 | Helge Reinertsen, Herborg Haaland - 1995 - 326 páginas
...pervasiveness, and novelty as a subject of scientific inquiry. Up to now the rationality of basic scientific research has been taken as a model for the rationality...successful it has been in the past, the recognition of complex environmental issues shows that this ideal of rationality is no longer universally appropriate.... | |
 | Martin Carrier, Don Howard (professor.), Janet A. Kourany - 2008 - 304 páginas
...uncertainty and complexity. This is quite clear in the following quote from Funtowicz and Ravetz (1993): "Until now, with the dominance of applied science,...rationality is no longer universally appropriate" (754). In simple words, if the accuracy of expert advice in a given issue is unknown or may be suspected... | |
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Up to now, with the dominance of Applied Science, the rationality of reductionist natural-scientific research has been taken as a model for the rationality of intellectual and social activity in general. However successful it has been in the past, the... 