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Science as It Could Have Been
Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem
A great merit of this volume is that it provides the sophisticated framework that the contingency debate has needed. The editors and contributors are to be commended for presenting the contingency debate so fully. 'Science as It Could Have Been' is a powerful defense of the contingency of our science but also-perhaps more importantly-of our ways of thinking philosophically about it. If the history of science could have gone differently, then so, too, could the history of the philosophy of science.
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Léna Soler is associate professor of philosophy of science at the University of Lorraine. She is the author of Introduction à l’épistémologie and editor of Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science.
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Andrew Pickering is professor of sociology and philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Constructing Quarks, The Mangle of Practice, and The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future.
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