Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
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B. Theoretical Approaches to Understanding <strong>Science</strong><br />
10. CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF<br />
SCIENCE<br />
118. ABBAS, Niran. (Ed.) Mapping Michel Serres.<br />
Studies in Literature and <strong>Science</strong>. (x + 259 pp.; bibl.;<br />
index.) Ann Arbor: Univ. <strong>of</strong> Michigan Press, 2005.<br />
ISBN: 0472114387.<br />
Includes works by René GIRARD, William JOHNSEN, Hanjo<br />
BERRESSEM, and Stephen CLUCAS. On Serres, his philosophy<br />
<strong>of</strong> science, his analysis <strong>of</strong> Lucretius, and ancient and<br />
20th-century physics.<br />
119. ABIDIN, Zainal. “<strong>Science</strong> and Metaphysics:<br />
A Methodological Investigation.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A<br />
66/02 (2005): 615.<br />
Dissertation at Indiana University, 2005. Advisers: Friedman,<br />
Michael L., and Noretta Koertge. UMI pub. no. 3163020.<br />
205 pp.<br />
120. ABÍMBÓLÁ, Kólá. “A Critique <strong>of</strong> Methodological<br />
Naturalism.” Sci. Context 19 (<strong>2006</strong>): 191–213.<br />
Critique <strong>of</strong> arguments put forward by Larry Laudan.<br />
121. ACHINSTEIN, Peter. (Ed.) <strong>Science</strong> Rules: A<br />
Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods. (x +<br />
427 pp.; bibl.; index.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins<br />
Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN: 0801879434.<br />
Reviews: [ref. 150]<br />
122. ANDERSEN, Hanne, Peter BARKER, and Xiang<br />
CHEN. The Cognitive Structure <strong>of</strong> Scientific Revolutions.<br />
(xvii + 199 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge,<br />
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, <strong>2006</strong>. ISBN:<br />
0521855756.<br />
Evaluation and extension <strong>of</strong> Kuhn’s ideas from the perspective<br />
<strong>of</strong> cognitive science. Discusses nature <strong>of</strong> normal and<br />
revolutionary science, the function <strong>of</strong> anomalies, and the<br />
nature <strong>of</strong> incommensurability.<br />
123. ARMATTE, Michel, and Amy DAHAN<br />
DALMÉDICO. “Modèles et modélisations, 1950–<br />
2000 : Nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux enjeux.” First<br />
article in a special Issue: Modèles et modélisations,<br />
1950–2000. Rev. Hist. Sci. 57 (2004): 243–303.<br />
See also: BISSELL [ref. 3763]; MORGAN [ref. 3649];<br />
KIEKEN [ref. 3572]; MACKENZIE [ref. 3648]; Amy DA-<br />
HAN DALMÉDICO and Michel ARMATTE, “Bibliographie<br />
générale,” 433–447.<br />
124. BELK, Alan Frederick. “The Semantic View<br />
<strong>of</strong> Scientific Theories: An Alternative to Realism/Instrumentalism.”<br />
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/07<br />
(<strong>2006</strong>): 25<strong>97</strong>.<br />
Dissertation at the University <strong>of</strong> Guelph, 2005. UMI pub. no.<br />
NR04705. 193 pp.<br />
125. BEN-ARI, Moti. Just a Theory: Exploring the<br />
Nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>. (xii + 237 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)<br />
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN:<br />
1591022851.<br />
126. BROOK, Andrew, and Don ROSS. (Eds.) Daniel<br />
Dennett. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. (xii +<br />
302 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge; New York:<br />
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. ISBN: 0521008646.<br />
Contents: Andrew BROOK and Don ROSS, “Dennett’s Position<br />
in the Intellectual World,” 3-37; Andrew BROOK,<br />
“The Appearance <strong>of</strong> Things,” 41-63; Paul M. CHURCH-<br />
LAND, “Catching Consciousness in a Recurrent Net,” 64-80;<br />
Richard GRIFFIN and Simon BARON-COHEN, “The Intentional<br />
Stance: Developmental and Neurocognitive Perspectives,”<br />
83-116; SEYFARTH and CHENEY [ref. 3639]; ROSS<br />
[ref. 523]; Andy CLARK, “That Special Something: Dennett<br />
on the Making <strong>of</strong> Minds and Selves,” 187-205; Kathleen<br />
AKINS, “A Question <strong>of</strong> Content,” 206-246; Yorick WILKS,<br />
“Dennett and Artificial Intelligence: On the Same Side, and<br />
If So, Of What?” 249-270; ROSS [ref. 3596].<br />
127. BROWN, Harold I. “Incommensurability Reconsidered.”<br />
Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 36 (2005): 149–169.<br />
128. BUCHWALD, Jed Z., and Allan FRANKLIN.<br />
(Eds.) Wrong for the Right Reasons. Archimedes, 11.<br />
(viii + 228 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Dordrecht: Springer Verlag,<br />
2005. ISBN: 1402030479.<br />
On the soundness <strong>of</strong> scientific thinking about ideas that have<br />
ultimately turned out to be erroneous. Jed Z. BUCHWALD and<br />
Allan FRANKLIN, “Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism,”<br />
1-16; JONES [ref. 965]; SWERDLOW [ref. 1028];<br />
NEWMAN and PRINCIPE [ref. 393]; GRENE [ref. 1652];<br />
SHAPIRO [ref. 1602]; SMITH [ref. 1604]; CHEN [ref. 2137];<br />
BUCHWALD [ref. 2134]; FRANKLIN [ref. 2842].<br />
129. BURCHARD, Hermann G. W. “Symbolic Languages<br />
and Natural Structures a Mathematician’s<br />
Account <strong>of</strong> Empiricism.” Found. Sci. 10 (2005):<br />
153–245.<br />
130. CALLENDER, Craig. “Answers in Search <strong>of</strong><br />
a Question: ‘Pro<strong>of</strong>s’ <strong>of</strong> the Tri-Dimensionality <strong>of</strong><br />
Space.” Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys. 36 (2005):<br />
113–136.<br />
131. CARMAN, Christián C. “Discussion: The Electrons<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Dinosaurs and the Center <strong>of</strong> the Earth:<br />
Comments on D.D. Turner’s ‘The Past vs. the Tiny:<br />
Historical <strong>Science</strong> and the Abductive Arguments for<br />
Realism.’ ” Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 36 (2005): 171–173.<br />
Commentary on Derek D. TURNER, “The Past vs. The Tiny”<br />
Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 35 (2004): 1–17. With response<br />
by Turner: Derek D. TURNER, “Misleading Observable<br />
Analogues in Paleontology,” 175–183.<br />
132. COHEN, Martin. Wittgenstein’s Beetle and<br />
Other Classic Thought Experiments. (ix + 135 pp.;<br />
ill.; bibl; index.) Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. ISBN:<br />
1405121912.<br />
133. DEAR, Peter. “L’intelligibilité dans les<br />
sciences.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 9–23.<br />
134. DIDION, David M. “Relevant Bounds on Hierarchical<br />
Levels in the Description <strong>of</strong> Mechanisms.”<br />
Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 25 (2003): 5–25.