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A paean to contingency

Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering (eds.): Science as it could have been: discussing the contingency/inevitability problem. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 2015, x+462pp, $61.95 HB

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Martin, J.D. A paean to contingency. Metascience 25, 437–441 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0098-1

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