We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 22.3 of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h4604v8l2577/
In this issue:
Book Symposia
Historical and philosophical perspectives on quantum chemistry
Kostas Gavroglu, Ana Simões: Neither physics nor chemistry: A history of
quantum chemistry
Symposiasts: Hasok Chang, Jeremiah James, Paul Needham, Kostas Gavroglu &
Ana Simões
Causes as powers
Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum: Getting causes from powers
Symposiasts: Jennifer McKitrick, Anna Marmodoro, Stephen Mumford & Rani
Lill Anjum
Survey Review
The history of science in the thought of Herbert Butterfield
C. Thomas McIntire: Herbert Butterfield: Historian as dissenter
Michael Bentley: The life and thought of Herbert Butterfield: History,
science and God
Kenneth B. McIntyre: Herbert Butterfield: History, providence, and
skeptical politics
Reviewer: Keith C. Sewell
Essay Reviews
Making space for fundamentals
Richard Healey
Forman at forty: New perspectives on “Weimar culture and quantum mechanics”
Suman Seth
The many facets of Everett’s many worlds
Guido Bacciagaluppi
Why airplanes fly: The Strong Programme and the theory of lift
Eric Schatzberg
Thinking about Achinstein’s philosophy of science
Mark Newman
The cognitive science of Feynmen
Sanjay Chandrasekharan
The tensile functions of HPS
John G. McEvoy
No pragmatism without realism
Claudine Tiercelin
The public culture of science in nineteenth-century France
Mary Jo Nye
Thematic sections on
History and Philosophy of Physics
History of Medicine
Science & Technology Studies
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 Symposia
Robert S. Westman: The Copernican question: Prognostication, skepticism,
and celestial order
Symposiasts: Peter Barker, Peter Dear, J. R. Christianson & Robert S. Westman
Episteme, demonstration, and explanation: A fresh look at Aristotle’s
Posterior Analytics
Symposiasts: Gregory Salmieri, David Bronstein, David Charles, James G.
Lennox
Essay Reviews
Climate change and renewable energy
Kristin Shrader-Frechette: What will work: Fighting climate change with
renewable energy, not nuclear power
Reviewer: Martin Schönfeld
Michael Friedman and the “marriage” of history and philosophy of science
(and history of philosophy)
Mary Domski & Michael Dickson (eds): Discourse on a new method:
Reinvigorating the marriage of history and philosophy of science
Reviewer: Thomas Sturm
Michael Polanyi and the politics of science studies
Mary Jo Nye: Michael Polanyi and his generation: Origins of the social
construction of science
Reviewer: Charles Thorpe
False modesty
Steven Shapin: Never pure: Historical studies of science as if it was
produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and
society, and struggling for credibility and authority
Reviewer: Adrian Johns
Observation observed
Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds): Histories of scientific
observation
Reviewer: Sachiko Kusukawa
The world in the model and the model in the world
Mary S. Morgan: The world in the model: How economists work and think
Reviewer: John B. Davis
Explaining the novel success of science
John Wright: Explaining science’s success: Understanding how scientific
knowledge works
Reviewer: Mario Alai
Kuhn’s philosophical conception of science as evolutionary, social, and
epistemological
K. Brad Wray: Kuhn’s evolutionary social epistemology
Reviewer: Thomas Nickles
The questionable inventions of the clever Dr. Einstein
József Illy: The practical Einstein: Experiments, patents, inventions
Reviewer: Alberto A. Martínez
The aim and scope of scientific metaphysics
Don Ross, James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid (eds): Scientific metaphysics
Reviewer: Cristian Soto
Environmental ethics: Potent foundational knowledge or inert scholarship?
William P. Kabasenche, Michael O’Rourke and Matthew H. Slater (eds): The
environment: Philosophy, science and ethics
Reviewer: Paul Brown
Beyond and behind Hilbert spaces: Interpreting quantum theories via
mathematical advances
Hans Halvorson (ed.): Deep beauty: Understanding the quantum world through
mathematical innovation
Reviewer: Aristidis Arageorgis
Kant’s natural-scientific output
Eric Watkins (ed.): Immanuel Kant. Natural science
Reviewer: Marius Stan
Revisiting Structure
Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis (eds): Kuhn’s The structure of
scientific revolutions revisited
Reviewer: Howard Sankey
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