Works by Soler, Léna (exact spelling)

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    Science After the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science.Lena Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Michael Lynch & Vincent Israel-Jost (eds.) - 2014 - New York: Routledge.
    In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological. Following this turn, the interest in scientific practices continued to increase and had an indelible influence in the various fields of science studies. No doubt, the practice turn changed our conceptions and approaches of science, but (...)
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    Characterizing the robustness of science: after the practice turn in philosophy of science.Lena Soler (ed.) - 2012 - New York: Springer Verlag.
    Featuring contributions from the world’s leading experts on the subject and based partly on several detailed case studies, this volume is the first comprehensive analysis of the scientific notion of robustness as well as of the general ...
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  3. Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?Lena Soler, Howard Sankey & Paul Hoyningen-Huene (eds.) - 2008 - Springer.
    The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and tension that exist between commensurability and continuity on the one hand, and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other. Moreover, it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. In relation to these topics, it investigates a number of new avenues, and revisits some familiar issues, with a focus on the history and philosophy of (...)
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    Calibration: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Scientific Practices Which Investigate Natural Phenomena by Means of Standardized Instruments.Léna Soler, Frédéric Wieber, Catherine Allamel-Raffin, Jean-Luc Gangloff, Catherine Dufour & Emiliano Trizio - 2013 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 44 (2):263-317.
    This paper deals with calibration in scientific practices which investigate relatively well-understood natural phenomena by means of already standardized instrumental devices. Calibration is a crucial topic, since it conditions the reliability of instrumental procedures in science. Yet although important, calibration is a relatively neglected topic. We think more attention should be devoted to calibration. The paper attempts to take a step in this direction. The aims are two-fold: (1) to characterize calibration in a relatively simple kind of scientific practices; (2) (...)
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    Editorial Introduction: Collins and Tacit Knowledge.Léna Soler & Sjoerd Zwart - 2013 - Philosophia Scientiae 17 (3):5-23.
    Introduction Harry Collins is internationally recognized as a distinguished sociologist of science who writes creatively on a substantial number of varied subjects. He is acknowledged as one of the prominent specialists on the topic of tacit knowledge and has played an important role in the introduction of this topic into science studies. He has investigated the topic extensively, most famously through several case studies of physics [Collins 1974, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2001a,b, 2004], [Collins &...
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    Editorial Introduction: Collins and Tacit Knowledge.Léna Soler & Sjoerd D. Zwart - 2013 - Philosophia Scientiae 17:5-23.
    Introduction Harry Collins is internationally recognized as a distinguished sociologist of science who writes creatively on a substantial number of varied subjects. He is acknowledged as one of the prominent specialists on the topic of tacit knowledge and has played an important role in the introduction of this topic into science studies. He has investigated the topic extensively, most famously through several case studies of physics [Collins 1974, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2001a,b, 2004], [Collins &...
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    Against Robustness? Strategies to Support the Reliability of Scientific Results.Léna Soler - 2014 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 28 (2):203-215.
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    Contingence ou inévitabilité des résultats de notre science?Léna Soler - 2006 - Philosophiques 33 (2):363-378.
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    The Incommensurability Problem: Evolution, Current Approaches and Recent Issues.Léna Soler - 2004 - Philosophia Scientiae 8 (1):1-38.
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    Collins’s Taxonomy of Tacit Knowledge: Critical Analyses and Possible Extensions.Léna Soler & Sjoerd Zwart - 2013 - Philosophia Scientiae 17 (3):107-134.
    In this paper, we discuss and extend the taxonomy of tacit knowledge proposed by Collins in his 2010 book, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. First, we question the definition and the name of one of Collins’s three categories of TK, namely Relational Tacit Knowledge (RTK). After having explained the true fundamental principle that individuates RTK as one category distinct from the two others (Somatic Tacit Knowledge STK and Collective Tacit Knowledge CTK), we suggest an alternative name for RTK, which fits this (...)
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    Collins’s Taxonomy of Tacit Knowledge: Critical Analyses and Possible Extensions.Léna Soler & Sjoerd D. Zwart - 2013 - Philosophia Scientiae 17:107-134.
