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

Next Home Previous The Evolution of Moral Progress Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell Reviewed by Michael Brownstein and Daniel Kelly The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £25.99 ISBN 9780190868413 Trend-spotters will have noticed a resurgence of interest in the idea of moral progress.

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

Next Home Previous Laws of Nature Walter Ott and Lydia Patton Reviewed by Tyler Hildebrand Laws of Nature Walter Ott and Lydia Patton ( eds ) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £50.00 ISBN 9780198746775 This edited collection nicely displays the impressive breadth of philosophically interesting issues pertaining to laws and, as one would expect from this group of contributors, the essays are of high quality.

Next Home Previous Causality, Probability, and Medicine Donald Gillies Reviewed by Rani Lill Anjum Causality, Probability, and Medicine Donald Gillies London: Routledge, 2018, HB £100/PB £29.99 ISBN 9781138829282 / 9781138829305 I was delighted to discover this new book by Donald Gillies.

Next Home Previous Pieces of Mind Carrie Figdor Reviewed by Joulia Smortchkova Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates Carrie Figdor Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £40.00 ISBN 9780198809524 When reading claims such as ‘The root cap is an example of plant consciousness or awareness’ (Trewavas [2016]) or ‘Representation of confidence associated with a decision by neurons in the parietal cortex’

Next Home Previous True Enough Catherine Z. Elgin Reviewed by Matteo Colombo True Enough Catherine Z. Elgin Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, £27.00 ISBN 9780262036535 Catherine Elgin’s True Enough is an impressively wide-ranging, meticulously argued, thought-provoking book. Its thesis is that ‘to accommodate the fruits of science […] epistemology should shift its center of gravity from knowledge to understanding’ (p.

Next Home Previous Plant Minds Chauncey Maher Reviewed by Anne Sophie Meincke Plant Minds. A Philosophical Defense Chauncey Maher London: Routledge, 2017, £50.00 ISBN 9781138739192 Do plants have minds?

Next Home Previous Beyond the Dynamical Universe Michael Silberstein, W. M. Stuckey, and Timothy McDevitt Reviewed by Karen Crowther Beyond the Dynamical Universe: Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced Michael Silberstein, W. M. Stuckey, and Timothy McDevitt Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, £55 ISBN 9780198807087 Many of the greatest problems in fundamental physics, cosmology, and

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.

Next Home Previous THEORETICAL VIRTUES IN SCIENCE SAMUEL SCHINDLER Reviewed by Rune Nyrup Theoretical Virtues in Science: Uncovering Reality through Theory Samuel Schindler Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, £75.00 ISBN 9781108422260 Is philosophy of science best carried out at a fine-grained level, focusing on the theories and methods of individual sciences?