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BJPS Review of Books

Philosophy of Science Books

MARK POVICH

RULES TO
INFINITY

Reviewed by
Jason DeWitt

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BJPS Review of Books…

Mark Povich, Rules to Infinity
Reviewed by Jason DeWitt

Neal Anderson & Gualtiero Piccinini, The Physical Signature of Computation
Reviewed by Luke Kersten

Susana Monsó, Playing Possum
Reviewed by Tiffani Thomason & Colin Allen

Robert Northcott, Science for a Fragile World
Reviewed by Christopher Clarke

Ellen Clarke, The Units of Life
Reviewed by John Dupré

Frances Egan, Deflating Mental Representation
Reviewed by Nico Orlandi

Jan Baedke, The Organism
Reviewed by Matthew Sims

Emily Adlam, Saving Science from Quantum Mechanics
Reviewed by Steven French

Ryan Nefdt, Language, Science, and Structure
Reviewed by Christopher Viger

Bacciagaluppi and Crull, The Einstein Paradox // Reviewed by Thomas Ryckman

Armin W Schulz, It’s Only Human // Reviewed by Olivier Morin

Michel Veuille, Sex, Gender, Ethics, and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind // Reviewed by Azita Chellappoo

Chris Haufe, Fruitfulness // Reviewed by Samuel Schindler and Patrick Duerr

Kathryn Nave, A Drive to Survive // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Kian Salimkhani, The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime // Reviewed by Noel Swanson

Bausman, Baxter and Lean, From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics // Reviewed by Jay Odenbaugh

Nicholas Shea, Concepts at the Interface // Reviewed by Peter Carruthers

Daniel Kennefick, No Shadow of a Doubt // Reviewed by Mauricio Suárez

Roberta L Millstein, The Land Is Our Community // Reviewed by Julia Pelletier, Aja Watkins & Andrew Zeppa

Philippe Huneman, Death // Reviewed by Justin Garson

Mauricio Suárez, Inference and Representation // Reviewed by James Nguyen

Katherine Brading and Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason // Reviewed by Mark Wilson

Enquist, Ghirlanda & Lind, The Human Evolutionary Transition // Reviewed by Ronald Planer & Claudio Tennie

Andersen and Mitchell, The Pragmatist Challenge // Reviewed by Matthew J Brown

Yafeng Shan, Alternative Approaches to Causation // Reviewed by Vera Hoffmann-Kolss

Neil Levy, Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review // Reviewed by Joshua Habgood-Coote

James Read, Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity // Reviewed by Sebastian De Haro

Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror // Reviewed by Robert Hudson

Mazviita Chirimuuta, The Brain Abstracted // Reviewed by Daniel Burnston

Daniel Greco, Idealization in Epistemology // Reviewed by Joe Roussos

Matteo Mameli, Why Human Nature Matters // Marco J Nathan, The Quest for Human Nature // Reviewed by Tim Lewens

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split and Splice // Reviewed by Uljana Feest

Marshall Abrams, Evolution and the Machinery of Chance // Reviewed by Charles H Pence

Gordon Belot, Accelerating Expansion // Reviewed by Chris Smeenk

Daniel J Singer, Right Belief and True Belief // Reviewed by Richard Pettigrew

Luiz Pessoa, The Entangled Brain // Reviewed by Felipe De Brigard

Hicks, Jaag, and Loew, Humean Laws for Human Agents // Reviewed by Travis McKenna

Steven French, A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics // Reviewed by Kelvin J McQueen

Hilary Kornblith, Scientific Epistemology // Reviewed by Michael Bishop

Adriaens & de Block, Of Maybugs and Men // Reviewed by Marion Godman

Ioannidis & Psillos, Mechanisms in Science // Reviewed by Katherine Valde

Gerhard Schurz, Optimality Justifications // Reviewed by Richard Pettigrew

Nina Emery, Naturalism beyond the Limits of Science // Reviewed by Jo Wolff

Schupbach and Glass, Conjunctive Explanations // Reviewed by Naftali Weinberger

Penelope Maddy, A Plea for Natural Philosophy // Reviewed by Michael Liston

Chris Haufe, How Knowledge Grows // Reviewed by Juan V Mayoral

Cecelia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets // Reviewed by Philip Gerrans

Michael Devitt, Biological Essentialism // Reviewed by John S. Wilkins

Kolja Ehrenstein, Causal Pluralism in the Life Sciences // Reviewed by Janella Baxter

Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Cognitive Ontology // Reviewed by Carrie Figdor

Shan Gao, Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics // Reviewed by Steven French

Hugh Desmond & Grant Ramsey, Human Success // Reviewed by Andrew Buskell

Alexander Bird, Knowing Science // Reviewed by Don Ross

Naomi Oreskes, Science on a Mission // Reviewed by Aja Watkins & Miguel Ohnesorge

Anneli Jefferson, Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? // Reviewed by Dominic Murphy

David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking // Reviewed by Perpinyà & Pence

Ramsey and Block, The Dynamics of Science // Reviewed by Patricia Rich

Oron Shagrir, The Nature of Physical Computation // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Igor Douven, The Art of Abduction // Reviewed by Kevin Davey

Robert Batterman, A Middle Way // Reviewed by Mariam Thalos

Bickle et al, The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment // Reviewed by David L Barack

Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell, A Better Ape // Reviewed by Calvin Warner

Justin Garson, Madness // Reviewed by Lisa Bortolotti

Brooks et al., Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences // Reviewed by Mariam Thalos

Alexander Bochman, A Logical Theory of Causality // Reviewed by Jiji Zhang

Giora Hon and Bernard R Goldstein, Reflections on the Practice of Physics // Reviewed by Francesco Nappo

Hakwan Lau, In Consciousness We Trust // Reviewed by Ian Phillips and Simon Brown

Jill North, Physics, Structure, and Reality // Reviewed by Caspar Jacobs

Collin Rice, Leveraging Distortions // Reviewed by William D’Alessandro

John D Norton, The Material Theory of Induction // Reviewed by William Peden

Andreas Hüttemann, A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice // Reviewed by Steven French

Ankeny and Leonelli, Model Organisms // Reviewed by Jessica Bolker

K Brad Wray, Kuhn’s Intellectual Path // Reviewed by Howard Sankey

Georges Rey, Representation of Language// Reviewed by Gabe Dupre

Frigg and Nguyen, Modelling Nature// Reviewed by José Díez

Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing// Reviewed by John Symons and Syed Abumusab

Kendler and Zachar, Towards a Philosophical Approach to Psychiatry// Reviewed by Murphy and Pereira

Gualtiero Piccinini, Neurocognitive Mechanisms // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Jablonka and Lamb, Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis // Reviewed by Pierrick Bourrat

Duncan and Janssen, Constructing Quantum Mechanics // Reviewed by Jan Faye

What Is a Complex System? Ladyman and Wiesner // Reviewed by David Kinney

Alastair Wilson, The Nature of Contingency // Reviewed by Baptiste Le Bihan

Kristin Andrews, How to Study Animal Minds // Reviewed by Irina Mikhalevich

Massimi & McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism // Reviewed by Jordi Cat

Brown and Ladyman, Materialism // Reviewed by Majid D Beni

Love and Wimsatt, Beyond the Meme // Reviewed by Azita Chellappoo

Richard Corry, Power and Influence // Reviewed by Anaïs Rebecca White

Bolton and Gillet, The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease // Reviewed by Sander Werkhoven

Nicholas Shea, Representation in Cognitive Science // Reviewed by Calder and Lee

Herring et al., The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science // Reviewed by Stephen Gaukroger

David Livingstone Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy // Reviewed by Charles H. Pence

Kareem Khalifa, Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge // Reviewed by de Regt & Höhl

Justin Garson, What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Vintiadis & Mekios, Brute Facts // Reviewed by Kristoffer Willert

Sprevak & Colombo, The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind // Reviewed by Adrian Downey

Lisa M. Osbeck, Values in Psychological Science // Reviewed by Robert Hudson

Roughley & Bayertz, The Normative Animal? // Reviewed by Martina Valković

Paul Needham, Macroscopic Metaphysics // Reviewed by Max Kistler

Tim Maudlin, Philosophy of Physics // Reviewed by Valia Allori

Peter Achinstein, Speculation: Within and about Science // Reviewed by Samuel Schindler

Richard Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox // Reviewed by Ronald J. Planer

Alex Broadbent, Philosophy of Medicine // Reviewed by Shane Glackin

Ivan Moscati, Measuring Utility // Reviewed by William Peden

Jonathan Birch, The Philosophy of Social Evolution // Reviewed by Brusse & Sterelny

Eric Winsberg, Philosophy and Climate Science // Reviewed by Greg Lusk

de Melo-Martín & Intemann, The Fight against Doubt // Reviewed by Katherine Furman

