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Science as It Could Have Been Discussing the Contingency Inevitability Problem 1st Edition by Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Andrew Pickering ISBN 978-0822944454 0822944456

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Author(s): Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Andrew Pickering (eds.)
ISBN(s): 9780822944454, 0822944456
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 31.45 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10:   0822944456

ISBN 13: 978-0822944454

Author: Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Andrew Pickering

Could all or part of our taken-as-established scientific conclusions, theories, experimental data, ontological commitments, and so forth have been significantly different? Science as It Could Have Been focuses on a crucial issue that contemporary science studies have often neglected: the issue of contingency within science. It considers a number of case studies, past and present, from a wide range of scientific disciplines—physics, biology, geology, mathematics, and psychology—to explore whether components of human science are inevitable, or if we could have developed an alternative successful science based on essentially different notions, conceptions, and results. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors in philosophy, sociology, and history of science, this edited volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the contingency/inevitability problem and a lively and up-to-date portrait of current debates in science studies.
 

Table of contents: 

  1. Introduction

Part I: Global Survey of the Problem Situation
2. Why Contingentists Should Not Care about the Inevitabilist Demand to “Put-Up-or-Shut-Up”: A Dialogic Reconstruction of the Argumentative Network
3. Some Remarks about the Definitions of Contingentism and Inevitabilism

Part II: Contingency, Ontology, and Realism
4. Science, Contingency, and Ontology
5. Scientific Realism and the Contingency of the History of Science
6. Contingency and Inevitability in Science: Instruments, Interfaces, and the Independent World

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