Book review of Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker's book "The Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.".

Book review of "The Kantian legacy in the Nineteenth -Century Science,'' M. Friedman, and A. Nordmann.

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.

Book Review of Brian Fay's Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science.

NoAvailable Philosophical Papers Vol.34(1) 2005: 137-142.

This book review considers Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson's argument that there is less of an intrinsic tension between liberalism and republicanism than has been claimed by various students of the history of modern liberal thought. It fully endorses the authors' directing of our attention to the mode of thinking which is to be seen in their select group of subjects (Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant). But it balks at (...) their claim that their 'critical junctures' or 'heterogeneous and relational' interpretation of the rise of liberalism is superior to the 'linear' or 'trickle down' approach which sees this rise as a tale of the progressively strengthening influence of the 'giants' of political thought such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Montesquieu et. al. over lesser thinkers who were more absorbed in 'practical affairs.' The suggestion is made that what the authors take to be 'negotiable' differences of emphasis between the classically liberal and classically republican traditions may in fact be 'existential' oppositions which no single political order could overcome. (shrink)

(2006). BOOK REVIEW: Perspectives on Pedagogy: Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens, by Wendy Luttrell. Educational Studies: Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 313-317.

The Science of Proof offers a detailed history of how experts of forensic science first interfaced with the court system in 18th and 19th century France.

Book Review of: Dow We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics? by Franck Laloe.

Book Review of: "Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy" by Nick Huggett.