCIAL IMAGINARIES
Talia Morag: Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason.
By Catriona Mackenzie
MECHANISMS CAN BE COMPLEX
Talia Morag: Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason.
By Paul E. Griffiths
ENACTIVE EMOTIONS AND IMAGINATIVE ASSOCIATION: A MULTI-LAYERED ACCOUNT
Talia Morag: Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason.
By Daniel D. Hutto
AUTHOR’S RESPONSE
Talia Morag: Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason.
By Talia Morag
Early Modern Science
Essay Review
WHAT LIES BENEATH: EARLY MODERN DISCOV- ERY AND THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE
David Wootton: The invention of science: A new history of the scientific revolution.
By J. D. Fleming
Book Note
HUME’S SCIENCE OF MAN AS A NEWTONIAN ARTEFACT
Tamas Demeter: David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism: methodology and ideology in enlightenment inquiry, Brill’s studies in intellectual history, vol. 259.
By Roger L. Emerson
Science Studies
Book Reviews
HOW TO DEAL WITH COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY AND ITS UNEXPECTED EFFECTS?
Samuel Arbesman: Overcomplicated: Technology at the limits of comprehension.
By Tom Børsen
ENTER THE TERMINATOR
Alex Leveringhaus: Ethics and autonomous weapons.
By John Forge
CONVENIENT DEATH
Marc Raboy: Marconi: The man who networked the world.
By Mary K. MacLeod
Book Notes
THE POLITICS OF THE ACCEPTABLE: CITIZEN SCIENCE IN A TROUBLED AGE
Aya Hirata Kimura: Radiation brain moms and citizen scientists:
the gender politics of food contamination after Fukushima.
By Richard Newman
RENDERING SATELLITES MORE VISIBLE
Doug Millard: Satellite: Innovation in orbit.
By Jon Agar
History of Magic, Science and Religion
Essay Review
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MAGIC IN THE CANONICAL HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Brian P. Copenhaver: Magic in western culture: From antiquity to the enlightenment.
By Claire Fanger
Book Review
COMPLEXITY AND ITS CONTEXT IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Gary Ferngren (ed.): Science and religion: a historical introduction, 2nd ed.
By Adam Richter
Philosophy of Physics
Book Review
FINDING THE METAPHYSICS WITHIN QUANTUM MECHANICS
Peter Lewis: Quantum ontology. A guide to the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.
By Alyssa Ney
Book Note
WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DOES QUANTUM FIELD THEORY EXPLAIN?
Jonathan Bain: CPT invariance and the spin-statistics connection.
By Michael E. Miller
Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Psychology
Book Reviews
A HANDBOOK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Cristina Bicchieri: Norms in the wild: how to diagnose, measure, and change social norms.
By Ulf Hlobil
MORE NEW ESSAYS ON EPISTEMIC AGENCY
Patrick Reider (ed.): Social epistemology and epistemic agency: Decentralizing epistemic agency.
By Kristina Rolin
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REAL HUMAN KINDS
Ron Mallon: The construction of human kinds.
By Jonathan Y. Tsou
AN ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON PANPSYCHISM Godehard Bruntrip and Ludwig Jaskolla (eds.): Panpsychism: contemporary perspectives.
By Gregory Michael Nixon
GEOMETRY AND GEOGRAPHY OF MORALITY
S. Matthew Liao (ed.): Moral brains. The neuroscience of morality.
By Jovan Babic
History and Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
Book Reviews
EVOLUTIONARY CHANCE AND CONTINGENCY: IN SEARCH FOR SYSTEMATICS
Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence (eds.): Chance in evolution.
By Jeroen Hopster
TO BE RATIONAL, OR NOT TO BE RATIONAL—THAT IS THE QUESTION
Michael Tye: Tense bees and shell-shocked crabs: Are animals conscious?
By Susana Monso
FROM SPECIES TO CLASSIFICATION AND BACK AGAIN
Richard A. Richards: Biological classification: A philosophical introduction.
By Phillip Honenberger
Book Note
CHINESE PLANTS REDISCOVERED
Georges Metailie (trans. Janet Lloyd): Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 6. Biology and biological technology. Part IV. Traditional botany. An ethnobotanical approach.
By Nathan Sivin
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Book Notes
REFLECTIONS ON RECOLLECTIONS: A JEWISH MATHEMATICIAN’S LIFE
Abraham A. Fraenkel. Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany. Jiska Cohen-Mansfield (ed.), Allison Brown (Trans.).
By Mark Zelcer
THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE Hartry Field: Science without Numbers, 2nd Edition.
By Stefan Buijsman
General Philosophy of Science, Paradoxes, and Philosophy of Language
Book Reviews
REASONS WITHOUT ARGUMENT Bradford Skow: Reasons why.
By Michael Baumgartner
REWRITING THE SCRIPT ON SOLUTIONS Terence Horgan: Essays on paradoxes.
By Margaret Cuonzo
Book Note
NOT JUST ANOTHER PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE BOOK
Margaret Cameron, Benjamin Hill, and Robert J. Stainton (eds.): Sourcebook in the history of philosophy of language. Springer graduate texts in philosophy.
By Heidi Savage
Biography
Book Review
THE MANY LIVES OF ALEXANDRE KOYRE Paola Zambelli: Alexandre Koyre´ in incognito.
By Pietro D. Omodeo 523–526