Metascience new issue
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.3
of Metascience.
Editors: Stathis Psillos & Theodore Arabatzis
In this issue:
Book Symposia
The cipher of the zodiac
Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz: The zodiac of
Paris: How an improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked
a modern debate between religion and science.
Symposiasts: Robert Fox, Charles C. Gillispie, Theresa
Levitt, David Aubin, and Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz.
Perspectives on global warming
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: Merchants of doubt: How a
handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global
warming.
Symposiasts: Steven Yearley, David Mercer, Andy Pitman,
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Survey Reviews
Telliamed in its time
Claudine Cohen: Science, libertinage et clandestinité à
l’aube des lumières. Le transformisme de Telliamed & Francine Markovits
(ed.): Telliamed. Vol. No. 59 of Corpus, Revue de philosophie (Corpus des
oeuvres de philosophie en langue française)
Reviewer: Kenneth L. Taylor
Quantum information
Vlatko Vedral: Decoding reality: The universe as quantum
information & Christopher Fuchs: Coming of age with quantum information:
Notes on a Paulian idea
Reviewer: Fedde Benedictus
Emergence and reduction in context: Philosophy of science
and/or analytic metaphysics Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (eds): Being reduced:
New essays on reduction, explanation, and causation & Mark A. Bedau and
Paul Humphreys (eds): Emergence: Contemporary readings in philosophy and
science & Antonella Corradini and Timothy O’Connor (eds): Emergence in
science and philosophy
Reviewer: Michael Silberstein
Essay Reviews
Pulling apart the quantum's entanglement with the counter
culture: How fysiks became physics Trevor Pinch Einstein in the public arena
David E. Rowe For a better understanding of causality Alexander Gebharter and
Gerhard Schurz The European birth of modern science: An exercise in macro and
comparative history John A. Schuster Spotting the Sun: A translation and
analysis of three early seventeenth-century works on sunspots Luciano Boschiero
A priori knowledge of the way the world works Michael Bishop The heuristics of
mechanism discovery Phyllis McKay Illari Rethinking the meaning of mechanism in
antiquity Jean de Groot The long cold nuclear winter Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Marxist roots of science studies Nils Roll-Hansen
Reviews on
Philosophy of Science
History of Science
Thematic sections on
History and philosophy of the environmental and earth
sciences History and philosophy of physics Metaphysics of science Early modern
science Social studies 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):
Survey Reviews
Votes and lab coats: Democratizing scientific research
and science policy Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal, and Ruud Hendriks: The paradox
of scientific
authority: The role of scientific advice in democracies
& Mark B. Brown: Science in democracy: Expertise, institutions, and
representation & Massimiano Bucchi: Beyond technocracy: Science, politics
and citizens & Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes, and Yannick Barthe: Acting
in an uncertain world: An essay on technical democracy & Philip Kitcher:
Science in a democratic society
Reviewers: Gürol Irzik and A. Faik Kurtulmuş
Science and metaphysics in Aristotle’s philosophy J. G.
Lennox & Robert Bolton (eds): Being, nature, and life in Aristotle:
Essays in honor of Allan Gotthelf &
Mariska Leunissen: Explanation and teleology in
Aristotle’s science of nature & Tony Roark: Aristotle on time: A study of
the Physics
Reviewer: Michail Peramatzis
Essay Reviews
Getting into the driver’s seat
Michael S. Mahoney: Histories of computing
Reviewer: Willard McCarty
Faye’s naturalistic reconstruction of the humanities Jan
Faye: After postmodernism: A naturalistic reconstruction of the humanities
Reviewer: C. Mantzavinos
Ruetsche on the pristine and adulterated in quantum field
theory Laura Ruetsche: Interpreting quantum theories
Reviewer: Hans Halvorson
How (and how not) to object to objects: Developments in
structural realism Elaine M. Landry and Dean P. Rickles (eds): Structural
Realism: Structure, object and causality
Reviewer: Kerry McKenzie
Thinking about Achinstein’s philosophy of science Gregory
J. Morgan (ed.): Philosophy of science matters: The philosophy of Peter
Achinstein
Reviewer: Mark Newman
Getting the world right: Cognitive maps and pictures of
universals Paul M. Churchland: Plato’s camera: How the physical brain captures
a landscape of abstract universals
Reviewer: Athanassios Raftopoulos
The Vickers key to Bacon’s (English) works Francis Bacon:
The major works
Reviewer: Rose-Mary Sargent
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