Characterizing the Robustness of Science

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Solidity of Scientific Achievements: Structure of the Problem, Difficulties, Philosophical Implications

Chapter 2 Robustness, Reliability, and Overdetermination (1981)

Chapter 3 Robustness: Material, and Inferential, in the Natural and Human Sciences

Chapter 4 Achieving Robustness to Confirm Controversial Hypotheses: A Case Study in Cell Biology

Chapter 5 Multiple Derivability and the Reliability and Stabilization of Theories

Chapter 6 Robustness of an Experimental Result: The Example of the Tests of Bell’s Inequalities

Chapter 7 Scientific Images and Robustness

Chapter 8 Are We Still Babylonians? The Structure of the Foundations of Mathematics from a Wimsattian Perspective

Chapter 9 Characterizing the Robustness of Science

Chapter 10 Robustness of Results and Robustness of Derivations: The Internal Architecture of a Solid Experimental Proof

Chapter 11 Multiple Means of Determination and Multiple Constraints of Construction: Robustness and Strategies for Modeling Macromolecular Objects

Chapter 12 Understanding Scientific Practices: The Role of Robustness Notions

Chapter 13 The Robustness of Science and the Dance of Agency

Chapter 14 Dynamic Robustness and Design in Nature and Artifact