2013 Winner
Is Water H2O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism
by
Hasok Chang
This book is an outstanding example of how history and philosophy of science, in a complementary mode, can usefully re-open questions that science itself has come to neglect. Hasok Chang explores one of the simplest scientific assumptions, "water is H2O", and shows how such a basic statement has a complex history, which is deeply intertwined with themes and issues that have a central place in contemporary philosophical debates.
Special Commendation
A Science of Operations. Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
byMark Priestley
Nominees — 2013 Edition
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