Contingency Is Here to Stay—in Science as in Any Other Human Enterprise Léna Soler 2025 Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Blacksburg, VA © Léna Soler Université de Lorraine Archives Henri-Poincaré – Philosophie Et Recherches Sur Les Sciences Et Les... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Part I 1. Introduction ❧ 1.1 A Stimulating Philosophical Dialogue about the Inevitability or the Contingency of Scientific Achievements ❧ 1.2 The Inevitabilist / Contingentist Debate Recently Introduced in Philosophy of Science ❧ 1.3 Background and Basic Principles of My... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Part II 2. A Systematic Reconstruction of Perović’s Inevitabilist View ❧ 2.1 The Indispensable Roles of Counterfactual History in the Philosophy of Science • 2.1.1 Main Functions and Potential Value of Counterfactual History • 2.1.2 Methodological Necessary Conditions for the... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Part III 3. Justificatory Issues: What Arguments in Support of a Convergent-Teleological Inevitabilist View à la Perović? ❧ 3.1 Perović’s Principal Argument: The Constraints Exerted by the “Fundamental Joints and Junctures of Nature” • 3.1.1 What Source of Inevitability? The... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Part IV 4. Brief Conclusions ❧ 4.1 The Contingency of Scientific Achievements: Due to Inevitable Features of Human Knowledge Acquisition? ❧ 4.2 Should We Worry about the Contingency of Scientific Achievements? | Table of Contents | | Part I |... Read More ›Source| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
References | Table of Contents | | Part I | | Part II | | Part III | Part IV | | References | Acuña, Pablo. 2021. “Charting the Landscape of Interpretation, Theory Rivalry…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective