Science as it could have been :  discussing the contingency / 
edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering. 
 - Pittsburgh, Pa. :  University of Pittsburgh Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 462 pages) :  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Contingentist/Inevitabilist Debate: Current State of Play, Paradigmatic Forms of Problems and Arguments, Connections to More Familiar Philosophical Themes --  Léna Soler; Part I. Global Survey of the Problem Situation; 1. Why Contingentists Should Not Care about the Inevitabilist Demand to "Put-Up-or-Shut-Up": A Dialogic Reconstruction of the Argumentative Network --  Léna Soler; 2. Some Remarks about the Definitions of Contingentism and Inevitabilism --  Catherine Allamel-Raffin and Jean-Luc Gangloff; Part II. Contingency, Ontology and Realism 3. Science, Contingency, and Ontology --  Andrew Pickering4. Scientific Realism and the Contingency of the History of Science --  Emiliano Trizio; 5. Contingency and Inevitability in Science: Instruments, Interfaces, and the Independent World --  Mieke Boon; Part III. In Search of a Concrete and Empirically Tractable Way of Framing the Contingentist/Inevitabilist Issue; 6. Contingency and "The Art of the Soluble" --  Harry Collins; 7. Contingency, Conditional Realism, and the Evolution of the Sciences --  Ronald N. Giere 8. Necessity and Contingency in the Discovery of Electron Diffraction --  Yves GingrasPart IV. Contingency and Mathematics; 9. Contingency in Mathematics: Two Case Studies --  Jean Paul Van Bendegem; 10. Freedom of Framework --  Jean-Michel Salanskis; 11. On the Contingency of What Counts as "Mathematics" --  Ian Hacking; Part V. Widening the Scope of Contingentist/Inevitabilist Targets: Scientific Practices and the Methodological, Material, Tacit, and Social Dimensions of Science 12. The Science of Mind as It Could Have Been: About the Contingency of the (Quasi-) Disappearance of Introspection in Psychology --  Michel Bitbol and Claire Petitmengin13. Laws, Scientific Practice, and the Contingency/Inevitability Question --  Joseph Rouse; Part VI. Contingency and Scientific Pluralism; 14. On the Plurality of (Theoretical) Worlds --  Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond; 15. Cultivating Contingency: A Case for Scientific Pluralism --  Hasok Chang; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822981152 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Social aspects.<br/>Science--History.<br/>Science--Philosophy.<br/>Science - Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q125  / .S354 2015