Black Boxes: How Science Turns Ignorance Into Knowledge
New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2021) Copy BIBTEX
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Bricks and boxes -- Between Scylla and Charybdis -- Lessons from the history of science -- Placeholders -- Black-boxing 101 -- History of science 'black-boxing style' -- Diet mechanistic philosophy -- Emergence reframed -- The fuel of scientific progress -- Sailing through the strait.Author's Profile
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