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

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

  
/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! Abstract PDF
Sage Rogers Ross 1
On the Ethics of Medical Care under Resource Constraints Abstract PDF
Joseph Agassi 4

Focused Discussion

Scientific Expertise: Epistemological Worries, Political Dilemmas (Focused Discussion Editor’s Introduction) PDF
Boaz Miller 13
Expertise, Skepticism and Cynicism: Lessons from Science & Technology Studies Abstract PDF
Michael Lynch 17
Science Democratised = Expertise Decommissioned Abstract PDF
Steve Fuller 25
Political Epistemology, Experts, and the Aggregation of Knowledge Abstract PDF
Stephen Turner 36
Wild or Farmed? Seeking Effective Science in a Controversial Environment Abstract PDF
Stephen Bocking 48
Experts, Evidence, and Epistemic Independence Abstract PDF
Ben Almassi 58
Managing Public Expectations of Technological Systems: A Case Study of a Problematic Government Project Abstract PDF
Aaron K Martin, Edgar A Whitley, 67
Anatomical Expertise and the Hermaphroditic Body Abstract PDF
Palmira Fontes da Costa 78
The Expert Professor: C.R. Young and the Toronto Building Code Abstract PDF
James Hull 86

Articles

An Engineer’s View of an Ideal Society: The Economic Reforms of C.H. Douglas, 1916-1920 Abstract PDF
Janet Martin-Nielsen 95
Mothers, Babies, and the Colonial State: The Introduction of Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Nigeria, 1925-1945 Abstract PDF
Deanne van Tol 110

Reviews

What Trust in Science? Review of the Trust in Science Workshop PDF
Boaz Miller 132
Starving the Theological Cuckoo: Review of John Leslie. Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology PDF
Huw Price 136
Ruth Rogaski. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China PDF
Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang 146
Geoffrey C. Bowker. Memory Practices in the Sciences PDF
Sara Scharf 149
Ann Oakley. Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences PDF
Stephen Wallace 151