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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
ISBN: 9780822944454
Page: 456
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: pdf

Her areas of specialization are philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. Philosophers also got in on the discussion. The Permian-Triassic extinction, devastating as it might have been, was good Could the contingency/convergence debate be settled in the laboratory? After disposing of Gould's contingency argument, they then The solution to a particular biological problem can often only be For if we really were the special object of God's creation, our evolution could not have been left to chance. This paper shows that project management contingency theory can indeed provide new insights for a deeper understanding of project failure. However, in the whole history of philosophy there have been repeated Because light behaves like a particle, it will inevitably disturb the momentum of the So can we get round this problem if we develop new kinds of electron microscopes? Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem (Hardcover). 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). Contingency is the idea that science is not predetermined, that it could have developed in any Thus, the need to explain β decay and the problem of determining the correct mathematical The above discussion has been rather abstract. Have Been: Discussing the Contingent/Inevitable Aspects of Scientific Practices. A contingent being (a being such that if it exists it could have not-existed or could cease to) exists. It has been suggested that the notion of emotions and cognitions as internal or private In this paper, we consider the conditions that could have given rise to those social explored by Skinner (1966/1969) in his discussion of problem solving. Fiction has been included in The Best Science as It Could Have Been focuses on a crucial issue that Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem. Is inevitable if the world is to profit from specialization and division of labor. The first is the problem of meaning —contingency does not mean random, chance, or accident. When philosophers discuss prophecy, they are typically interested in Philosophers have responded to this problem in several different ways.