1 April 2017
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Misanthropocene: Review of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway, Duke University Press, 2016 -
Dreams of a super collider: Review of Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Supercollider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, and Adrienne W. Kolb, University of Chicago Press, 2015 -
The Forgotten Fossil: The Wild Homo calpicus of Gibraltar -
The Missing Skull – Professor Lundborg and the mismeasure of grandma -
The “Make Love, Not War” Ape: Bonobos and Late Twentieth-Century Explanations for War and Peace -
Toxic confusion: the dilemma of antibiotic regulation in West German food production (1951–1990) -
Stephen Jay Gould and the Value of Neutrality of Science During the Cold War -
The childhood lead poisoning epidemic in historical perspective -
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Sense of Life -
Governing the toxics and the pollutants. France, Great Britain, 1750–1850 -
The Ascent of Man and the Politics of Humanity’s Evolutionary Future -
Special Issue Introduction: Science in the Public Eye -
Gaining control over archeological data and time: Review of The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America’s Ice Age Past, by David J. Meltzer, University of Chicago Press, 2015 -
From Precaution to Peril: Public Relations Across Forty Years of Genetic Engineering -
The hidden microworld of J.T. Quekett -
Science for the Masses: Review of Life on Display: Revolutionizing U. S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century by Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain, University of Chicago Press, 2014 -
CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today’s Earth System Models -
Science with a British Accent: Review of Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal, Melinda Baldwin, University of Chicago Press, 2015 -
Clinical dimensions of a ‘biological concept’: transsexualism and the interplay between etiological theory and clinical therapy -
Strategies of Containment: Containment (2015), A film by Peter Galison and Robb Moss. -
Prisoners of Solitude: Bringing History to Bear on Prison Health Policy -
Technologies of Distance: Review of “Eye in the Sky” (Raindog Films and Entertainment One Features, 2015). -
Review of Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us at University of Massachusetts, Amherst -
Getting the question right: Review of Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift, Mott T. Greene, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015 -
Darwin’s Body-Snatchers? -
The waste crisis in Campania, South Italy: a historical perspective on an epidemiological controversy -
Was Queen Jane Seymour (1509–1537) Delivered by a Cesarean Section? -
Living in a Toxic World, 1800–2000 -
Process and Impact of Niels Bohr’s Visit to Japan and China in 1937: A Comparative Perspective -
Never pure: Review of Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1740–2010, by Margaret E. Derry, University of Toronto Press, 2015 -
Knowing By Number: Learning Math for Thinking Well -
La Moisissure et la Bactérie: Deconstructing the fable of the discovery of penicillin by Ernest Duchesne -
Arrival: The Circle of Life?: Review of Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, Paramount Pictures, 2016 (116minutes) -
Determining Nuclear Fingerprints: Glove Boxes, Radiation Protection, and the International Atomic Energy Agency -
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Risky Business: Review of The Knick, Cinemax Original Television Series, Season 1, 2014 -
Civilization VI and its Discontents: Review of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (2016) -
Borrowing Physics’ “Epistemological Credit Card”: Review of Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After. Peter Middleton, University of Chicago Press, 2015 -
Imagining Anthropocene Futures: Review of The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, Vintage Books, New York, 2015; and The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, Nightshade Books, New York, 2009. -
From forensic toxicology to biological chemistry: Normal arsenic and the hazards of sensitivity during the nineteenth century -
To understand this, let us step back in history: Review of A Remarkable Journey: The Story of Evolution, R. Paul Thompson, University of Chicago Press, 2015 -
Serving at the pleasure of the state: Review of Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research, Sarah Bridger, Harvard University Press, 2015 -
The turn toward toxins: an essay review -
Gender identity and the politics of etiology -
Introducing In Vivo -
The Lost Worlds of Messmore & Damon -
In defence of story-telling -
Epigenesis in Kant: Recent reconsiderations -
Mechanistic explanation, cognitive systems demarcation, and extended cognition -
Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant on active forces -
Graph-based inductive reasoning -
Introduction: Kant and the empirical sciences -
Deflating Cold War rationality -
Did Samuel Clarke really disavow action at a distance in his correspondence with Leibniz?: Newton, Clarke, and Bentley on gravitation and action at a distance -
Taming theory with thought experiments: Understanding and scientific progress -
Linguistic turns: Scientific Babel, the language of science, and the science of language -
A choice-semantical approach to theoretical truth -
Newton and the ideal of exegetical success -
Democratic values and their role in maximizing the objectivity of science -
Locke on measurement -
Structural realism beyond physics -
Can the behavioral sciences self-correct? A social epistemic study -
Looking forward, not back: Supporting structuralism in the present -
Whewell on the classification of the sciences -
The re-emergence of hyphenated history-and-philosophy-of-science and the testing of theories of scientific change -
Forms of presentism in the history of science. Rethinking the project of historical epistemology -
Carnap on unified science -
Repertoires: A post-Kuhnian perspective on scientific change and collaborative research -
Overlapping ontologies and Indigenous knowledge. From integration to ontological self-determination -
From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation -
Process tracing in political science: What’s the story? -
How we load our data sets with theories and why we do so purposefully -
Analogical reflection as a source for the science of life: Kant and the possibility of the biological sciences -
The experimenters’ regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation -
Philosophical bodies in early modern Europe -
Other histories, other sciences -
Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation -
Silent performances: Are “repertoires” really post-Kuhnian? -
The ontology of quantum field theory: Structural realism vindicated? -
Essentially narrative explanations -
Editorial board and publication information -
Pluto and the platypus: An odd ball and an odd duck – On classificatory norms -
‘Natures’ and ‘Laws’: The making of the concept of law of nature – Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and Roger Bacon (1214/1220–1292) -
Quine’s ‘needlessly strong’ holism -
The many encounters of Thomas Kuhn and French epistemology -
Reactionary responses to the Bad Lot Objection -
Hermann Cohen’s Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode: The history of an unsuccessful book -
Kepler’s optics: Ocular anatomy, the visual faculty, and the continuity-discontinuity debate -
Kant on anatomy and the status of the life sciences -
Who was William Hyde Wollaston? -
Extensional scientific realism vs. intensional scientific realism -
Kepler: Analogies in the search for the law of refraction -
Introduction: Testing philosophical theories -
The contribution of the ontological turn in education: Some methodological and political implications -
Environmental Externalities and Weak Appropriability: Influences on Firm Pollution Reduction Technology Development -
Environmental Externalities and Weak Appropriability -
Two Upper Bounds on Consistency Strength of $negsquare_{aleph_{omega}}$ and Stationary Set Reflection at Two Successive $aleph_{n}$ -
Decision and optimization problems in the unreliable-circuit logic -
Minimizing disjunctive normal forms of pure first-order logic -
Relatively compatible operations in BCK-algebras and some related algebras