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Volume 61 - December 1994

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Book Reviews

Ward Edwards (ed.). Utility Theories: Measurements and Applications. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1992), xv + 300 pp., $89.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper).
John D. Mullen
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01 April 2022, pp. 489-490
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Philip Kitcher's The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusion
Jarrett Leplin
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01 April 2022, pp. 666-671
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Philosophy has an honorable tradition as interpreter and advocate of science. That role is in decline. While other science studies disciplines deconstruct “reality”, “truth”, “rationality”, “knowledge”, and “progress” into the political tools of an interested elite, philosophy finds itself too divided over the scope of these concepts to defend them. The debate over realism in the philosophy of science is at an impasse. Agreeing on the relevant evidence and cognizant of the opposing arguments, the disputants cannot see what it would take to break the impasse. The philosophies of individual sciences progress, but no general analysis of scientific knowledge is sufficiently secure to advance against science's detractors.

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David-Hillel Ruben. Explaining Explanation. New York: Routledge (1990), xi + 265 pp., $39.95 (cloth).
Robert T. Pennock
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01 April 2022, pp. 146-147
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Daniel M. Hausman The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (1992), xi + 372 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).
Pierluigi Barrotta
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01 April 2022, pp. 318-319
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Christopher S. Hill Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (1991), ix + 253 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).
Edward Wilson Averill
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01 April 2022, pp. 319-321
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Books Received
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01 April 2022, pp. 491-495
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Roberto Torretti. Creative Understanding: Philosophical Reflections on Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990), xvi + 369 pp., $79.95 (cloth), $32.50 (paper).
Burke Townsend
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01 April 2022, pp. 147-148
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John Earman. Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1992), xiv + 272 pp., $35.00 (cloth).
John Worrall
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01 April 2022, pp. 672-673
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Michael Friedman. Kant and the Exact Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1992), 357 pp., $45.00 (cloth).
Jill Vance Buroker
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01 April 2022, pp. 321-322
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PSA volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
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Robert J. Richards The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992), xv + 205 pp., $19.95.
James G. Lennox
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01 April 2022, pp. 673-675
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Jan Faye. Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. Dordrecht: Kluwer (1991), xxii + 263 pp., $76.00.
James T. Cushing
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01 April 2022, pp. 149-150
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Lucille B. Ritvo Darwin's Influence on Freud: A Tale of Two Sciences. New Haven: Yale University Press (1990), xii + 267 pp., $30.00.
Patricia Kitcher
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01 April 2022, pp. 150-151
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Stephen Cole. Making Science: Between Nature and Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1992), 290 pp., $39.95 (cloth).
Michael Lynch
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01 April 2022, pp. 675-677
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Peter Singer, Helga Kuhse, Stephen Buckle, Karen Dawson, Pascal Kasimba (eds.). Embryo Experimentation. New York: Cambridge University Press (1990), xvi + 263 pp., $44.95.
Rosa Lynn Pinkus
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01 April 2022, pp. 151-153
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John R. Cole The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of René Descartes. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press (1992), xi + 299 pp., 34.95 (cloth).
Gary Hardcastle
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01 April 2022, pp. 677-679
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Lindley Darden. Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics. New York: Oxford University Press (1991), xi + 314 pp., $39.95.
Bradley E. Wilson
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01 April 2022, pp. 153-155
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Hugo G. Nutini and John M. Roberts Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural Tlaxcala. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press (1993), xxii + 476 pp., $40.00 (cloth).
Mark Risjord
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01 April 2022, pp. 679-681
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01 April 2022, p. 682
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Book Reviews

Ward Edwards (ed.). Utility Theories: Measurements and Applications. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1992), xv + 300 pp., $89.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper).

Critical Notice

Philip Kitcher's The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusion

Book Reviews

David-Hillel Ruben. Explaining Explanation. New York: Routledge (1990), xi + 265 pp., $39.95 (cloth).

Daniel M. Hausman The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (1992), xi + 372 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).

Christopher S. Hill Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (1991), ix + 253 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).

Books Received

Books Received

Book Reviews

Roberto Torretti. Creative Understanding: Philosophical Reflections on Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990), xvi + 369 pp., $79.95 (cloth), $32.50 (paper).

John Earman. Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1992), xiv + 272 pp., $35.00 (cloth).

Michael Friedman. Kant and the Exact Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1992), 357 pp., $45.00 (cloth).

Front matter

PSA volume 61 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Book Reviews

Robert J. Richards The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992), xv + 205 pp., $19.95.

Jan Faye. Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. Dordrecht: Kluwer (1991), xxii + 263 pp., $76.00.

Lucille B. Ritvo Darwin's Influence on Freud: A Tale of Two Sciences. New Haven: Yale University Press (1990), xii + 267 pp., $30.00.

Front matter

PSA volume 61 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Book Reviews

Stephen Cole. Making Science: Between Nature and Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1992), 290 pp., $39.95 (cloth).

Peter Singer, Helga Kuhse, Stephen Buckle, Karen Dawson, Pascal Kasimba (eds.). Embryo Experimentation. New York: Cambridge University Press (1990), xvi + 263 pp., $44.95.

John R. Cole The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of René Descartes. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press (1992), xi + 299 pp., 34.95 (cloth).

Lindley Darden. Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics. New York: Oxford University Press (1991), xi + 314 pp., $39.95.

Hugo G. Nutini and John M. Roberts Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural Tlaxcala. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press (1993), xxii + 476 pp., $40.00 (cloth).

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