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Science as It Could Have Been
Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem
105,00 € |
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Verlag: | University Of Pittsburgh Press |
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Veröffentl.: | 15.01.2016 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780822981152 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 680 |
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Beschreibungen
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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