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A philosophical framework holding that natural science operates within multiple, irreducible contexts—technological, institutional, historical, cultural, economic—that interact to shape what science becomes. Multicontextualism insists that no single context explains scientific practice. A discovery emerges from the context of available instruments, the context of research funding, the context of disciplinary training, the context of social values, the context of historical moment—all at once. This framework demands that historians and sociologists of science attend to the multiplicity of contexts that constitute scientific activity.
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