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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