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...William E. Mann Ruse Michael , Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . viii +264 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Frederick C. Beiser, Diotima’s...

...Alexander Bird Susan Haack, Defending Science — Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism . Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. 411 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Railton, Facts, Values, and Norms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...Mark Steiner MATHEMATICS AS A SCIENCE OF PATTERNS. By Michael Resnik. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 285. Cornell University 2000 Frege, Gottlob. 1959 . The Foundations of Arithmetic. Trans. J. L. Austin. Oxford: Blackwell. Kitcher, Philip...

...Matthias Steup HARMLESS NATURALISM: THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE AND THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY. By Robert Almeder. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1998. Pp. xii, 235. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REvlEWS and it is worth noting that the method is not self-certifying...

...Kent Bach CONCEPTS: WHERE COGNITIVE SCIENCE WENT WRONG. By Jerry A. Fodor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 174. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS dez’s project, where having a concept is linked to having linguistic abilities. So...

...Sherrilyn Roush THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF THE UNIVERSE: A NEW CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE. By Nicholas Maxwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 316. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS ThPhilosophical Rmiew, Vol. 110...

...H. K. Andersen [email protected] Rice Collin , Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2021 . xii + 353 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Questions about idealizations in science are often framed...

...Gerald Doppelt RELATIVISM AND REALITY: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION, SCIENTIFIC REALISM: HOW SCIENCE TRACKS TRUTH. By Robert Kirk. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp ix, 180.; By Stathis Psillos. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp xiii, 300. Cornell University 2002 BOOK...

...Stephan Käufer HEIDEGGER'S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. By Trish Glazebrook. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 278. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS Philosophers concerned with self-knowledge and the ownership of thoughts, beliefs...

...Conor Mayo-Wilson Epistemic closure ( ec ) is the thesis that knowledge is closed under known entailment. Although several theories of knowledge violate ec , failures of ec seem rare in science. I argue that, surprisingly, there are genuine violations of ec according to theories of knowledge widely...

..., namely, the relation between science and metaphysics, is the underwhelming introduction, there is much food for thought in the remaining nine essays by the stellar group of contributors that the editors managed to assemble. The fourth and last part contains but one paper—Jessica Wilson's essay...

...Mark Povich; Carl F. Craver Lange Marc , Because without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics . New York: Oxford University Press , 2016 . 489 pp. . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 The consensus in the philosophy of science, at least since the 1980s, has...

...Michael Rescorla Shea Nicholas , Representation in Cognitive Science . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xi + 292 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Nicholas Shea's writings are required reading for philosophers of mind, especially those interested in the mind...

...Ian Blecher Lu-Adler Huaping , Kant and the Science of Logic . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xxiv + 244 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 “My ultimate and most important goal,” says Huaping Lu-Adler, is to explain “Kant's account of logic as a ‘science...

...John Dupré Daniel P. Steel, Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science . New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256 pp. Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford...

...Neelam Sethi Lloyd Elisabeth A. , Science, Politics, and Evolution . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . vii + 301 pp. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Alfred R. Mele, Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious...

...Lorraine Besser-Jones Sobel Jordan Howard , Walls and Vaults: A Natural Science of Morals (Virtue Ethics according to David Hume) . Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons , 2009 . xiii + 414 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Huw...

...Alexander Bird Lange Marc , Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xviii + 257 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 In recent years a resurgence of interest in the laws of nature has led to a number...

... Psychologist. 49 : 997 -1003. Hacking, Ian. 1995 . Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personalities and the Sciences of Memory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. BOOK REWWS theories successfully in referring, then why does the supposed theory-lad- enness of language...

...Ásta Epstein Brian , The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences . New York: Oxford University Press , 2015 . 298 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 Is the social reducible to something about individual attitudes and behavior? Is it entirely explainable...