Science as it could have been : discussing the contingency / edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering.

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Q125 .S354 2015

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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

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

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

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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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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