Next Home Previous Speculation Peter Achinstein Reviewed by Samuel Schindler Speculation: Within and about Science Peter Achinstein Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £19.99 ISBN 9780190615055 What is a scientific speculation? What epistemic attitude should one take towards speculation in science? These are two of the central, hitherto little discussed, questions Achinstein seeks to shed light on in his book.

Next Home Previous The Goodness Paradox Richard Wrangham Reviewed by Ronald J. Planer The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution Richard Wrangham New York: Pantheon Books, 2019, £25.00 ISBN 9781101870907 Richard Wrangham’s The Goodness Paradox is an excellent book.

Next Home Previous PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE ALEX BROADBENT Reviewed by Shane N. Glackin Philosophy of Medicine Alex Broadbent Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £64.00/£19.99 ISBN 9780190612139/ 9780190612146 Despite what the title might suggest, this handsome new volume is neither a textbook nor a comprehensive treatment of the field of philosophy of medicine;

Next Home Previous Measuring Utility Ivan Moscati Reviewed by William Peden Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics Ivan Moscati Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, £22.99 ISBN 9780199372775 In late-nineteenth-century economics, there was an epoch-defining shift from the labour theory of value to the marginal utility theory of value.

Next Home Previous The Philosophy of Social Evolution Jonathan Birch Reviewed by Carl Brusse & Kim Sterelny The Philosophy of Social Evolution Jonathan Birch Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £30.00 ISBN 9780198733058 1 Introduction It is obvious that some scientific ideas are more powerful than others, for some spawn much productive research.

Next Home Previous Philosophy and Climate Science Eric Winsberg Reviewed by Greg Lusk Philosophy and Climate Science Eric Winsberg Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, £71.99/£21.99 ISBN 9781316646922/9781108164290 To some extent, it is surprising that a book like this was not published sooner.

Next Home Previous The Fight against Doubt Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann Reviewed by Katherine Furman The Fight against Doubt: How to Bridge the Gap between Scientists and the Public Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, £25.99 ISBN 9780190869229 There is increasing concern about public distrust in science as the consequences of this distrust become clear:

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.

Next Home Previous What’s Left of Human Nature? Maria Kronfeldner Reviewed by Stephen M. Downes What’s Left of Human Nature?

Next Home Previous THE MISINFORMATION AGE Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall Reviewed by Erin J. Nash The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019, £18.99 ISBN 9780300234015 The presence and persistence of misinformation and false beliefs about scientific issues within my social networks was actually what led me to philosophy.

Next Home Previous An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism John Wright Reviewed by Elay Shech An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism: Defending Realism without Inference to the Best Explanation John Wright Cham: Springer, 2018, £69.99 ISBN 9783030022181 Scientific realism regarding a given theory can be understood as a common-sensical position holding that both observable and unobservable entities postulated by