Inevitability, contingency, and epistemic humility

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 55:12-19 (2016)
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Abstract

I reject both (a) inevitabilism about the historical development of the sciences and (b) what Ian Hacking calls the "put up or shut up" argument against those who make contingentist claims. Each position is guilty of a lack of humility about our epistemic capacities.

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Ian James Kidd
Nottingham University

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