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CHARACTERIZING THE ROBUSTNESS OF SCIENCE BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Editors ROBERTS.COHEN,BostonUniversity JÜRGENRENN,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience KOSTASGAVROGLU,UniversityofAthens ManagingEditor LINDYDIVARCI,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience EditorialBoard THEODOREARABATZIS,UniversityofAthens ALISABOKULICH,BostonUniversity HEATHERE.DOUGLAS,UniversityofPittsburgh JEANGAYON,UniversitéParis1 THOMASF.GLICK,BostonUniversity HUBERTGOENNER,UniversityofGoettingen JOHNHEILBRON,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley DIANAKORMOS-BUCHWALD,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology CHRISTOPHLEHNER,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience PETERMCLAUGHLIN,UniversitätHeidelberg AGUSTÍNIETO-GALAN,UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona NUCCIOORDINE,UniversitádellaCalabria ANASIMÕES,UniversidadedeLisboa JOHNJ.STACHEL,BostonUniversity SYLVANS.SCHWEBER,HarvardUniversity BAICHUNZHANG,ChineseAcademyofScience VOLUME292 Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5710 CHARACTERIZING THE ROBUSTNESS OF SCIENCE After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science Editedby LÉNA SOLER ArchivesH.Poincaré,Laboratoired’HistoiredesSciencesetde Philosophie,Nancy,France EMILIANO TRIZIO ArchivesH.Poincaré,Laboratoired’HistoiredesSciencesetde Philosophie,Nancy,France THOMAS NICKLES UniversityofNevada,Reno,NV,USA and WILLIAM C. WIMSATT UniversityofChicago,Chicago,IL,USA 123 Editors LénaSoler EmilianoTrizio ArchivesH.Poincaré,LHPS ArchivesH.Poincaré,LHPS 91,avenuedelaLibération,54000 91,avenuedelaLibération,54000 Nancy Nancy France France [email protected] [email protected] ThomasNickles WilliamC.Wimsatt DepartmentofPhilosophy DepartmentofPhilosophy UniversityofNevada-Reno UniversityofChicago Reno,NV Chicago,IL USA USA [email protected] [email protected] ISSN0068-0346 ISBN978-94-007-2758-8 e-ISBN978-94-007-2759-5 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2759-5 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011945063 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) TothememoryofCathyDufour,ourvery dearfriendandcolleague,abright,dynamic, andgenerousperson,whoprematurelyand suddenlypassedawayinMarch2011.She wasapivotalcontributor tothePratiScienS researchdevotedtorobustness. Contents 1 Introduction: The Solidity of Scientific Achievements: StructureoftheProblem,Difficulties,Philosophical Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 LénaSoler 2 Robustness,Reliability,andOverdetermination(1981) . . . . . . . 61 WilliamC.Wimsatt 3 Robustness:Material,andInferential, intheNaturalandHumanSciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 WilliamC.Wimsatt 4 Achieving Robustness to Confirm Controversial Hypotheses:ACaseStudyinCellBiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 EmilianoTrizio 5 MultipleDerivabilityandtheReliabilityandStabilization ofTheories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 HubertusNederbragt 6 Robustness of an Experimental Result: The Example oftheTestsofBell’sInequalities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 CatherineDufour 7 ScientificImagesandRobustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 CatherineAllamel-RaffinandJean-LucGangloff 8 Are We Still Babylonians? The Structure of the FoundationsofMathematicsfromaWimsattianPerspective . . . . 189 RalfKrömer 9 Rerum Concordia Discors: Robustness and Discordant MultimodalEvidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 JacobStegenga 10 Robustness of Results and Robustness of Derivations: TheInternalArchitectureofaSolidExperimentalProof . . . . . . 227 LénaSoler vii viii Contents 11 MultipleMeansofDeterminationandMultipleConstraints ofConstruction:RobustnessandStrategiesforModeling MacromolecularObjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 FrédéricWieber 12 UnderstandingScientificPractices:TheRole ofRobustnessNotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 MiekeBoon 13 TheRobustnessofScienceandtheDanceofAgency . . . . . . . . 317 AndrewPickering 14 DynamicRobustnessandDesigninNatureandArtifact . . . . . . 329 ThomasNickles Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Contributors CatherineAllamel-Raffin IRIST,UniversityofStrasbourg,Strasbourg,France, allamelraffi[email protected] MiekeBoon DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofTwente,Enschede, TheNetherlands,[email protected] CatherineDufour† P2MDepartment,InstitutJeanLamour,UMR7198, UniversitéHenriPoincaré,Nancy,France Jean-LucGangloff IRIST,UniversityofStrasbourg,Strasbourg,France, [email protected] RalfKrömer UniversityofSiegen,Siegen,Germany, [email protected] HubertusNederbragt DescartesCentrefortheHistoryandPhilosophyofthe SciencesandtheHumanities,UtrechtUniversity,Utrecht,TheNetherlands, [email protected] ThomasNickles DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofNevada,Reno,NV, USA,[email protected] AndrewPickering DepartmentofSociologyandPhilosophy,Universityof Exeter,ExeterEX44RJ,UK;DepartmentofSociology,KyungHeeUniversity, Seoul,Korea,[email protected] LénaSoler ArchivesH.Poincaré,Laboratoired’HistoiredesSciencesetde Philosophie,UMR7117CNRS,Nancy,France,[email protected] JacobStegenga UniversityofToronto,Toronto,ON,Canada, [email protected] EmilianoTrizio ArchivesH.Poincaré,Laboratoired’HistoiredesSciencesetde Philosophie,UMR7117CNRS,Nancy,France;ArchivesHusserl,Paris,France; DepartmentofPhilosophy,SeattleUniversity,Seattle,WA,USA, [email protected] ix x Contributors FrédéricWieber ArchivesH.Poincaré,Laboratoired’HistoiredesSciencesetde Philosophie,UMR7117CNRS,Nancy,France,[email protected] WilliamC.Wimsatt DepartmentofPhilosophyandConceptualandHistorical StudiesofScience,TheUniversityofChicago,Chicago,IL,USA;Centerfor PhilosophyofScience,UniversityofMinnesota,St.Paul,MN,USA, [email protected]
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