K. Brad Wray, Resisting Scientific Realism // Reviewed by Samuel Ruhmkorff

Maria Kronfeldner, What’s Left of Human Nature? // Reviewed by Stephen M. Downes

O’Connor & Weatherall, The Misinformation Age // Reviewed by Erin J. Nash

John Wright, An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism // Reviewed by Elay Shech

Buchanan & Powell, The Evolution of Moral Progress // Reviewed by Brownstein & Kelly

Bueno et al., Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices //Reviewed by Daniel Molter

Ott and Patton, Laws of Nature // Reviewed by Tyler Hildebrand

Donald Gillies, Causality, Probability, and Medicine // Reviewed by Rani Lill Anjum

Carrie Figdor, Pieces of Mind // Reviewed by Joulia Smortchkova

Catherine Elgin, True Enough // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Chauncey Maher, Plant Minds // Reviewed by Anne Sophie Meincke

Silberstein et al., Beyond the Dynamical Universe // Reviewed by Karen Crowther

Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance // Reviewed by Michael Liston

Samuel Schindler, Theoretical Virtues in Science // Reviewed by Rune Nyrup

Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin // Reviewed by Teru Miyake

Elaine Landry, Categories for the Working Philosopher // Reviewed by Chris Kapulkin and Nicholas Teh

Nicholson and Dupré, Everything Flows // Reviewed by Adam Ferner

Edward Slowik, The Deep Metaphysics of Space // Reviewed by Marius Stan

Esfeld and Deckert, A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World // Reviewed by Matteo Morganti

Thomas Ryckman, Einstein // Reviewed by Tilman Sauer

Slater and Yudell, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science // Reviewed by Julia Göhner

Joseph Y. Halpern, Actual Causality // Reviewed by Rosenberg and Glymour

Elliott and Richards, Exploring Inductive Risk // Reviewed by Daniel J. Hicks

David M. Kaplan, Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science // Reviewed by Joe Dewhurst

Caporael et al., Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition // Reviewed by Gregor Halfmann

Matthew Ratcliffe, Real Hallucinations // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Boyer-Kassem et al., Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge // Reviewed by Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Anjan Chakravartty, Scientific Ontology // Reviewed by Kerry McKenzie

Stuart Glennan, The New Mechanical Philosophy // Reviewed by Carl F. Craver

Craig Callender, What Makes Time Special? // Reviewed by Steven F. Savitt

Roi Wagner, Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense // Reviewed by David Corfield

Richard Healey, The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy // Reviewed by David Glick

Marc Lange, 'Because without Cause' // Reviewed by Sorin Bangu

Richard Bradley, 'Decision Theory with a Human Face' // Reviewed by Seamus Bradley

Stéphanie Ruphy, 'Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered' // Reviewed by Michela Massimi

Aizawa and Gillett, 'Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground' // Reviewed by Michael Bertrand

Shan Gao, 'Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality' // Reviewed by Valia Allori

Chapman and Wylie, 'Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology' // Reviewed by Sabina Leonelli

Marcel Boumans, 'Science outside the Laboratory' // Reviewed by Catherine Herfeld

Catherine Kendig's Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice // Reviewed by Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Axel Gelfert's How to Do Science with Models // Reviewed by Tarja Knuuttila

Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds // Reviewed by Thomas W. Polger

Francesco Guala's Understanding Institutions // Reviewed by Christopher Clarke

Polger and Shapiro's The Multiple Realization Book // Reviewed by Marion Godman

Couch and Pfeifer's The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher // Reviewed by Shane N. Glackin

Miriam Solomon's Making Medical Knowledge // Reviewed by Michael Wilde

Carl Gillett's Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy // Reviewed by Elanor Taylor

D. M. Walsh's Organisms, Agency, and Evolution // Reviewed by John Dupré

Scerri and Fisher's Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry // Reviewed by Julia Bursten

Sabina Leonelli's Data-centric Biology // Reviewed by Adrian Currie

Andy Clark's Surfing Uncertainty // Reviewed by Andrew Buskell

Michael Tomasello's A Natural History of Human Morality // Reviewed by Jonathan Birch

Gualtiero Piccinini's Physical Computation // Reviewed by Michael Rescorla

Margaret Morrison's Reconstructing Reality // Reviewed by Reutlinger & Hartmann

Lara Buchak's Risk and Rationality // Reviewed by Arif Ahmed