James Powell's Faith in Fallacy focusses "not merely the existence of scepticism toward scientific expertise, but the ways in which such scepticism can become institutionalized through state power."
Laida Arbizu Aguirre's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Tulodziecki’s goal is to show "just how much underdetermination survives the concession that theoretical virtues are epistemic, and indeed that this is where the most significant, interesting, and pressing forms of underdetermination were always to be found."
Stanford's review: tinyurl.com/2jxva2a3
"In Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism, Alma Steingart compellingly weaves together mathematical and high modernisms, unifying their contradictions and methodological disagreements into a single account."
Aiden Sagerman's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On the Riddle of Life challenges the "comfortable, and largely canonical, historical lesson" that "the progress of biology has largely consisted of the gradual rendering of all forms of vitalism as untenable."
Esposito's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"There was no such thing as the Enlightenment and this is a book about it."
Adrian Wilson reviews J.C.D. Clark's The Enlightenment, concluding: historians should "drop “the Enlightenment” as an organizing category. We can, and we will, do very much better without it."
tinyurl.com/4h55n2km
Thomas Morel shows that it was "not primarily gentlemen naturalists, philosophers, administrators, bureaucrats or labourers [...] [but] a middle stratum of mobile mining surveyors whose practices taught others how to see the earth."
Hillman's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"There is wide agreement that general relativity is background independent, but at least seven (and counting) mathematical definitions [...] It is into these murky waters that James Read leads us in this dense yet rewarding short monograph."
Thébault's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Metascience is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 35, Issue 1 — our first issue of 2026!
Find the full issue here: link.springer.com/journal/1101...
Juan Mayoral's Kuhn biography shows that his "philosophical views were not born fully formed but emerged from a lifetime of grappling with questions concerning belief, rationality and historical understanding that first arose in his youth."
Zhang and Shen's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
