Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science

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Call for papers for our tenth volume (2019)

2019-04-01

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for volume ten of Spontaneous Generations, under the theme “Eliminative Materialism in Contemporary Philosophy of Science.” Read more about Call for papers for our tenth volume (2019)

Current Issue

Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Future of the Scientific Realism Debate: Contemporary Issues Concerning Scientific Realism

Published: 2018-02-15

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Focused Discussion

Editor's Introduction

Curtis Forbes

1-11
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What is Scientific Realism?

Anjan Chakravartty, Bas C. van Fraassen

12-25
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Feyerabendian Pragmatism

Jeff Foss

26-30
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Realism for realistic people

Hasok Chang

31-34
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Engaging philosophically with the history of science: two challenges for scientific realism

Theodore Arabatzis

35-37
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Gravitational Waves and Scientific Realism

Harry Collins

38-41
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Motives for Research

Arthur Fine

42-45
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Beyond Realism and Antirealism ---At Last?

Joseph Rouse

46-51
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BEWARE OF Mad DOG Realist

Alan Musgrave

52-64
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A Dilemma for the Scientific Realist

Howard Sankey

65-67
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Tolstoy’s argument: realism and the history of science

Stathis Psillos

68-77
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A Fond Farewell to "Approximate Truth"?

P. Kyle Stanford

78-81
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Why the Realism Debate Matters for Science Policy: The Case of the Human Brain Project

Jamie Craig Owen Shaw

82-98
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Scientific Realism Again

James Ladyman

99-107
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Scientific Realism and the History of Chemistry

Robin Hendry

108-117
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Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism?

Peter Vickers

118-121
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How Deployment Realism withstands Doppelt's Criticisms

Mario Alai

122-135
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Being realistic: the challenge of theory change for a metaphysics of scientific realism

Kerry McKenzie

136-142
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The Relevance of Evidence from the History of Science in the Contemporary Realism/Anti-realism Debate

K. Brad Wray

143-145
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Four Challenges to Epistemic Scientific Realism—and the Socratic Alternative.

Timothy D Lyons

146-150
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Referential and Perspectival Realism

Paul Teller

151-164
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Theoretical practices that work: those that mimic Nature’s own

Nancy Cartwright

165-173
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Machine Learning and the Future of Realism

Giles Hooker, Cliff Hooker

174-182
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Reviews

Rebecca Lemov. Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity. 354pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Jennifer Fraser

183-185
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Douglas A. Vakoch and Matthew F. Dowd. The Drake Equation: Estimating the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Life through the Ages

Andrew Oakes

186-188
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Melinda Baldwin. Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal

Andrew Oakes

189-191
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Andre Holenstein, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber, eds. Scholars in Action: The Practice of Knowledge and the Figure of the Savant in the 18th Century, Volumes 1 and 2.

Kristen M. Schranz

192-195
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