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
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