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Mar
19
2009
Contingency and social sciencePublished in social science, science, research, legitimacy, institutions, fiction, explanation, contingency, academia by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (0)Attending a talk last week about contingency in science (held as part of CPNSS project ‘Contingency and Dissent in Science) left me rather confused. As I found it, the concept of contingency, at least at the LSE, seems to be a name (or a subset-not in a strictly set-theoretical sense!) of the nowadays quite classical realism-antirealism debate. That is, I found no references to Rorty. Although quite understandable, it still seems odd to pass the ‘practical turn' of the 1980s in one sentence, just slightly overlooking some significant parts of more recent developments in philosophy. On the other hand, the bent is quite reasonable considering the institutional traditions.
Mar
04
2009
Incommensurability, explanation, world viewsPublished in world view, policy, methodological individualism, institutions, governance, explanation, decision-making, causality by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (0)Consider LSE's slogan: rerum cognoscere causas ("to know the causes of things", ripped from Virgil, I suppose). It makes a direct claim favouring causal explanation. Another matter, however, more rooted in the Anglo-American tradition is the tendency to embrace methodological individualism (individuals matter). |
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