Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Social Construction of Science
On page 32, contingency is just social construction thesis that in a non-trivial sense, successful science didn't have to develop the way it did. You could have come up with a different science. It could have had different successes evolving in other ways that did not converge in the world it was taken. The very categories that you use to break up the world could have been different.
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