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Adam Ferner reviews Everything Flows, by Nicholson and Dupré

Adam Ferner

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 Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology
 

Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré (

 eds

) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £55 (hardback)/free (ebook) ISBN 9780198779636 For a few years now there have been strange rumblings emanating from Exeter.

Nicholson and Dupré, Everything Flows

Michela Massimi

Next Home Previous Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered Stéphanie Ruphy




Reviewed by Michela Massimi

 Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)unity of Science

Stéphanie Ruphy Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016, £42.50 ISBN 9780822944584 Scientific pluralism is a timely and important topic in contemporary philosophy of science.

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Atoosa Kasirzadeh reviews Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge, by Boyer-Kassem et al.

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Reviewed by Atoosa Kasirzadeh

 Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge

Thomas Boyer-Kassem, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Weisberg (

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) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £55.00 ISBN 9780190680534 Scientific collaboration is taking place

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David Corfield

Next Home Previous Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense Roi Wagner




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 Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense: Histories and Philosophies of Mathematical Practice

Roi Wagner Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, £37.95 ISBN 9780691171715 Reading the opening pages of this book, an enormous sympathy welled up in me towards its author.

Roi Wagner, Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense

Christopher Clarke reviews Understanding Institutions, by Francesco Guala

Christopher Clarke

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 Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of Living Together

Francesco Guala Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, £27.95 ISBN 9780691171784 If you take a philosophical interest in social ontology, either as a specialist or

Francesco Guala&#8217;s Understanding Institutions

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Next Home Previous Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations Margaret Morrison




Reviewed by Alexander Reutlinger and Stephan Hartmann

 Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations

Margaret Morrison New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, £44.49 (hardback) ISBN 9780199380275 In her new book

 Reconstructing Reality

(henceforth RR), Margaret Morrison’s

Margaret Morrison&#8217;s Reconstructing Reality

John S Wilkins reviews Biological Essentialism by Michael Devitt

John S. Wilkins

Michael Devitt

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Michael Devitt Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, £60.00 ISBN 9780198840282 Cite as: Wilkins, J. S. [2023]: ‘Michael Devitt’s

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Max Bautista Perpinyà and Charles H Pence review Catastrophic Thinking, by David Sepkoski

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 Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

David Sepkoski Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020, £28.00 ISBN 9780226348612

 Catastrophic Thinking

is a story about how ideas about extinction motivate considerations about biodiversity.

David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking

Joshua Habgood-Coote reviews Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review, by Neil Levy

Joshua Habgood-Coote

Neil Levy

 PHILOSOPHY, BULLSHIT, AND PEER REVIEW

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 Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review


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Neil Levy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, £17.00 ISBN 9781009256308 Cite as: Habgood-Coote, J. [2025]: ‘ Neil Levy’s

Neil Levy,  Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review

Katherine Valde reviews Mechanisms in Science, by Stavros Ioannidis &amp;

Katherine Valde

Stavros Ioannidis &amp; Stathis Psillos

 MECHANISMS IN SCIENCE

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Aja Watkins and Miguel Ohnesorge review Science on a Mission by Naomi Oreskes

Aja Watkins &#038; Miguel Ohnesorge

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 Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean

Naomi Oreskes Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021, £32.00 9780226732381 In

 Science on a Mission,

Naomi Oreskes aims to document how US Navy funding shaped research in oceanography from the twentieth century through to the present.

Naomi Oreskes, Science on a Mission

David L Barack

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Sebastian De Haro reviews Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity, by James Read

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James Read

 BACKGROUND INDEPENDENCE IN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

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James Read Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, £70.00 ISBN 9780192889119 Cite

James Read, Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Daniel C Burnston reviews The Brain Abstracted, by Mazviita Chirimuuta

Daniel Burnston

Mazviita Chirimuuta

 THE BRAIN ABSTRACTED

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 The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience


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Mazviita Chirimuuta Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024, £48.00 ISBN 9780262548045 Cite as: Burnston, D. C. [2024]:

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Robert Hudson reviews The AI Mirror, by Shannon Vallor

Robert Hudson

Shannon Vallor

 THE AI MIRROR

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 The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking


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Shannon Vallor Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, £22.99 ISBN 9780197759066 Cite as: Hudson, R. [2025]: ‘Shannon Vallor’s

 The AI Mirror

’,

Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror

Chris Smeenk reviews Accelerating Expansion, by Gordon Belot

Chris Smeenk

Gordon Belot

 ACCELERATING EXPANSION

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 Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant


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Gordon Belot Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, £60.00 ISBN 9780192866462 Cite as: Smeenk, C. [2024]: ‘Gordon Belot’s

Gordon Belot, Accelerating Expansion

Tim Lewens reviews Why Human Nature Matters, by Matteo Mameli, and The Quest for Human Nature, by  Marco J Nathan

