TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soler,Lena
AU  - Trizio,Emiliano
AU  - Pickering,Andrew
TI  - Science as it could have been: discussing the contingency 
SN  - 9780822981152
AV  - Q125 .S354 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Science - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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