Metascience

The physics and metaphysics of identity and individuality: Steven French and Décio Krause: Identity in physics: A historical, philosophical, and formal analysis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, 440 pp, £68.00 HB
pp. 225-251(27)
Authors: Howard, Don; Fraassen, Bas; Bueno, Otávio; Castellani, Elena; Crosilla, Laura; French, Steven; Krause, Décio

Sex and sensibility: The role of social selection: Roughgarden, Joan: The genial gene: Deconstructing Darwinian selfishness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, ix+261pp, $40.00 HB, $18.95 PB
pp. 253-277(25)
Authors: Milam, Erika; Millstein, Roberta; Potochnik, Angela; Roughgarden, Joan

The intelligibility of change in Descartes
pp. 279-285(7)
Author: Della Rocca, Michael

From form to mechanism: Helen Hattab: Descartes on forms and mechanisms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, x+236 pp, US$ 90.00 HB
pp. 287-290(4)
Author: Gorham, Geoffrey

A three-cornered dispute about God and nature: Steven Nadler: The best of all possible worlds: A story of philosophers, God and evil in the age of reason. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010, 320pp, $18.95 PB
pp. 291-293(3)
Author: Pyle, Andrew

From scientia to science: Tom Sorell, G. A. J. Rogers and Jill Kraye (eds): Scientia in early modern philosophy: Seventeenth-century thinkers on demonstrative knowledge from first principles. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, xvi+139, £99.95HB
pp. 295-297(3)
Author: Anstey, Peter

Getting physical: Empiricism's medical History: Charles T. Wolfe and Ofer Gal (eds): The body as object and instrument of knowledge: Embodied empiricism in early modern science. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, x+349pp, €139.95 HB
pp. 299-301(3)
Author: Gascoigne, John

Leibniz: the practical metaphysician: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Protogaea. Translated and edited by Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008, xlii+173 pp, $55.00 HB $35.00 PB
pp. 303-307(5)
Author: Oldroyd, David

The complexity of the relationship between science and religion: Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor and Stephen Pumfrey (eds): Science and religion: New historical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xiv+317pp, £55 HB
pp. 309-311(3)
Author: Scott, Michael

The inevitability of particular interpretations: catholicism and science: Peter M. J. Hess and Paul L. Allen: Catholicism and science, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2008, xxvi + 241 pp, US $65.00, £44.95 HB
pp. 313-315(3)
Author: O'Leary, Don

The usual suspects: Richard Dawkins (ed.): The Oxford book of modern science writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, xviii+419 pp, £9.99 PB
pp. 317-320(4)
Author: Erickson, Mark

Stepping-up the historiography of peripheral popularisation: F. Papanelopoulou, A. Nieto-Galan and E. Perdiguero (eds): Popularizing science and technology in the European periphery, 1800-2000. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, xix+284 pp, £60.00 HB
pp. 321-324(4)
Author: Fyfe, Aileen

Victorian bodies in heat: Barri J. Gold: ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian literature and science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010, xi+343pp, $30.00 HB
pp. 325-328(4)
Author: Clarke, Bruce

Julian Huxley on Darwinian evolution: A snapshot of a theory: Julian Huxley: Evolution the modern synthesis: The definitive edition. Edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2010, ix+770pp, US$35.00 PB
pp. 329-333(5)
Author: Ruse, Michael

Owen revisited: Rupke Nicolaas and Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin: A revised edition. London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 344 p, £20.00 PB
pp. 335-337(3)
Author: McGhie, Henry

Against species essentialism: John S. Wilkins: Species: A history of the idea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv+320 pp, $49.95 HB
pp. 339-341(3)
Author: Rieppel, Olivier

Selection bias?: Stephen G. Brush: Choosing selection: The revival of natural selection in Anglo-American evolutionary biology, 1930-1970. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009, viii+183pp, $35.00 PB
pp. 343-346(4)
Author: Cowles, Henry

