id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_i5km32ftyne47foakl7bofkk5e Veli Virmajoki Local explanation in historiography of science 2020 21 .pdf application/pdf 12227 769 56 local explanations reveal the contingency of science and provide a methodologically the general historiographical interest in local conditions and despite all the philosophical discussion1 about the notion of explanation, a detailed analysis of the notion of will provide an explication of the notion of local explanation that captures the explanatory to establish the contingency of science by local explanation may not achieve much on explanation can be understood.7 This explication captures the idea that local explanations show how science was contingent on the actual location where it was produced; In Section 3, I argue that even though local explanations, in the sense of Section 2, do play a role in the historiography of science, it local explanation when a plausible change(s) in the location(s) of a factor(s) would Local explanations and the contingency of science Local explanations and the contingency of science Local explanations and the contingency of science ./cache/work_i5km32ftyne47foakl7bofkk5e.pdf ./txt/work_i5km32ftyne47foakl7bofkk5e.txt