Scientific Knowledge and Its Social ProblemsOxford University Press, 1973 - 449 páginas Analyses the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems, and demonstrates the role of choice and value-judgement, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. |
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... caloric ' , of ' phlogiston ' , and of ' vitalism ' ; in each case it was shown that only a refusal of certain scientists to open their eyes to the obvious kept the bad old theory alive . What such a commitment did to the study of the ...
... caloric ' , of ' phlogiston ' , and of ' vitalism ' ; in each case it was shown that only a refusal of certain scientists to open their eyes to the obvious kept the bad old theory alive . What such a commitment did to the study of the ...
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... theoretical explanation of some of them , problems could be set and solved ; for others only problem - situations remained . The production of work by a heat- engine could be explained , in the 1840s , either by a ' fall ' of caloric in ...
... theoretical explanation of some of them , problems could be set and solved ; for others only problem - situations remained . The production of work by a heat- engine could be explained , in the 1840s , either by a ' fall ' of caloric in ...
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... theory could have been a good one , scientifi- cally justifiable in its own times . For this would have entailed the ... caloric theory of heat in favour of a mechanical interpretation . His scientific contemporaries , however , had a ...
... theory could have been a good one , scientifi- cally justifiable in its own times . For this would have entailed the ... caloric theory of heat in favour of a mechanical interpretation . His scientific contemporaries , however , had a ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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