Home Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics Shan Gao Reviewed by Steven French Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics Shan Gao ( ed .) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, £64.00 ISBN 9780197501665 For many years any mention of consciousness in the context of quantum physics was generally restricted to those popular accounts that might be found on the ‘New Age’ or ‘Spiritual’ bookshelves.

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Home Knowing Science Alexander Bird Reviewed by Don Ross Knowing Science Alexander Bird Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, £72 ISBN 9780199606658 In this transparently organized and argued book, Bird defends two main theses: that the aim of science is production of (scientific) knowledge, and that even moderate empiricism is an incorrect account of the epistemology of science.

Home Science on a Mission Naomi Oreskes Reviewed by Aja Watkins & Miguel Ohnesorge 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.

Home Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? Anneli Jefferson Reviewed by Dominic Murphy Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? Anneli Jefferson London: Routledge, 2022, £48.99 ISBN 9780367421380 It is greatly to the credit of Anneli Jefferson that she has managed to write a book on this oft-discussed topic that is actually interesting.

Home Catastrophic Thinking David Sepkoski Reviewed by Max Bautista Perpinyà & Charles H Pence 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.

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Home The Nature of Physical Computation Oron Shagrir Reviewed by Matteo Colombo The Nature of Physical Computation Oron Shagrir Oxford University Press, 2022, £47.99 ISBN 9780197552384 Recently, a computer engineer claimed that the LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) chatbot that he helped to build had become conscious, seemingly able to think like a human.

Home The Art of Abduction Igor Douven Reviewed by Kevin Davey The Art of Abduction Igor Douven Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022, £41.97 ISBN 9780262046701 Igor Douven’s most recent book, The Art of Abduction , summarizes much of the author’s research on the topic of abduction that he has conducted over the last several decades, as well as gesturing at intriguing ways it may be developed in the future.

Home A Middle Way Robert W Batterman Reviewed by Mariam Thalos A Middle Way: A Non-fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics Robert W. Batterman Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £47.99 ISBN 978-0197568613 Before a theorist may even begin to offer an explanatory model (correct, useful, or otherwise) of some aspect of the universe, that theorist is required to settle in advance—and often implicitly—the following questions:

Home The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment John Bickle, Carl F Craver &