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We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 20.3 of Metascience. Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis http://www.springerlink.com/content/k6166w05378u/ In this issue: Book Symposia • Scientific representation: A long journey from pragmatics to pragmatics Bas C. van Fraassen: Scientific representation: Paradoxes of perspective. Symposiasts: James Ladyman, Otávio Bueno, Mauricio Suárez and Bas C. van Fraassen • Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race Michael Gordin: Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly. Symposiasts S. S. Schweber, Alex Wellerstein, Ethan Pollock, Barton J. Bernstein and Michael D. Gordin Survey Reviews • Mathematical and philosophical Newton Steffen Ducheyne • Chemistry as the special science of the elements Klaus Ruthenberg Essay Reviews • Welcome to the jumble Steven French • Cybernetics as a usable past Ronald R. Kline • The ongoing pursuit of tacit knowledge Charles W. Smith • Does mathematics have a life of its own? James Robert Brown • Breathing fresh air into the philosophy of mathematics Marco Panza Reviews on • Philosophy of Science • History of Science Thematic sections on • History of Philosophy of Science • History and Philosophy of Mathematics • Social and Cognitive Studies of Science • History of technology In the website of Metascience you can also have access to forthcoming reviews that appear online first. Some of the forthcoming reviews: Book Symposia • Historiography in a metaphysical mode John G. McEvoy: The historiography of the chemical revolution: Patterns of interpretation in the history of science. Symposiasts: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jan Golinski, Lissa L. Roberts and John McEvoy • 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 Essay Reviews • Performances and arguments Bruno Latour: The modern cult of the factish Gods, by Harry Collins • Habermas meets science William Rehg: Cogent science in context: The science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas, by Stephen Turner • Philosophical fairytales from Feyerabend Paul Feyerabend: The tyranny of science, by Howard Sankey • How should philosophy of social science proceed? Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (ed.): Philosophy of the social sciences: Philosophical theory and scientific practice, by Harold Kincaid • Varieties of structuralism Alisa Bokulich and Peter Bokulich (eds): Scientific structuralism, by Robert Nola • Models all the way down Paul N. Edwards: A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming, by Naomi Oreskes • Victorian physics meets industrial capitalism Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise: Energy and empire: A biographical study of Lord Kelvin, by Bruce J. Hunt • Can we dispense with mimesis in representation? R. Frigg and M. C. Hunter (eds.): Beyond mimesis and convention: Representation in art and science, by José A. Díez • The theory of everything? Brian Ellis: The metaphysics of scientific realism, by Emma Tobin • Free will sans metaphysics? Mark Balaguer: Free will as an open scientific problem, by Helen Beebee Survey Review • Banging on about Darwin: Hodge in context M. J. S. Hodge: Before and after Darwin: Origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies & M. J. S. Hodge: Darwin studies: A theorist and his theories in their contexts, by Evelleen Richards To appear on line soon • Mary Leng: Mathematics and Reality Symposiasts: Christopher Pincock, Alan Baker, Alexander Paseu, Mary Leng • Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison: Objectivity Symposiasts: Peter Dear, Ian Hacking, Matthew Jones, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison • Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway: Merchants of Doubt Symposiasts: Steven Yearley, David Mercer, Andy Pitman, Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway Free Sample Copy If you are not a current subscriber to the journal, click here to read a free sample copy online. Subscribers to a Springer publication are entitled to read the full-text articles online in SpringerLink. For registration information please contact your librarian or send us an e-mail: In the Americas: [log in to unmask] In all other countries: [log in to unmask]