    In this paper, we discuss and extend the taxonomy of tacit knowledge proposed by Collins in his 2010 book, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. First, we question the definition and the name of one of Collins’s three categories of TK, namely Relational Tacit Knowledge (RTK). After having explained the true fundamental principle that individuates RTK as one category distinct from the two others (Somatic Tacit Knowledge STK and Collective Tacit Knowledge CTK), we suggest an alternative name for RTK, which fits this (...)
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    Are the results of our science contingent or inevitable?Léna Soler - 2008 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (2):221-229.
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    The Incommensurability Problem: Evolution, Current Approaches and Recent Issues.Léna Soler - 2004 - Philosophia Scientiae 8:1-38.
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    What Would It be Like to be Bohmians? Experiencing a Gestalt Switch in Physics as an Effect of Path Dependence.Léna Soler - forthcoming - Social Epistemology.
    The philosophical goal is to characterize ‘path dependence’ (PAD) in science by comparison to PAD in technology where the concept was initially introduced. I rely on quantum mechanics to substantiate the analyses, exploiting the contrast between standard versus Bohmian quantum physics (NQP/BQP). To achieve the goal, counterfactual history is mobilized as a means to generate instructive virtual alternatives to the actual scientific path: I design a ‘permuted-situations counterfactual scenario’ in which it is BQP, instead of NQP, that first acquires a (...)
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    Revealing the analytical structure and some intrinsic major difficulties of the contingentist/inevitabilist issue.Léna Soler - 2008 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (2):230-241.
    The paper introduces precise definitions of the inevitabilist and contingentist positions. On this basis, it reveals the analytical structure and some inherent difficulties of the contingentist/inevitabilist issue. It then discusses some of these difficulties, relying on the thought-experiment of a ‘divided physics’. Along the way, it investigates the kinds of differences that two alternative physics should present, if they are to give rise to non-benign forms of contingentism.Keywords: Contingency; Inevitabilism; Incommensurability; Theory-comparison; Scientific realism; Constructivism.
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  16. Popper et Kuhn sur la question des choix inter-théoriques.Léna Soler - 2007 - Philosophia Scientiae 11 (1):120-132.
    L'article propose une analyse comparative des positions de Popper et de Kuhn sur quatre points liés : la comparaison des « cadres théoriques » ou des « paradigmes scientifiques » ; le pouvoir contraignant que sont susceptibles d'avoir les arguments invoqués dans les discussions critiques ; les éléments qui, en fin de compte, pèsent ou doivent peser sur les praticiens lorsqu'il s'agit d'élire un cadre théorique au détriment d'un autre ; et enfin, la conception qu'ont chacun des deux auteurs de (...)
     
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    Catherine Dufour (1964-2011).Gerhard Heinzmann, Bertrand Berche, Karine Dumesnil, Thierry Gourieux & Léna Soler - 2011 - Philosophia Scientiae 15:1-8.
    Gperhard Heinzmann, Rédacteur en chef La philosophie est la mère des sciences. Il faut avoir une bonne mémoire pour se le rappeler. Quel bonheur lorsque ce rappel vient d’une collègue qui ne l’a pas appris, mais qui éprouve la nécessité de questionner sa pratique scientifique et actualise ainsi l’ancienne métaphore! C’était le cas de Catherine Dufour. On se connaissait vaguement depuis l’école maternelle des Trois Maisons que fréquentaient nos enfants. Je fus donc très heureux de découvrir,...
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    Bibliographie sélective sur la physique quantique.Léna Soler - 2001 - Philosophia Scientiae 5 (1):143-152.
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    Characterizing Incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language.Léna Soler - 2004 - Philosophia Scientiae 8 (1):107-152.
    L’article, tout d’abord critique certains aspects de la manière dont Martin Carrier caractérise l’incommensurabilité sémantique à partir d’une théorie contextuelle du langage, puis introduit des distinctions et fait des propositions en vue de poursuivre le même projet. On soutient que deux conceptions différentes de la notion de ‘conditions d’application’, et corrélativement deux acceptions distinctes de la clause ‘préservation des relations inférentielles’, sont à l’œuvre dans la caractérisation de Carrier, et que sa thèse centrale ne tient que grâce aux déplacements de (...)
