Book Reviews
- Keith Beven: Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future?
- handling uncertainty in complex models
- Alan Chalmers: Science and its Fabrication
- Raymond Corbey, Wil Roebroeks: Studying Human Origins*
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
- Apostolos Doxiadis, Barry Mazur: Circles Disturbed
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
- Paul Feyerabend: Killing Time*
- a controversial philosopher of science looks back at his life
- Paul Feyerabend: Three Dialogues on Knowledge
- Michael T. Ghiselin: Metaphysics and the Origin of Species*
- species are logical individuals rather than classes; implications
- Marvin Harris: Cultural Materialism
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
- Stephen H. Kellert: In the Wake of Chaos*
- what chaos theory is, and what it is not
- Richard Lewontin: It Ain't Necessarily So
The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot: The Fractal Geometry of Nature*
- a casebook and a manifesto
- Matthew H. Nitecki, Antoni Hoffman: Neutral Models in Biology
- in genetics, ecology, evolution, and paleontology
- Robert T. Pennock: Tower of Babel
The Evidence Against the New Creationism
- Steven Rose: Lifelines
Biology, Freedom, Determinism
- Steven Rose: The Making of Memory
From Molecules to Mind
- C.P. Snow: The Two Cultures
- science versus the humanities
- Elliott Sober: Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology*
- a mix of classic papers and more recent material
- Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem: A Stanislaw Lem Reader
- interviews, essays, and bibliographies
- Robert A. Wilson: Species
New Interdisciplinary Papers
See also:
history of science |
philosophy