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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... derived criteria of adequacy which enforce an apparently rigorous procedure of research , but whose results can but rarely escape vacuity . Such programmes of reduction and mathematiza- tion base their claims on the undoubted successes ...
... derived criteria of adequacy which enforce an apparently rigorous procedure of research , but whose results can but rarely escape vacuity . Such programmes of reduction and mathematiza- tion base their claims on the undoubted successes ...
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... derived from his desperate commitment to locate a basis of certainty for knowledge and morals . The modern descendants derive partly from a laudable desire for intellectual honesty in teaching ; and also from the wish to introduce the ...
... derived from his desperate commitment to locate a basis of certainty for knowledge and morals . The modern descendants derive partly from a laudable desire for intellectual honesty in teaching ; and also from the wish to introduce the ...
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... derived otherwise than through master- ing a body of scientific knowledge . Aristotle admitted one excep- tional case , which he called ' practical wisdom ' , deriving from a sort of craft experience of the complex and ever - changing ...
... derived otherwise than through master- ing a body of scientific knowledge . Aristotle admitted one excep- tional case , which he called ' practical wisdom ' , deriving from a sort of craft experience of the complex and ever - changing ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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