@inbook {3654,
	title = {Concepts Out of Theoretical Contexts},
	booktitle = {T. Arabatzis, J. Renn, A. Sim{\~o}es (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {225-238},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	address = {Dordrecht},
	abstract = {In this paper we take as our point of departure Kostas Gavroglu and Yorgos Goudaroulis{\textquoteright}s insight that, in the process of describing and explaining novel phenomena, scientific concepts are taken {\textquotedblleft}out of{\textquotedblright} their original theoretical context, acquire additional meaning, and become relatively autonomous. We first present their account of how concepts are re-contextualized and, in the process, extended and/or revised. We then situate it within its philosophical context, and discuss how it broke with a long-standing philosophical tradition about concepts. Finally, we argue that recent developments in science studies can flesh out and vindicate the {\textquotedblleft}concepts out of contexts{\textquotedblright} idea. In particular, historical and philosophical studies of experimentation and cognitive-historical studies of modeling practices indicate various ways in which concepts are formed and articulated {\textquotedblleft}out of context{\textquotedblright}.},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14553-2_15},
	author = {Arabatzis, T. and Nersessian, N. J.}
}