Tim Lewens

Matteo Mameli

 WHY HUMAN NATURE MATTERS

and Marco J Nathan

 THE QUEST FOR HUMAN NATURE

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 Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics


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Matteo Mameli London: Bloomsbury, 2024,

Matteo Mameli, Why Human Nature Matters // Marco J Nathan, The Quest for Human Nature

Felipe De Brigard reviews The Entangled Brain, by Luiz Pessoa

Felipe De Brigard

Luiz Pessoa

 THE ENTANGLED BRAIN

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 The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together


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Luiz Pessoa Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022, £xxxx ISBN 9780262544603 Cite as: De Brigard, F. [2024]: ‘Luiz Pessoa’s

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Luiz Pessoa, The Entangled Brain

Michael Bishop reviews Scientific Epistemology, by Hilary Kornblith

Michael Bishop

Hilary Kornblith

 SCIENTIFIC EPISTEMOLOGY

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 Scientific Epistemology


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Hilary Kornblith Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, £74/00 / £19.99 ISBN 9780197609552 / 9780197609552 Cite as: Bishop, M. [2024]: ‘Hilary Kornblith’s

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Hilary Kornblith, Scientific Epistemology

Naftali Weinberger reviews Conjunctive Explanations, edited by Jonah Schupbach and David Glass

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Jonah N Schupbach and David H Glass

 CONJUNCTIVE EXPLANATIONS

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 Conjunctive Explanations: The Nature, Epistemology, and Psychology of Explanatory Multiplicity


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Jonah Schupbach and David Glass New

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Jo Wolff reviews Naturalism beyond the Limits of Science, by Nina Emery

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Nina Emery

 NATURALISM BEYOND THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE

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 Naturalism beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing


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Nina Emery New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, £54.00 ISBN

Nina Emery, Naturalism beyond the Limits of Science

Philip Gerrans reviews Cognitive Gadgets by Cecelia Heyes

Philip Gerrans

Cecelia Heyes

 COGNITIVE GADGETS

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 Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking


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Cecelia Heyes Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018, £40.95 ISBN 9780674980150 Cite as: Gerrans, P. [2023]: ‘Cecelia Heyes’s

 Cognitive Gadgets

’,

Cecelia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets  //  Reviewed

Janella Baxter reviews Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences by Kolja Ehrenstein

Janella Baxter

Kolja Ehrenstein

 CAUSAL PLURALISM IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

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 Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences: A Journey along the Frontiers of Conceptual Plurality


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Kolja Ehrenstein Cham: Springer, 2022, £89.99 ISBN 9783030879440 Cite as:

Kolja Ehrenstein, Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences

Carrie Figdor reviews Cognitive Ontology, by Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Carrie Figdor

Muhammad Ali Khalidi

 COGNITIVE ONTOLOGY

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 Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind–Brain Sciences


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Muhammad Ali Khalidi Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, £75.00 ISBN 9781009223669 Cite as: Figdor, C. [2023]:

Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Cognitive Ontology

Patricia Rich reviews The Dynamics of Science, by Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block

Patricia Rich

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Ramsey and Block, The Dynamics of Science

Calvin Warner reviews A Better Ape, by Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell

Calvin Warner

Home A Better Ape Victor Kumar &amp; Richmond Campbell Reviewed by Calvin Warner

 A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human

Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, £19.99 ISBN 9780197600122

 Introduction

The theory of evolution by natural selection is likely the most revolutionary idea in the history of science.

Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell, A Better Ape

Jiji Zhang reviews A Logical Theory of Causality, by Alexander Bochman

Jiji Zhang

Home A Logical Theory of Causality Alexander Bochman Reviewed by Jiji Zhang

 A Logical Theory of Causality

Alexander Bochman Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, £48.00 ISBN 9780262045322 This is a rich and illuminating book by a seasoned researcher in the field of artificial intelligence.

Alexander Bochman, A Logical Theory of Causality

Jessica Bolker reviews Model Organisms, by Rachel A Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli

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Home Model Organisms Rachel A Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli Reviewed by Jessica Bolker

 Model Organisms

Rachel A Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, £15.00/OA ISBN 9781108742320 Model organisms dwell at the interface of philosophy and biology, a location that raises many interesting epistemological issues.

Ankeny and Leonelli, Model Organisms

José Díez reviews Modelling Nature, by Roman Frigg and James Nguyen

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Home Modelling Nature Roman Frigg and James Nguyen Reviewed by José Díez

 Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation

Roman Frigg and James Nguyen Cham: Springer, 2020, £79.99 / £59.99 ISBN 9783030451523 / 9783030451554 Roman Frigg and James Nguyen’s

 Modelling Nature

is a comprehensive, critical review of the latest developments in the modelling literature.