Eugenics: Then and now: Jan A. Witkowski and John R. Inglis (eds.): Davenport's dream: 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008, xiii+490pp, $55 HB
pp. 347-349(3)
Authors: Müller-Wille, Staffan

Some foundational debates in philosophy of biology: Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp (eds): Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, xii+426pp, £21.99
pp. 351-354(4)
Author: Ioannidis, Stavros

Diversity and complexity are easy: Daniel W. McShea and Robert N. Brandon: Biology's first law: the tendency for diversity and complexity to increase in evolutionary systems. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010, xiv+170pp, $20 PB
pp. 355-358(4)
Author: Shanahan, Timothy

Philosophy should and can contribute to bioethics: Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly, and Søren Holm (eds): Cutting through the surface: Philosophical approaches to bioethics. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009, 258pp, €54 HB
pp. 359-361(3)
Author: Langendyk, Vicki

A literary approach to scientific practice: R. I. G. Hughes: The theoretical practices of physics: Philosophical essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 289pp, £35.00, $ 75.00 HB
pp. 363-367(5)
Author: Bradley, Seamus

Mechanism and modernity: Gregor Schiemann: Hermann von Helmholtz's mechanism: The loss of certainty. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, x+282 pp, €106.95 HB
pp. 369-372(4)
Author: Schickore, Jutta

Putting the `empiricism' in `logical empiricism': the director's cut: Thomas Uebel: Empiricism at the Crossroads: The Vienna Circle's Protocol-Sentence Debate. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2007, xvii+518 pp, US $89.95 PB
pp. 373-376(4)
Author: Frost-Arnold, Greg

Linguistics and the Vienna Circle: Siobhan Chapman: Language and empiricism: After the Vienna Circle. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 191 p, $85.00 HB
pp. 377-379(3)
Author: Uebel, Thomas

Reality's next top model?: Uwe Meixner: Modelling metaphysics: The metaphysics of a model. Frankfurt, Paris, Lancaster, New Brunswick: Ontos Verlag, 2010, 274pp, €79.00 HB
pp. 381-383(3)
Author: Kuorikoski, Jaakko

Modal trees: Rod Girle: Modal logics and philosophy, Second edition, Durham, Acumen, 2009, pp. viii+248, £19.99 PB.
pp. 385-388(4)
Author: Stephanou, Yannis

Visual tools and the quiet chemical revolution: Alan J. Rocke: Image and reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, xxvi+275pp, US$45.00 HB
pp. 389-393(5)
Author: Nye, Mary

Mineralogy, chemistry, botany, medicine, geology, agriculture, meteorology, classification,…: The life and times of John Walker (1730-1803), Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University: Matthew D. Eddy: The language of mineralogy: John Walker, chemistry and the Edinburgh medical school, 1750-1800. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008, xxi+309pp, £60.00 HB
pp. 395-399(5)
Author: Oldroyd, David

Insights into the history of chemistry: Colin A. Russell: From atoms to molecules: Studies in the history of chemistry from the 19th century. Variorum collected studies series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009, 342pp, $134.95 HB
pp. 401-402(2)
Author: Ramberg, Peter

Gathering the fragments of an enigma: Heather Wolffram: The stepchildren of science: Psychical research and parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870-1939. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009, 342 pp, $91 HB
pp. 403-405(3)
Author: Dyde, Sean

Just one damn thing after another: Ari Ben-Menahem: Historical encyclopedia of the natural and mathematical sciences. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, xxvii+5988pp, €2,245.50 HB
pp. 407-412(6)
Author: Rickles, Dean

Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary (eds): Materials and expertise in early modern Europe: Between market and laboratory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, 408pp, $50 HB
pp. 413-414(2)
Author: Simon, Jonathan

Friedrich Stadler (ed.): The present situation in the philosophy of science. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 422pp, €139,95 HB
pp. 415-416(2)
Author: Psillos, Stathis