inevitabilist

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1. Characteristic of inevitabilism.

   The Trojan horse of computer meditation—devices, apps, connection—enters the scene in a relentless deluge of inevitabilist rhetoric, successfully distracting us from the highly intentional and historically contingent surveillance capitalism within.

   2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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   What are the typical inevitabilist replies? They correspond to relatively familiar arguments in the philosophy of science for, at this point in our inquiry, the contingentist/inevitabilist debate intersects with more traditional debates about the underdeterminination of theory by empirical facts […]

   2016, Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Andrew Pickering, editors, Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN