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Duncan and Janssen, Constructing Quantum Mechanics // Reviewed by Jan Faye

What Is a Complex System? Ladyman and Wiesner // Reviewed by David Kinney

Alastair Wilson, The Nature of Contingency // Reviewed by Baptiste Le Bihan

Kristin Andrews, How to Study Animal Minds // Reviewed by Irina Mikhalevich

Massimi & McCoy, Understanding Perspectivism // Reviewed by Jordi Cat

Brown and Ladyman, Materialism // Reviewed by Majid D Beni

Love and Wimsatt, Beyond the Meme // Reviewed by Azita Chellappoo

Richard Corry, Power and Influence // Reviewed by Anaïs Rebecca White

Bolton and Gillet, The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease // Reviewed by Sander Werkhoven

Nicholas Shea, Representation in Cognitive Science // Reviewed by Calder and Lee

Herring et al., The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science // Reviewed by Stephen Gaukroger

David Livingstone Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy // Reviewed by Charles H. Pence

Kareem Khalifa, Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge // Reviewed by de Regt & Höhl

Justin Garson, What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Vintiadis & Mekios, Brute Facts // Reviewed by Kristoffer Willert

Sprevak & Colombo, The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind // Reviewed by Adrian Downey

Lisa M. Osbeck, Values in Psychological Science // Reviewed by Robert Hudson

Roughley & Bayertz, The Normative Animal? // Reviewed by Martina Valković

Paul Needham, Macroscopic Metaphysics // Reviewed by Max Kistler

Tim Maudlin, Philosophy of Physics // Reviewed by Valia Allori

Peter Achinstein, Speculation: Within and about Science // Reviewed by Samuel Schindler

Richard Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox // Reviewed by Ronald J. Planer

Alex Broadbent, Philosophy of Medicine // Reviewed by Shane Glackin

Ivan Moscati, Measuring Utility // Reviewed by William Peden

Jonathan Birch, The Philosophy of Social Evolution // Reviewed by Brusse & Sterelny

Eric Winsberg, Philosophy and Climate Science // Reviewed by Greg Lusk

de Melo-Martín & Intemann, The Fight against Doubt // Reviewed by Katherine Furman

K. Brad Wray, Resisting Scientific Realism // Reviewed by Samuel Ruhmkorff

Maria Kronfeldner, What’s Left of Human Nature? // Reviewed by Stephen M. Downes

O’Connor & Weatherall, The Misinformation Age // Reviewed by Erin J. Nash

John Wright, An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism // Reviewed by Elay Shech

Buchanan & Powell, The Evolution of Moral Progress // Reviewed by Brownstein & Kelly

Bueno et al., Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices //Reviewed by Daniel Molter

Ott and Patton, Laws of Nature // Reviewed by Tyler Hildebrand

Donald Gillies, Causality, Probability, and Medicine // Reviewed by Rani Lill Anjum

Carrie Figdor, Pieces of Mind // Reviewed by Joulia Smortchkova

Catherine Elgin, True Enough // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Chauncey Maher, Plant Minds // Reviewed by Anne Sophie Meincke

Silberstein et al., Beyond the Dynamical Universe // Reviewed by Karen Crowther

Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance // Reviewed by Michael Liston

Samuel Schindler, Theoretical Virtues in Science // Reviewed by Rune Nyrup

Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin // Reviewed by Teru Miyake

Elaine Landry, Categories for the Working Philosopher // Reviewed by Chris Kapulkin and Nicholas Teh

Nicholson and Dupré, Everything Flows // Reviewed by Adam Ferner

Edward Slowik, The Deep Metaphysics of Space // Reviewed by Marius Stan

Esfeld and Deckert, A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World // Reviewed by Matteo Morganti

Thomas Ryckman, Einstein // Reviewed by Tilman Sauer

Slater and Yudell, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science // Reviewed by Julia Göhner

Joseph Y. Halpern, Actual Causality // Reviewed by Rosenberg and Glymour

Elliott and Richards, Exploring Inductive Risk // Reviewed by Daniel J. Hicks

David M. Kaplan, Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science // Reviewed by Joe Dewhurst

Caporael et al., Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition // Reviewed by Gregor Halfmann

Matthew Ratcliffe, Real Hallucinations // Reviewed by Matteo Colombo

Boyer-Kassem et al., Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge // Reviewed by Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Anjan Chakravartty, Scientific Ontology // Reviewed by Kerry McKenzie

Stuart Glennan, The New Mechanical Philosophy // Reviewed by Carl F. Craver

Craig Callender, What Makes Time Special? // Reviewed by Steven F. Savitt

Roi Wagner, Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense // Reviewed by David Corfield

Richard Healey, The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy // Reviewed by David Glick

Marc Lange, 'Because without Cause' // Reviewed by Sorin Bangu

Richard Bradley, 'Decision Theory with a Human Face' // Reviewed by Seamus Bradley

Stéphanie Ruphy, 'Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered' // Reviewed by Michela Massimi

Aizawa and Gillett, 'Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground' // Reviewed by Michael Bertrand

Shan Gao, 'Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality' // Reviewed by Valia Allori

Chapman and Wylie, 'Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology' // Reviewed by Sabina Leonelli

Marcel Boumans, 'Science outside the Laboratory' // Reviewed by Catherine Herfeld

Catherine Kendig's Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice // Reviewed by Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Axel Gelfert's How to Do Science with Models // Reviewed by Tarja Knuuttila

Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds // Reviewed by Thomas W. Polger

Francesco Guala's Understanding Institutions // Reviewed by Christopher Clarke

Polger and Shapiro's The Multiple Realization Book // Reviewed by Marion Godman

Couch and Pfeifer's The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher // Reviewed by Shane N. Glackin

Miriam Solomon's Making Medical Knowledge // Reviewed by Michael Wilde

Carl Gillett's Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy // Reviewed by Elanor Taylor

D. M. Walsh's Organisms, Agency, and Evolution // Reviewed by John Dupré

Scerri and Fisher's Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry // Reviewed by Julia Bursten

Sabina Leonelli's Data-centric Biology // Reviewed by Adrian Currie

Andy Clark's Surfing Uncertainty // Reviewed by Andrew Buskell

Michael Tomasello's A Natural History of Human Morality // Reviewed by Jonathan Birch

Gualtiero Piccinini's Physical Computation // Reviewed by Michael Rescorla

Margaret Morrison's Reconstructing Reality // Reviewed by Reutlinger & Hartmann

Lara Buchak's Risk and Rationality // Reviewed by Arif Ahmed