Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

B. Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Science
10. CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF
SCIENCE
118. ABBAS, Niran. (Ed.) Mapping Michel Serres.
Studies in Literature and Science. (x + 259 pp.; bibl.;
index.) Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0472114387.
Includes works by René GIRARD, William JOHNSEN, Hanjo
BERRESSEM, and Stephen CLUCAS. On Serres, his philosophy
of science, his analysis of Lucretius, and ancient and
20th-century physics.
119. ABIDIN, Zainal. “Science and Metaphysics:
A Methodological Investigation.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A
66/02 (2005): 615.
Dissertation at Indiana University, 2005. Advisers: Friedman,
Michael L., and Noretta Koertge. UMI pub. no. 3163020.
205 pp.
120. ABÍMBÓLÁ, Kólá. “A Critique of Methodological
Naturalism.” Sci. Context 19 (2006): 191–213.
Critique of arguments put forward by Larry Laudan.
121. ACHINSTEIN, Peter. (Ed.) Science Rules: A
Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods. (x +
427 pp.; bibl.; index.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN: 0801879434.
Reviews: [ref. 150]
122. ANDERSEN, Hanne, Peter BARKER, and Xiang
CHEN. The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(xvii + 199 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge,
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006. ISBN:
0521855756.
Evaluation and extension of Kuhn’s ideas from the perspective
of cognitive science. Discusses nature of normal and
revolutionary science, the function of anomalies, and the
nature of incommensurability.
123. ARMATTE, Michel, and Amy DAHAN
DALMÉDICO. “Modèles et modélisations, 1950–
2000 : Nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux enjeux.” First
article in a special Issue: Modèles et modélisations,
1950–2000. Rev. Hist. Sci. 57 (2004): 243–303.
See also: BISSELL [ref. 3763]; MORGAN [ref. 3649];
KIEKEN [ref. 3572]; MACKENZIE [ref. 3648]; Amy DA-
HAN DALMÉDICO and Michel ARMATTE, “Bibliographie
générale,” 433–447.
124. BELK, Alan Frederick. “The Semantic View
of Scientific Theories: An Alternative to Realism/Instrumentalism.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/07
(2006): 2597.
Dissertation at the University of Guelph, 2005. UMI pub. no.
NR04705. 193 pp.
125. BEN-ARI, Moti. Just a Theory: Exploring the
Nature of Science. (xii + 237 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN:
1591022851.
126. BROOK, Andrew, and Don ROSS. (Eds.) Daniel
Dennett. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. (xii +
302 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. ISBN: 0521008646.
Contents: Andrew BROOK and Don ROSS, “Dennett’s Position
in the Intellectual World,” 3-37; Andrew BROOK,
“The Appearance of Things,” 41-63; Paul M. CHURCH-
LAND, “Catching Consciousness in a Recurrent Net,” 64-80;
Richard GRIFFIN and Simon BARON-COHEN, “The Intentional
Stance: Developmental and Neurocognitive Perspectives,”
83-116; SEYFARTH and CHENEY [ref. 3639]; ROSS
[ref. 523]; Andy CLARK, “That Special Something: Dennett
on the Making of Minds and Selves,” 187-205; Kathleen
AKINS, “A Question of Content,” 206-246; Yorick WILKS,
“Dennett and Artificial Intelligence: On the Same Side, and
If So, Of What?” 249-270; ROSS [ref. 3596].
127. BROWN, Harold I. “Incommensurability Reconsidered.”
Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 36 (2005): 149–169.
128. BUCHWALD, Jed Z., and Allan FRANKLIN.
(Eds.) Wrong for the Right Reasons. Archimedes, 11.
(viii + 228 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Dordrecht: Springer Verlag,
2005. ISBN: 1402030479.
On the soundness of scientific thinking about ideas that have
ultimately turned out to be erroneous. Jed Z. BUCHWALD and
Allan FRANKLIN, “Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism,”
1-16; JONES [ref. 965]; SWERDLOW [ref. 1028];
NEWMAN and PRINCIPE [ref. 393]; GRENE [ref. 1652];
SHAPIRO [ref. 1602]; SMITH [ref. 1604]; CHEN [ref. 2137];
BUCHWALD [ref. 2134]; FRANKLIN [ref. 2842].
129. BURCHARD, Hermann G. W. “Symbolic Languages
and Natural Structures a Mathematician’s
Account of Empiricism.” Found. Sci. 10 (2005):
153–245.
130. CALLENDER, Craig. “Answers in Search of
a Question: ‘Proofs’ of the Tri-Dimensionality of
Space.” Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys. 36 (2005):
113–136.
131. CARMAN, Christián C. “Discussion: The Electrons
of the Dinosaurs and the Center of the Earth:
Comments on D.D. Turner’s ‘The Past vs. the Tiny:
Historical Science and the Abductive Arguments for
Realism.’ ” Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 36 (2005): 171–173.
Commentary on Derek D. TURNER, “The Past vs. The Tiny”
Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 35 (2004): 1–17. With response
by Turner: Derek D. TURNER, “Misleading Observable
Analogues in Paleontology,” 175–183.
132. COHEN, Martin. Wittgenstein’s Beetle and
Other Classic Thought Experiments. (ix + 135 pp.;
ill.; bibl; index.) Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. ISBN:
1405121912.
133. DEAR, Peter. “L’intelligibilité dans les
sciences.” Arch. Int. Hist. Sci. 55 (2005): 9–23.
134. DIDION, David M. “Relevant Bounds on Hierarchical
Levels in the Description of Mechanisms.”
Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 25 (2003): 5–25.