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    Characterizing Incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language.Léna Soler - 2004 - Philosophia Scientiae 8:107-152.
    L’article, tout d’abord critique certains aspects de la manière dont Martin Carrier caractérise l’incommensurabilité sémantique à partir d’une théorie contextuelle du langage, puis introduit des distinctions et fait des propositions en vue de poursuivre le même projet. On soutient que deux conceptions différentes de la notion de ‘conditions d’application’, et corrélativement deux acceptions distinctes de la clause ‘préservation des relations inférentielles’, sont à l’œuvre dans la caractérisation de Carrier, et que sa thèse centrale ne tient que grâce aux déplacements de (...)
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  21. Compte rendu d'ouvrage: Histories of the Electron. The birth of Microphysics, Jed Z. Buchwald et Andrew Warwick éd.Léna Soler - 2004 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 57 (2):525-528.
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    De la commune mesure phénoménale entre théories physiques dites incommensurables.Léna Soler - 2003 - Philosophia Scientiae 7 (2):239-265.
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    Les apports d'Alexandre Kojève à la philosophie des sciences contemporaine.Léna Soler - 2001 - Philosophia Scientiae 5 (1--Analyses historiques et philo):69-102.
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  24. Les origines de la formule ε.Léna Soler - 2001 - Philosophia Scientiae 5 (2):88-123.
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  25. Les quanta de lumière d'Einstein en 1905, comme point focal d'un réseau argumentatif complexe.Léna Soler - 1998 - Philosophia Scientiae 3 (3):107-144.
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    Popper et Kuhn sur les choix inter-théoriques.Léna Soler - 2007 - Philosophia Scientiae 11 (1):99-130.
    L’article propose une analyse comparative des positions de Popper et de Kuhn sur quatre points liés : la comparaison des « cadres théoriques » ou des « paradigmes scientifiques » ; le pouvoir contraignant que sont susceptibles d’avoir les arguments invoqués dans les discussions critiques ; les éléments qui, en fin de compte, pèsent ou doivent peser sur les praticiens lorsqu’il s’agit d’élire un cadre théorique au détriment d’un autre ; et enfin, la conception qu’ont chacun des deux auteurs de (...)
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    Popper et Kuhn sur les choix inter-théoriques.Léna Soler - 2007 - Philosophia Scientiae 11:99-130.
    L’article propose une analyse comparative des positions de Popper et de Kuhn sur quatre points liés : la comparaison des « cadres théoriques » ou des « paradigmes scientifiques » ; le pouvoir contraignant que sont susceptibles d’avoir les arguments invoqués dans les discussions critiques ; les éléments qui, en fin de compte, pèsent ou doivent peser sur les praticiens lorsqu’il s’agit d’élire un cadre théorique au détriment d’un autre ; et enfin, la conception qu’ont chacun des deux auteurs de (...)
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    Rethinking Scientific Change. Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?Lena Soler (ed.) - 2008 - Springer.
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  29. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science.Léna Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Mitchael Lynch & Vincent Israel-Jost (eds.) - 2014
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    Transformer l'idée de science et l'idéologie liée à la science?Léna Soler - 2003 - Rue Descartes 41 (3):30-40.
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    Une nouvelle espèce d'incommensurabilité en philosophie des sciences.Léna Soler - 2006 - Revue Philosophique De Louvain 104 (3):554-580.
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    Tacit aspects of experimental practices: analytical tools and epistemological consequences. [REVIEW]Léna Soler - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (3):393-433.
    In recent decades many sociologists and philosophers of science, especially the so-called ‘new experimentalists’, have stressed the need for detailed studies of real, ongoing experimental practices, and have claimed that a new image of science results from such an approach. Among the new objects of interest that have emerged from laboratory studies, an important one is the tacit dimension of scientific practices. Harry Collins, in particular, has insisted that irreducibly tacit presuppositions and skills are inevitably involved in experimental practices, and (...)
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