@Elizabeth suggested that I share here the quick tips I gave her for finding cool history and philosophy of science books, so let’s do it.
I like using awards as starting points. They’re not exhaustive, but often they point to particularly good references in a field that I don’t know about.
For philosophy of science, often with a decent dose of history, there is the Lakatos Award.
For history of science, there is the Sarton Medal, which is given to individuals, not works
Same with book reviews by journals focused on the topic
Obviously, follow the citations: cool books tend to reference cool books. (And terrible ones, but let’s not mention that)
Also known, but just in case: going to https://scholar.google.com/ and searching for the most cited books that cite a book you liked often leads to great reading material.
It sounds like a place that centralizes many different review articles across a lot of disciplines. Only checked a few for the moment, but definitely sounds worth a try!
@Elizabeth suggested that I share here the quick tips I gave her for finding cool history and philosophy of science books, so let’s do it.
I like using awards as starting points. They’re not exhaustive, but often they point to particularly good references in a field that I don’t know about.
For philosophy of science, often with a decent dose of history, there is the Lakatos Award.
For history of science, there is the Sarton Medal, which is given to individuals, not works
Same with book reviews by journals focused on the topic
My favorite are from the British Journal for The Philosophy of Science reviews
Knowing the terminology helps. I find that “History and Philosophy of X” is often a good google query
I recently discovered https://hiphilangsci.net/ on linguistics that way!
Obviously, follow the citations: cool books tend to reference cool books. (And terrible ones, but let’s not mention that)
Also known, but just in case: going to https://scholar.google.com/ and searching for the most cited books that cite a book you liked often leads to great reading material.
Recently found a new link: Annual Reviews
It sounds like a place that centralizes many different review articles across a lot of disciplines. Only checked a few for the moment, but definitely sounds worth a try!
Readow AI is very good at finding similar books to the one/ones you enter.