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Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

Carl Gillett
Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, 2016

New Books in Philosophy New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network February 15, 2017 Carrie Figdor

Are complex phenomena “nothing but the sum of their parts”, or are they “more than the sum of their parts”? Physicists, chemists, and biologists as well as philosophers have long argued on both sides of this debate between the idea… Read More

Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Berit Brogaard
On Romantic Love
Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion
Oxford University Press, 2015

New Books in Big Ideas New Books in Psychology New Books in Science New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network February 13, 2017 Eugenio Duarte

Why is falling in love so exciting and painful at the same time? And what explains our longing for people who are bad for us or no longer love us back? In her book On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about … Read More

Randy Olson, “Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)

Randy Olson
Houston, We Have a Narrative
Why Science Needs Story
University of Chicago Press, 2015

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Randy Olson, author of Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story (University of Chicago Press, 2015), has an unusual background. He is a Harvard-trained biologist and former tenured professor who resigned from his academic post to earn… Read More

Projit Bihari Mukharji
Doctoring Traditions
Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science
University of Chicago Press, 2016

New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network January 16, 2017 Carla Nappi

Projit Bihari Mukharji’s new book explores the power of small, non-spectacular, and everyday technologies as motors or catalysts of change in the history of science and medicine. Focusing on practices of Ayurveda in British Bengal between about 1870-1930, Doctoring Traditions: … Read More

Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016)

Joshua Howe
Behind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
University of Washington Press, 2016

New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Geography New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network January 10, 2017 Bob Wilson

The year 2016 was the hottest year on record, and in recent months, drought and searing heat have fanned wildfires in Fort McMurray Alberta and in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Meanwhile, the Arctic has had record high temperatures, leading one climate researcher… Read More