The second issue of Spontaneous Generatons is now available. The open-access online journal is published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.
The journal is divided into four sections: (1) an editorial; (2) peer-reviewed discussions; (3) peer-reviewed articles; and (4) book reviews. According to the editors:
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.
The table of contents, with direct links to each paper, is below:
Opinions
- Blute, Marion: Is it Time for an Updated ‘Eco-Evo-Devo’ Definition of Evolution by Natural Selection?
- Walsh, Denis: A Commentary on Blute’s ‘Updated Definition’
- Fuller, Steve: Science Studies Goes Public: A Report on an Ongoing Performance
Focused Discussion
- Record, Isaac: Frankenstein in Lilliput: Science at the Nanoscale (Editor’s Introduction)
Peer-Reviewed Contributions
- Virdi, Jaipreet: Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Examining Potential Limits in Nanomedicine
- Jackson, J. Kasi: Gender, Mad Scientists and Nanotechnology
Invited Contributions
- Schummer, Joachim: The Popularization of Emerging Technologies through Ethics: From Nanotechnology to Synthetic Biology
- Milburn, Colin: Atoms and Avatars: Virtual Worlds as Massively-Multiplayer Laboratories
- Pitt, Joseph C.: Small Talk: Nanotechnology and Metaphor
- Kearnes, Matthew B.: Informationalising Matter: Systems Understandings of the Nanoscale
- Myers, Natasha: Conjuring Machinic Life
- Viseu, Ana: Disciplining Nano
- Bueno, Otávio: Visual Evidence at the Nanoscale
- Winsberg, Eric: Models and Theories at the Nano-scale
Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
- Scharf, Sara: Multiple Independent Inventions of a Non-Functional Technology: Combinatorial Descriptive Names in Botany, 1640-1830
- James, Christine A.: Evolution and Conservative Christianity: How Philosophy of Science Pedagogy Can Begin the Conversation
- Asen, Daniel: Approaching Law and Exhausting its (Social) Principles: Jurisprudence as Social Science in Early 20th Century China
Reviews
- Cournoyea, Michael: In Search of Transdisciplinarity: A Review of Two Workshops Supported by Situating Science
- Scharf, Sara: Hine, Christine. 2008. Systematics as Cyberscience
- Virdi, Jaipreet: Fritz Allhoff and Patrick Lin, Eds. Nanotechnology and Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues
- Record, Isaac & Munro, Andrew: Paul E. Ceruzzi. Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005