Spontaneous Generations is an online, academic, peer-reviewed academic journal established to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and debate about issues that concern the community of scholars in the history and philosophy of science and related fields. A unique feature of the journal is a Focused Discussion section consisting of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme that alternates every issue. The journal also publishes original peer-reviewed research papers, opinions pieces and book-reviews.
Announcements
Third Issue is up |
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| The Editorial Board is pleased to announce the publication of the journal's third issue, which features a Focused Discussion section devoted to the theme "Epistemic Boundaries." We encourage your comments and questions on the issues raised by the authors of the articles and opinion pieces published in this issue of the journal. Please e-mail your comments to the editor at hapsat.society@utoronto.ca or use the journal’s online comment system. |
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| Posted: 2010-01-12 | More... |
Call for Papers - Volume 4: Scientific Instruments |
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| We are now accepting submissions for our fourth volume (2010) in all areas of HPS. We especially encourage short papers exploring the history and philosophy of scientific instruments for inclusion in the Focused Discussion section "Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture." Submissions should be sent no later than 26 February 2010. For instructions for paper submission press here. |
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| Posted: 2009-11-03 | More... |
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Vol 3, No 1 (2009): Epistemic Boundaries
Table of Contents
Focused Discussion
| Editor's Introduction: Epistemic Boundaries | |
| Sebastian Gil-Riano, Vivien Hamilton | 1 - 8 |
| Phenomenology in the American Vein: Justus Buchler’s Ordinal Naturalism and its Importance for the Justification of Epistemic Objects | |
| Leon Niemoczynski | 9 - 27 |
| Creation Myths and Epistemic Boundaries | |
| Daryn Lehoux | 28 - 34 |
| Evolution, Intelligent Design and Public Education: A Comment on Thomas Nagel | |
| Scott Aikin, Michael Harbour, Robert Talisse | 35 - 40 |
| ‘Exceeding the Age in Every Thing’: Placing Sloane’s Objects | |
| James Delbourgo | 41 - 54 |
| Epistemic Fencelines: Air Monitoring Instruments and Expert-Resident Boundaries | |
| Gwen Ottinger | 55 - 67 |
| Domesticating the Magnet: Secularity, Secrecy and ‘Permanency’ as Epistemic Boundaries in Marie Curie’s Early Work. | |
| Graeme Gooday | 68 - 81 |
| “I hold every properly qualified navigator to be a philosopher”: The Making of the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Global Laboratory | |
| Aaron Sidney Wright | 82 - 94 |
| Cultural Exchange in a Heterogeneous Research Field: Approaching Scientific Culture with Anthropological Thought | |
| Daniela Baus | 95 - 104 |
| Exploring Epistemic Boundaries Between Scientific and Popular Cultures | |
| Marina Levina | 105 - 112 |
| Dealing With Disagreement: Distinguishing Two Types of Epistemic Peers | |
| Benjamin Elliott Wald | 113 - 122 |
Articles
| Going Outside the Model: Robustness Analysis and Experimental Science | |
| Michael Trevor Bycroft | 123 - 141 |
| Progress in Science and Science at the Non-Western Peripheries | |
| Deepanwita Dasgupta | 142 - 157 |
| Was Kekule's Mind Brainbound? The Historiography of Chemistry and the Philosophy of Extended Cognition." | |
| David Theodore | 158 - 177 |
| On the Subject of Goethe: Hermann von Helmholtz on Goethe and Scientific Objectivity | |
| Dani Hallet | 178 - 194 |
| Crossing the Newton-Maxwell Gap: Convergences and Contingencies | |
| Matti Tedre, Erkki Sutinen | 195 - 212 |
Opinions
| Going Public: A Cautionary Tale | |
| Michael Lynch | 213 - 219 |
| Response to Lynch | |
| Steve Fuller | 220 - 222 |
| Reflections on Trees of Knowledge | |
| Marion Blute | 223 - 225 |
| Response to Professor Blute | |
| Ian Hacking | 226 - 228 |
Reviews
| Phillip Thurtle. The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, & Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920 | |
| Ari Gross | 229 - 232 |
| Daniel Rothbart. Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work | |
| Isaac Record | 233 - 235 |
| Bas van Fraassen. Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective | |
| Curtis Forbes | 236 - 238 |
| Carl F. Craver. Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience | |
| Kevin Morris | 239 - 242 |
| The Unbounded Bridge of Emergent Evolution, a review of Jacob Klapwijk, Purpose in the Living World: Creation and Emergent Evolution | |
| Mark William Westmoreland | 243 - 245 |
| Maria Rentetzi. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Research Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna | |
| Vivien Hamilton | 246 - 248 |
ISSN: 1913-0465