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

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

 

Call for Papers - Volume 4: Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture

 
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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Vol 3, No 1 (2009): PUBLISHED AHEAD OF ISSUE

Table of Contents

Articles

Crossing the Newton-Maxwell Gap: Convergences and Contingencies PDF
Matti Tedre, Erkki Sutinen 18

Opinions

Going Public: A Cautionary Tale PDF
Michael Lynch 7

Reviews

Phillip Thurtle. The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, & Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920 PDF
Ari Gross 4
Daniel Rothbart. Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work PDF
Isaac Record 3
Bas van Fraassen. Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective PDF
Curtis Forbes 3
Carl F. Craver. Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience PDF
Kevin Morris 4
The Unbounded Bridge of Emergent Evolution, a review of Jacob Klapwijk, Purpose in the Living World: Creation and Emergent Evolution PDF
Mark William Westmoreland 3


ISSN: 1913-0465