Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 2006: Vol 37 Index & Table of Contents

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Studies in History
and Philosophy
of Science
2006
Volume 37
List of Contents and Author Index
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doi: 10.1016/S0039-368 1(06)00090-2
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Contents
NUMBER 1 March
Articles
PETER KROES, 1 The dual nature of technical artefacts
ANTHONIE MEWJERS
PIETER E. VERMAAS, 5 Technical functions: a drawbridge between the inten-
Wyso HOovuKEs tional and structural natures of technical artefacts
SVEN OvE HANSSON 19 Discussion: Defining technical function
MARCEL SCHEELE 23 Function and use of technical artefacts: social condi-
tions of function ascription
BETH PRESTON a Discussion: Social context and artefact function
MAARTEN FRANSSEN 42 The normativity of artefacts
JONATHAN DANCY 58 Discussion: The thing to use
PIETER E. VERMAAS 62 The physical connection: engineering function ascrip-
tions to technical artefacts and their components
STEPHEN MUMFORD 76 Discussion: Function, structure, capacity
JEROEN DE RIDDER 81 Mechanistic artefact explanation
P. McLAUGHLIN 97 Discussion: Mechanical philosophy and artefact ex-
planation
Wyso HovuKEs 102 Knowledge of artefact functions
ADAM MorTOoNn 114 Discussion: Finding the corkscrew
Wyso HOvukKEs, 118 The ontology of artefacts: the hard problem
ANTHONIE MEIWJERS
LYNNE RUDDER BAKER Discussion: On the twofold nature of artefacts
PETER KROES 137 Coherence of structural and functional descriptions of
technical artefacts
RANDALL R. DIPERT 152 Discussion: Coherence and engineering design
se ieee
IV Contents
NuMBER 2 JUNE
Articles
MICHAEL STREVENS 159 The role of the Matthew effect in science
CHRISTINA McLEIsH 171 Realism bit by bit: Part II. Disjunctive partial reference
PaAuL DICKEN 19] Can the constructive empiricist be a nominalist?
Quasi-truth, commitment and consistency
Davip TEIRA 210 On the normative dimension of the St. Petersburg
paradox
PETER Kosso 224 Detecting extrasolar planets
CATHERINE EAGLETON, 237 Copying and conflation in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise
MATTHEW SPENCER on the astrolabe: a stemmatic analysis using phyloge-
netic software
Marco PANZA 269 Francois Viéte: between analysis and cryptanalysis
TED McCormick 290 Alchemy in the political arithmetic of Sir William
Petty (1623-1687)
Discussions
Eric R. SCERRI 308 On the continuity of reference of the elements: a
response to Hendry
RoBIN FINDLAY HENDRY 322 Substantial confusion
Essay reviews
SERAFINA CUOMO 337 A beautiful game
ROBERT RALLEY 344 Alchemical artisans, artisanal alchemy
CRISTINA CHIMISSO 353 The identity and routes of philosophy of science
Marc LANGE 361 Farewell to laws of nature?
GABRIELE CONTESSA 370 Scientific models, partial structures and the new
received view of theories
NUMBER 3 September
Articles
YAEL RAIZMAN-KEDAR 379 Plotinus’s conception of unity and multiplicity as the
root to the medieval distinction between /ux and lumen
PETER MACHAMER, 398 Descartes’s changing mind
J.E. McGuire
Contents Vv
LIAM DEMPSEY 420 Written in the flesh: Isaac Newton on the mind—body
relation
DAviID ATKINSON. 442 Probability without certainty: foundationalism and the
JEANNE PEIJNENBURG Lewis—Reichenbach debate
GABRIELE CONTESSA 454 Constructive empiricism, observability and three kinds
of ontological commitment
ANGELA POTOCHNIK, 469 Revisiting Galison’s ‘Aufbau/Bauhaus’ in light of
AUDREY YAP Neurath’s philosophical projects
DaAvip SHERRY 489 Mathematical reasoning: induction, deduction and
beyond
K. BRAD WRAY 505 Scientific authorship in the age of collaborative
research
Essay review
CHRISTOPHER CULLEN 515 Can we make the history of mathematics historical?
The case of ancient China
NUMBER 4 December
Articles
DaRYN LEHOUX 527 Laws of nature and natural laws
BYRON E. WALL 550 John Venn’s opposition to probability as degree of
belief
GRANT FISHER 562 The autonomy of models and explanation: anomalous
molecular rearrangements in early twentieth-century
physical organic chemistry
GABOR A. ZEMPLEN 585 The development of the Neurath principle: unearthing
the Romantic link
PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE 610 More letters by Paul Feyerabend to Thomas S. Kuhn
on Proto-Structure
ANGELO CEI, 633 Looking for structure in all the wrong places: Ramsey
STEVEN FRENCH sentences, multiple realisability, and structure
Harry COLLINS, 656 Experiments with interactional expertise
Ros Evans,
RODRIGO RIBEIRO,
MaArTIN HALL
Nick TosH 675 Science, truth and history, Part I. Historiography,
relativism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Essay review
JEFF KOCHAN 702 Feenberg and STS: counter-reflections on bridging the
gap
VI Contents
Discussion
ANDREW FEENBERG 721 Symmetry, asymmetry, and the real possibility of
radical change: reply to Kochan
I 2006 Contents and Author Index
Author Index
442
Atkinson, D. Machamer, P. 398
McCormick, T. 290
Baker, L. R. 132 McGuire, J.E. 398
Brad Wray, K. 505 McLaughlin, P. 97
McLeish, C. 171
Cei, A. 633
Meiers, A. 1, 118
Chimisso, C. 353
Morton, A. 114
Collins, H. 656
Mumford, S. 76
Contessa, G. 370, 454
Cullen, C. 515
Panza, M. 269
Cuomo, S. 337
Peijnenburg, J. 442
Potochnik, A. 469
Dancy, J. 58
Preston, B. 37
Dempsey, L. 420
Dicken, P. 19]
Raizman-Kedar, Y. 379
Dipert, R. R. 152
Ralley, R. 344
Eagleton, C. 237 Ribeiro, R. 656
Evans, R. 656 de Ridder, J. 81
Feenberg, A. 721 Scerri, E. R. 308
Fisher, G. 562 Scheele, M. pie
Franssen, M. 42 Sherry, D. 489
French, S. 633 Spencer, M. 237
Strevens, M. 159
Hall, M. 656
Hansson, S. O. 19
Teira, D. 210
Hendry, R. F. 322
Tosh, N. 675
Houkes, W. 5, 102, 118
Hoyningen-Huene, P. 610
Vermaas, P. E. 5, 62
Kochan, J. 702
Kosso, P. 224 Wall, B. E. 550
Kroes, P. , 137
Yap, A. 469
Lange, M. 361
Lehoux, D. 527 Zemplén, G. A. 585
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