Controversy Spaces -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. On the model of controversy spaces -- 2. On the contents of this book -- Part I. The model of controversy spaces -- Chapter 1. Controversy spaces -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scientific controversies: two opposed models -- 3. Philosophical controversies: Scandal of reason? -- 4. The model of controversy spaces -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II. Controversy spaces in the history of philosophy -- Chapter 2. Historiographic refocalization and change in the historicity regime -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three historiographic controversies and the model of controversy spaces -- 2.1 The Methodenstreit -- 2.2 The controversy on "the long term" (longue durée) -- 2.3 The controversy over narrativism -- 3. The representation of the past in the light of traumatic events and the ethical-legal turn in history -- 3.1 The weak flank of narration -- 3.2 The notion of history in the present time and its legal matrix -- 3.3 The singularity of the Shoah as refocalization and its impact on the narrative controversy -- 3.4 Historiographic refocalization and change in the historicity regime -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. A brief history of supervenience in the controversy space of recent philosophy of mind -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Supervenience before its arrival to the philosophy of mind -- 3. An overview of philosophy of mind before the 70's -- 4. Supervenience enters the scene of philosophy of mind -- 5. The supervenience frenzy in the 80's -- 6. Why supervenience lost popularity -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Controversy spaces in the history of science -- Chapter 4. The problem of irreversibility, from Fourier to Chaos theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 2.1 The science of heat.

2.2 Maxwell's distribution law -- 2.3 The program of Boltzmann -- 3. The first stage of the controversy space -- 3.1 The criticisms of Loschmidt and Zermelo -- 3.2 The statistical interpretation of the Second Law -- 3.3 The controversy space at the end of the 19th century -- 3.4 Gibbs and the epistemic interpretation of irreversibility -- 3.5 The initial structure of the controversy space -- 3.6 The conformation of a wide controversy space -- 4. Conceptual blockage and unblocking -- 4.1 Blockage of a controversy space -- 4.2 The "discovery" of instability -- 4.3 Factors leading to unblocking -- 5. The second stage of the controversy space -- 5.1 The present state of the debate -- 5.2 The new structure of the controversy space -- 5.3 Refocalization versus substitution -- 6. Contributions to the model -- 6.1 The core of a controversy space -- 6.2 From controversies to controversy spaces -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 5. The relation between Chemistry and Physics -- 1. Origins and historical development of the debate about the relation between chemistry and physics. -- 2. Conceptual framework of the controversy space: Epistemological and ontological reductions -- 3. The debate about epistemological reduction -- 4. Ontological reduction: A shared assumption -- 5. An incipient perspective: The rejection of ontological reduction -- 6. The case of atomic orbitals -- 7. The debate in the light of the model of controversy spaces -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6. Jacques Rohault's system of natural philosophy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Natural philosophy and the vicissitudes of a textbook -- 3. Rohault: his distancing from Aristotle, his rereading of Cartesianism, and some peripheral modifications -- 4. Atomism and corpuscularianism -- 5. Samuel Clarke and his translation of Rohault's Traité de physique.

6. Samuel Clarke versus Jacques Rohault: Some axes of the controversy space -- 7. Two notions of space and their theoretical consequences -- References -- Chapter 7. How DNA became an important molecule -- 1. Introduction: Avery's case -- 2. The phenomenon of bacterial transformation -- 3. Inference to the best explanation as an exercise in cognitive decision theory -- 4. The actors in Avery's case as rational agents in search of the best available explanation -- 4.1 What was the goal? Possible answers that prompted the research -- 4.2 Conflicting hypotheses. An IBE for Avery's partisans -- 4.3 Further research. Mirsky and the work on proteins -- 5. Controversy spaces in genetics and in the historiography of biology -- 5.1 Controversies in the field of biology -- 5.2 Controversies within the historiography of biology -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. The development of 20th-century American linguistics as a controversy space -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The common ground of American linguistics -- 3. American linguistics as a controversy space: Behaviorist views -- 4. The background of a refocalization: The structuralist-behavioristic blockage regarding syntactic description and the notion of "language acquisition" -- 5. Beginnings of the generative-transformational refocalization: Grammaticality and acceptability -- 6. Development and permanence of the refocalization: Elaborating conceptual change -- 7. New blockages and new refocalizations: Sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and neurocognitive linguistics -- 7.1 Sociolinguistics, with special reference to William Labov -- 7.2 Cognitive linguistics, with special reference to George Lakoff -- 7.3 Neurocognitive linguistics, with special reference to Sydney Lamb -- 8. Recapitulation and conclusions -- References -- Contributors -- Author index -- Subject index.