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Metascience new issue alert

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Vassilis Sakellariou <[log in to unmask]>

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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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