S1 Ep 5 - Greg Radick on 'Counterfactual History of Science'
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
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The Counterfactual History of Science
The topic that's been most engaging for me over some while now has been the question of whether science might have turned out differently. I think that both for the professionals but also for a wider audience this is a really exciting topic and an exciting moment to be investigating it. We are in the business of making counterfactual assertions, so should we pretend not to? My experience is that the more options you open up within the past the more optionsyou open up for the present. That's really exciting.
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