Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the
"successfulness", "reliability" or "trustworthiness" of their
theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many
philosophers of science talk of "robustness", often without
specifying in a precise way the meaning of this term. This lack of
clarity is the cause of frequent misunderstandings, since all these
notions, and that of robustness in particular, are connected to
fundamental issues, which concern nothing less than the very nature
of science and its specificity with respect to other human
practices, the nature of rationality and of scientific progress;
and science's claim to be a truth-conducive activity. This book
offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the problem
of robustness, and in general, that of the reliability of science,
based on several detailed case studies and on philosophical essays
inspired by the so-called practical turn in philosophy of science.
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