Metascience

Protecting rainforest realism: James Ladyman, Don Ross: Everything must go: metaphysics naturalized, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 368 £49.00 HB
pp. 161-185(25)
Authors: Kyle Stanford, P.; Humphreys, Paul; Hawley, Katherine; Ladyman, James; Ross, Don

Regress and rhetoric at the Tuscan court: Luciano Boschiero: Experiment and natural philosophy in seventeenth-century Tuscany: the history of the accademia del cimento. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007, pp. xi+251. £144.00 HB
pp. 187-210(24)
Authors: Beretta, Marco; Feingold, Mordechai; Findlen, Paula; Boschiero, Luciano

Truth, beauty, and counting: Robert Tubbs: What is a number: mathematical concepts and their origins, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009, x + 305 pp, £15.00 PB
pp. 211-212(2)
Author: Gray, Jeremy

The tale of modernist mathematics: Jeremy Gray: Plato's ghost. The modernist transformation of mathematics. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2008, pp. viii + 514, US $45.00, £30.95 HB
pp. 213-216(4)
Author: Scholz, Erhard

Going to ground with concepts: Carrie S. Jenkins, Grounding concepts, an empirical basis for arithmetical knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008, 304 pp, £35.00 HB
pp. 217-220(4)
Author: Ebert, Philip

A medley of philosophy of mathematics: Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter (eds): Philosophy of mathematics: set theory, measuring theories, and nominalism. Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2008, 181 pp, US$108 HB
pp. 221-224(4)
Author: Baker, Alan

Mesopotamian mathematics: Eleanor Robson: Mathematics in ancient Iraq. A social history, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2008, xxiii + 441 pp, US $49.50 HB
pp. 225-227(3)
Author: Yuste, Piedad

Windows into the lives of the men who developed quantum physics
pp. 229-238(10)
Author: Pasachoff, Naomi

Heisenberg's invention of the Copenhagen interpretation: Kristian Camilleri: Heisenberg and the interpretation of quantum mechanics: The physicist as philosopher. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, 212 pp, $81 HB
pp. 239-242(4)
Author: Faye, Jan

The causal theory revisited: Peter J. Riggs: Quantum causality, Springer, 2009, xii + 232 pp, Hb, €99.95
pp. 243-246(4)
Author: Struyve, Ward

The diversities of biodiversity: James Maclaurin and Kim Sterelny: What is Biodiversity? The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, xii + 217 pp, US$ 24 PB
pp. 247-250(4)
Author: Justus, James

A nohowish untalkaboutable all-likeness: Mark Francis: Herbert spencer and the invention of modern life. Acumen Publishing, Stocksfield, 2007, 464 pp, US$45.00 HB
pp. 251-254(4)
Author: Endersby, Jim

Waxing ecological: Diane Kelsey McColley: Poetry and ecology in the age of Milton and Marvell. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, 252 pp, UK£55.00 HB
pp. 255-257(3)
Author: Barnes, Diana

Debunking New World degeneracy: Lee Alan Dugatkin: Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: natural history in early America. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009, 166 pp, $26.00 HB
pp. 259-261(3)
Author: Rowland, Stephen

A polemic for human enhancement: John Harris: Enhancing evolution: the ethical case for making better people. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007, xvi + 242 pp, US$27.95 HC
pp. 263-266(4)
Author: Berry, Roberta

Sacrificing the beast
pp. 267-271(5)
Author: Johnson, Jane

Understanding conceptual innovation in science: Nancy Nersessian: Creating scientific concepts. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2008, pp. xiv + 251, US $20.95 HB
pp. 273-276(4)
Author: Brown, Harold

Mathematical and aesthetic aspects of symmetry: G. Hon, B. R. Goldstein: From summetria to symmetry: the making of a revolutionary scientific concept. Springer, Dordrecht, 2008, xvi + 335 pp, £135.00 HB
pp. 277-280(4)
Author: Brading, Katherine

