We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.2 of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
http://www.springerlink.com/content/111724/
In this issue:
Book Symposia
If I could talk to the animals
Gregory Radick: The simian tongue: The long debate about animal language.
Symposiasts: Thomas Suddendorf, Mark E. Borrello, Colin Allen and Gregory
Radick
Science and mathematics: the scope and limits of mathematical fictionalism
Mary Leng: Mathematics and reality.
Symposiasts: Christopher Pincock, Alan Baker, Alexander Paseau and Mary Leng
Essay Reviews
• The vicissitudes of mathematical reason in the 20th century
Thomas Mormann
• The scope of logical atomism
Graham Stevens
• Thomas Brown: Negotiating a position between Hume and Reid
Ralph Jessop
• How should philosophy of social science proceed?
Harold Kincaid
• Performances and arguments
Harry Collins
• Habermas meets science
Stephen Turner
• From core cognition to intuitive theories: A psychologist’s
account of conceptual change
Christophe Heintz
• Philosophical fairytales from Feyerabend
Howard Sankey
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
Thematic sections on
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Empiricism
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Science Studies
Cognitive Sciences
Philosophy of Probability
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 Symposia
Perspectives on global warming
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: Merchants of doubt: How a handful of
scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global
warming.
Symposiasts: Steven Yearley, David Mercer, Andy Pitman, Naomi Oreskes and
Erik Conway
The ICE-theory of technical functions
Houkes, Wybo and Vermaas, Pieter E.: Technical functions: On the use and
design of artefacts.
Symposiasts: E. Weber, T. A. C. Reydon, M. Boon, W. Houkes and P. E. Vermaas
The cipher of the zodiac
Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz: The zodiac of Paris: How an
improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern
debate between religion and science.
Symposiasts: Robert Fox, Charles C. Gillispie, Theresa Levitt, David Aubin
and Jed Z. Buchwald
Essay Reviews
The European birth of modern science: an exercise in macro and comparative
history
H. Floris Cohen: How modern science came into the world: Four
civilizations, one 17th-century breakthrough, by John A. Schuster
Marxist roots of science studies
Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin (eds): The social and economic
roots of the scientific revolution. Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk
Grossmann, by Nils Roll-Hansen
For a better understanding of causality
Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo, Jon Williamson (eds): Causality in
the sciences, by Alexander Gebharter and Gerhard Schurz
A priori knowledge of the way the world works
James Robert Brown: The laboratory of the mind: Thought experiments in the
natural sciences. 2nd Edn., by Michael Bishop
Spotting the Sun: A translation and analysis of three early
seventeenth-century works on sunspots
Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner: On sunspots (translated and
introduced by Eileen Reeves and Albert Van Helden) by Luciano Boschiero
Survey Review
Emergence and reduction in context: Philosophy of science and/or analytic
metaphysics
Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (eds): Being reduced: New essays on
reduction, explanation, and causation & Mark A Bedau and Paul Humphreys
(eds): Emergence: Contemporary readings in philosophy and science, &
Antonella Corradini and Timothy O’Connor (eds): Emergence in science and
philosophy, by Michael Silberstein
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