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Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem

Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem

Soler, Lena
Trizio, Emiliano
Pickering, Andrew

Hardcover

Sports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0822944456
ISBN13: 9780822944454
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Nov 30 2015
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.34 Depth: 10.24
Language: English
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.

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