Spontaneous Generations is a new online academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. The journal aims to establish a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and debate about issues that concern the community of scholars in HPS and related fields.
Apart from selecting peer reviewed articles, the journal encourages a direct dialogue among academics by means of short editorials and focused discussion papers which highlight central questions, new developments, and controversial matters affecting HPS.
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Call for Papers - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science |
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/Spontaneous Generations/ is a new open, online, 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.
Submissions intended for the second issue should be sent no later than June 15, 2008.
Publication for the second issue of Spontaneous Generations is set for November 2008. |
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Vol 1, No 1 (2007)
Table of Contents
Opinions
| We Cannot Allow a Wikipedia Gap! |
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Sage Rogers Ross |
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| On the Ethics of Medical Care under Resource Constraints |
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Joseph Agassi |
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Focused Discussion
| Scientific Expertise: Epistemological Worries, Political Dilemmas (Focused Discussion Editor’s Introduction) |
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Boaz Miller |
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| Expertise, Skepticism and Cynicism: Lessons from Science & Technology Studies |
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Michael Lynch |
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| Science Democratised = Expertise Decommissioned |
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Steve Fuller |
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| Political Epistemology, Experts, and the Aggregation of Knowledge |
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Stephen Turner |
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| Wild or Farmed? Seeking Effective Science in a Controversial Environment |
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Stephen Bocking |
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| Experts, Evidence, and Epistemic Independence |
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Ben Almassi |
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| Managing Public Expectations of Technological Systems: A Case Study of a Problematic Government Project |
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Aaron K Martin, Edgar A Whitley, |
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| Anatomical Expertise and the Hermaphroditic Body |
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Palmira Fontes da Costa |
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| The Expert Professor: C.R. Young and the Toronto Building Code |
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James Hull |
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Articles
| An Engineer’s View of an Ideal Society: The Economic Reforms of C.H. Douglas, 1916-1920 |
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Janet Martin-Nielsen |
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| Mothers, Babies, and the Colonial State: The Introduction of Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Nigeria, 1925-1945 |
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Deanne van Tol |
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Reviews
| What Trust in Science? Review of the Trust in Science Workshop |
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Boaz Miller |
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| Starving the Theological Cuckoo: Review of John Leslie. Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology |
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Huw Price |
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| Ruth Rogaski. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China |
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Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang |
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| Geoffrey C. Bowker. Memory Practices in the Sciences |
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Sara Scharf |
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| Ann Oakley. Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences |
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Stephen Wallace |
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