Frigg and Nguyen, Modelling Nature

Howard Sankey reviews Kuhn’s Intellectual Path, by K Brad Wray

Howard Sankey

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 Kuhn’s Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

K Brad Wray Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, £75.00 ISBN 9781316512173 Thomas Kuhn’s extraordinarily successful book,

 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

, was one of the most significant works in the history and philosophy of science of the latter half of the

K Brad Wray, Kuhn’s Intellectual Path

Gabe Dupre reviews Representation of Language, by Georges Rey

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 Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics

Georges Rey Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, £65 ISBN 9780198855637 Analytic philosophy’s relationship with generative linguistics has been highly variable.

Georges Rey, Representation of Language

Majid D Beni reviews Materialism, by Brown and Ladyman

Majid D Beni

Next Home Previous Materialism Robin Gordon Brown and James Ladyman Reviewed by Majid D Beni

 Materialism: A Philosophical Inquiry

Robin Gordon Brown and James Ladyman London: Routledge, 2019, £110 / £14.99 ISBN 9780367201333 / 9780367201340

 Materialism: A Philosophical Inquiry

by Robin Gordon Brown and James Ladyman presents an introduction to the history and philosophy of materialism for non-specialists.

Brown and Ladyman, Materialism

John Symons and Syed Abumusab review On the Foundations of Computing, by Giuseppe Primiero

John Symons and Syed Abumusab

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 On the Foundations of Computing

Giuseppe Primiero Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £40.00 ISBN 9780198835653 Philosophy of computer science has become a lively and diverse enterprise.

Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing

Matteo Colombo reviews Neurocognitive Mechanisms by Gualtiero Piccinini

Matteo Colombo

Home Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

 Neurocognitive Mechanisms

:

 Explaining Biological Cognition

Gualtiero Piccinini Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, £80.00 ISBN 9780198866282 Gualtiero Piccinini’s

 Neurocognitive Mechanisms

clarifies and addresses several foundational questions in the cognitive sciences, including: How does a multi-level mechanism like the brain

Gualtiero Piccinini, Neurocognitive Mechanisms

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Next Home Previous Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge Kareem Khalifa Reviewed by Henk W. de Regt and Anna E. Höhl

 Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge

Kareem Khalifa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, £78.99 (£24.99) ISBN 9781107195639 (9781316646915) Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest among philosophers of science in the topic of understanding.

Kareem Khalifa, Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge

Adrian Downey reviews The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind, edited by Sprevak &amp;

Adrian Downey

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Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo Reviewed by Adrian Downey

 The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind

Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo (

 eds

) London: Routledge, 2019, £190.00 ISBN 9781138186682 In their introduction to this volume, Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo highlight its three aims: to constitute a ‘time-capsule’ of

Sprevak &#038; Colombo, The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind

Samuel Ruhmkorff reviews Resisting Scientific Realism, by K. Brad Wray

Samuel Ruhmkorff

Next Home Previous Resisting Scientific Realism K. Brad Wray Reviewed by Samuel Ruhmkorff

 Resisting Scientific Realism

K. Brad Wray Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, £75.00 ISBN 9781108415217 K. Brad Wray’s new book is an excellent overview of the scientific realism debate, as well as a development of the state-of-the-art.

K. Brad Wray, Resisting Scientific Realism

Daniel Molter reviews Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices, edited by Bueno et al.

Daniel Molter

Next Home Previous Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices Otávio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen, and Melinda Bonnie Fagan Reviewed by Daniel Molter

 Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices

Otávio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen, and Melinda Bonnie Fagan (

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) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £55.00 ISBN 9780190636814 Philosophers tend to approach the question ‘what is an individual?’ with two axiomatic assumptions:

Bueno et al., Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices //Reviewed

Michael Liston reviews Physics Avoidance, by Mark Wilson

Michael Liston

Next Home Previous PHYSICS AVOIDANCE MARK WILSON




Reviewed by Michael Liston

 Physics Avoidance: Essays in Conceptual Strategy

Mark Wilson Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £60.00 ISBN 9780198803478 This collection of nine free-standing essays offers a fresh perspective on science and language and a fascinating critique of much of contemporary philosophy.

Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance

Marius Stan

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Reviewed by Marius Stan

 
 The Deep Metaphysics of Space: An Alternative History and Ontology beyond Substantivalism and Relationism
 

Edward Slowik Cham: Springer, 2016, £58.99 ISBN 9783319448671 Debates on the ontology of space used to gesture at some root in history—of philosophical groundings of dynamics

Edward Slowik, The Deep Metaphysics of Space

Rosenberg and Glymour review Actual Causality, by Joseph Y. Halpern

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Reviewed by Ian Rosenberg and Clark Glymour

 Actual Causality

Joseph Y. Halpern Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016, £40 ISBN 9780262035026

 
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Theories of ‘actual causation’ aim to provide an informative guide for assessing which events cause which others in circumstances where almost

Joseph Y. Halpern, Actual Causality

Kerry McKenzie reviews Scientific Ontology, by Anjan Chakravartty

Kerry McKenzie

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 Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology

Anjan Chakravartty Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £47.99 ISBN 9780190651459 According to Sayre’s law, ‘academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small’. Though I anticipate the usual grousing over whether, strictly speaking,

Anjan Chakravartty, Scientific Ontology

David Glick

Next Home Previous The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy Richard Healey




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 The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy

Richard Healey Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £35.00 ISBN 9780198714057 What is it that’s revolutionary about quantum theory (QT)? Traditionally, it has been thought that the answer consists in novel and surprising aspects of the world it describes:

Richard Healey, The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy

Sorin Bangu reviews Because without Cause, by Marc Lange

Sorin Bangu

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 Because without Cause: Non-causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics

Marc Lange Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £56.00 ISBN 9780190269487 If years ago Wesley Salmon tried to put ‘cause’ back into the ‘because’ (of explanation), in this book Marc Lange aims to take it out.

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More precisely, he

Marc Lange, &#8216;Because without Cause&#8217;

Seamus Bradley

Next Home Previous Decision Theory with a Human Face Richard Bradley




Reviewed by Seamus Bradley

 Decision Theory with a Human Face

Richard Bradley Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, £75.00 ISBN 9781107003217 This is an ambitious book on an interesting topic.

Richard Bradley, &#8216;Decision Theory with a Human Face&#8217;

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Next Home Previous Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology Robert Chapman and Alison Wylie




Reviewed by Sabina Leonelli

 Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology

Robert Chapman and Alison Wylie London: Bloomsbury, 2016, £60 ISBN 9781472525277 This volume emerges from years of collaboration between the world-leading philosopher of archaeology, Alison Wylie, and eminent archaeologist Robert Chapman.

Chapman and Wylie, &#8216;Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology&#8217; // Reviewed by Sabina Leonelli

Catherine Herfeld

Next Home Previous Science outside the Laboratory Marcel Boumans




Reviewed by Catherine Herfeld

 Science outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics

Marcel Boumans Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, £38.99 ISBN 9780199388288 In this book, Marcel Boumans takes up an under-researched topic in philosophy of science, namely, the reliability of measurement in field

Marcel Boumans, &#8216;Science outside the Laboratory&#8217;

Michael Wilde

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 Making Medical Knowledge
 

Miriam Solomon Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, £35 ISBN 9780198732617 In

 Making Medical Knowledge

, Miriam Solomon describes a variety of epistemological approaches, or ‘methods’, employed by medical researchers and practitioners.

Miriam Solomon&#8217;s Making Medical Knowledge

Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Next Home Previous Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice Catherine Kendig




Reviewed by Muhammad Ali Khalidi

 Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

Catherine Kendig (

 ed

.) Oxford: Routledge, 2015, £110 ISBN 9781848935402 Philosophers once thought that natural kinds were a manageable bunch, and that they could be grouped into a few taxonomic systems

Catherine Kendig&#8217;s Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

Shane N. Glackin reviews The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher, by Couch and Pfeifer

Shane N. Glackin

Next Home Previous The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher Mark Couch and Jessica Pfeifer (

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Reviewed by Shane N. Glackin

 The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher

Mark Couch and Jessica Pfeifer (

 eds

) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, £47.99 ISBN 9780199381357 It would be an exaggeration to say that this handsome edited volume provides a

 full

overview of Philip

Couch and Pfeifer&#8217;s The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher

Arif Ahmed reviews Risk and Rationality, by Lara Buchak

Arif Ahmed

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 Risk and Rationality

Lara Buchak Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, £45 (hardback) ISBN 9780199672165

 Expected Utility

Subjective decision theory has two branches: descriptive and normative. The descriptive one says in general terms how actual people behave. The normative one says how rational ones do.

Lara Buchak&#8217;s Risk and Rationality

Andrew Buskell reviews Surfing Uncertainty, by Andy Clark

Andrew Buskell

Next Home Previous Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Brain Andy Clark




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 Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Brain

Andy Clark Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, £20 (hardback) ISBN 9780190217013 I have a vivid memory from my undergraduate degree in psychology: a short video, no longer than five seconds long, showing the

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Charles H. Pence reviews How Biology Shapes Philosophy, edited by David Livingstone Smith

Charles H. Pence

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 How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism

David Livingstone Smith (

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.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, £82.99/£21.99 ISBN 9781107055834/9781107628205 As anyone who has put together a syllabus for a survey course in the philosophy of biology can attest, there is something of a dual

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Anneli Jefferson, Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?

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