Science as It Could Have Been - Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem (Hardcover)

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 sciences studies.

General

Imprint:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2015
Editors:	Lena Soler • Emiliano Trizio • Andrew Pickering
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-8229-4445-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	0-8229-4445-6
Barcode:	9780822944454

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