Modeling prototypes: Daniela M. Bailer-Jones, Scientific models in philosophy of science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, x+ 235 pp. US $45 ΗΒ
pp. 281-284(4)
Author: Portides, Demetris

Novel approaches to models: Mauricio Suárez (ed.): Fictions in science: philosophical essays on modeling and idealization, Routledge, New York, 2009, vii + 282 pp, US$118 HB
pp. 285-288(4)
Author: Toon, Adam

A view from Sydney: how to Stove the enemies of science: James Franklin: What science knows and how it knows it. Encounter Books, New York & London, 2009, pp v + 283, US $23.95 HB
pp. 289-292(4)
Author: Sankey, Howard

Cracks on the mosaic unity of science: Carl F. Craver: Explaining the brain: mechanisms and the mosaic unity of science. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, xx + 308 pp, Pbk £16.99
pp. 293-296(4)
Author: Raftopoulos, Athanassios

On Husserl's influence on Carnap: Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock: The young Carnap's unknown master: Husserl's influence on Der Raum and Der logische Aufbau der Welt. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, xii + 138 pp, GB£50 HB
pp. 297-299(3)
Author: Richardson, Alan

For Kuhn, anything goes: Stefano Gattei: Thomas Kuhn's “Linguistic Turn” and the legacy of logical empiricism: incommensurability, rationality, and the search for truth, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008, 292 pp, £60 HB
pp. 301-304(4)
Author: Reisch, George

Gothic visuality: Roland Recht: Believing and seeing: the art of Gothic cathedrals, trans. Mary Whitall, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, 376 pp, US$ 45.00 HB
pp. 305-310(6)
Author: Shortell, Ellen

Stones and stars: Daryn Lehoux: Astronomy, weather, and calendars in the ancient world: parapegmata and related texts in classical and near-eastern societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, xiv + 566 pp, £65, US$125 HB
pp. 311-313(3)
Author: Evans, James

Astrological talismans in the middle ages and the renaissance: Jérôme Torrella (Hieronymus Torrella): Opus praeclarum de imaginibus astrologicis. Edited by Nicolas Weill-Parot (Micrologus Library 23). SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, Florence, 2008, pp. 304, €48 PB
pp. 315-318(4)
Author: Rutkin, H.

Imagining possibilities: in honour of Amos Funkenstein: Robert S. Westman and David Biale (eds): Thinking impossibilities: the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2008, viii + 365 pp, US$65.00 HB
pp. 319-322(4)
Author: Lipphardt, Veronika

Mostly, and much, about steno: Gary D. Rosenberg (ed.): The revolution in geology from renaissance to the enlightenment. The geological society of America, Boulder, 2009, vii + 283 pp, US$ 80.00 HB
pp. 323-327(5)
Author: Oldroyd, David

Two 19th-century French physical scientists: Theresa Levitt: The shadow of enlightenment. Optical and political transparency 1789-1848. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, iv + 152 pp, US$70.00 HB
pp. 329-331(3)
Author: Crosland, M.

An interesting ride: George Mandler, A history of modern experimental psychology: from James and Wundt to cognitive science: MIT Press, London, 2007, ix + 287 pp, UK £20.95 PB
pp. 333-335(3)
Author: Chernoff, Nathalie

The radio revolution in astronomy: Woodruff T. Sullivan III: Cosmic noise: a history of early radio astronomy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, xxxii + 542 pp. US$140.00 HB
pp. 337-339(3)
Author: Munns, David

Constructions aplenty, gadgets galore: Cesare Rossi, Flavio Russo and Ferruccio Russo: Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors to the Present, Springer (History of Mechanism and Machine Science 8, 2009), xvi + 340 pp, €79.95, US$109.00, £72.00HB
pp. 341-343(3)
Author: Deakin, Michael

Open secrets: reading and understanding: James Douglas Fleming: Milton's secrecy and philosophical hermeneutics, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Hampshire, 2008, xiv + 196 pp, 55.00 HB
pp. 345-348(4)
Author: Lynch, Sandra