Next Home Previous The Multiple Realization Book Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro Reviewed by Marion Godman The Multiple Realization Book Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, £50.00 ISBN 9780198732891 Multiple realization is rather casually thought by many scientists and philosophers to be the saving grace of scientific

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

Next Home Previous Making Medical Knowledge Miriam Solomon Reviewed by Michael Wilde 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.

Next Home Previous Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy Carl Gillett Reviewed by Elanor Taylor Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy Carl Gillett Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, £52.99 ISBN 9781107075351 In Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy, Carl Gillett offers a bold new framework for philosophical and scientific discourse about

Next Home Previous Organisms, Agency, and Evolution D. M. Walsh Reviewed by John Dupré Organisms, Agency, and Evolution D. M. Walsh Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, £ 64.99 ISBN 9781107122109 The mantle of heir to Darwin’s famous theory of evolution by natural selection is generally claimed by the so-called neo-Darwinism that derives from the Modern Synthesis, announced

Next Home Previous Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher ( eds ) Reviewed by Julia Bursten Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher ( eds ) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, £38.99 ISBN 9780190494599 Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher’s edited volume, Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry boasts a

Next Home Previous Data-centric Biology: A Philosophical Study Sabina Leonelli Reviewed by Adrian Currie Data-centric Biology: A Philosophical Study Sabina Leonelli Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, £73.50/£24.50 (hardback/paperback) ISBN 9780226416335/9780226416472 Experimental biology has witnessed an industrial revolution.

Next Home Previous Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Brain Andy Clark Reviewed by Andrew Buskell 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

Next Home Previous A Natural History of Human Morality Michael Tomasello Reviewed by Jonathan Birch A Natural History of Human Morality Michael Tomasello Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, £27.95 (hardback) ISBN 9780674088641 Working together creates mutual obligations.

Next Home Previous Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account Gualtiero Piccinini Reviewed by Michael Rescorla Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account Gualtiero Piccinini Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, £35 (hardback) ISBN 9780199658855 Gualtiero Piccinini’s Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account develops a systematic theory of computing systems.

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