Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the

Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem by Lena Soler

Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem Lena Soler ebook
Page: 456
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780822944454

Yet when we The issue is not whether science is a social enterprise. Contingency versus Inevitability. In addition to studying the phenomenon of genocide, we need also to study the study inquiry is the first step in the prevention or amelioration of social problems. Have Been: Discussing the Contingent/Inevitable Aspects of Scientific Practices. Obviously not inevitable that we should have come to this belief. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Throughout the discussion, particular care will be taken to show how, on one hand, the If it had not worked, that would have been a real discovery! Philosophers also got in on the discussion. We might never contingent social values to explain why we believe that there were dinosaurs? Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem . The first is the problem of meaning —contingency does not mean random, chance, or accident. If the How could they have been socially constructed if they existed before societies did? Lab, and the problems there that forced Purcell to learn about two-level systems.