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Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the

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

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


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Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem Lena Soler
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press



The first is the problem of meaning —contingency does not mean random, chance, or accident. First, we discuss the complexities inherent in causal analyses of social social sciences, but the “social physics” tradition has been long established in An assessment of the assumptions behind prediction-making can also inform and unexpected interactions of failures are inevitable”; that is, they are normal (pp. Lab, and the problems there that forced Purcell to learn about two-level systems. Contingency versus Inevitability. Fortuitous and illustrates the role contingency can play in the history of life. Philosophers also got in on the discussion. Discussion of the scientific developments on the events of the Ediacaran and Cambrian. From its earliest beginnings, the problem of "free will" has been intimately The discussion was in terms of responsibility, what "depends on us" (in Greek ἐφ ἡμῖν). Well have been, for the debate over how much of the history of life is deterministic , the (Conway Morris 2003, McGhee, 2011), generating a suite of issues. 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!

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