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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... effective , this needed to cohere with the daily practice of the scientists , and also with their general view of the world . Thus the metaphysical belief that atoms of truth exist and can be discovered in isolated investigation , had ...
... effective , this needed to cohere with the daily practice of the scientists , and also with their general view of the world . Thus the metaphysical belief that atoms of truth exist and can be discovered in isolated investigation , had ...
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... effective tariff to each would be the same as previously , and the community would be the worse for the universal cheating . But this reasoning fails to be binding on each of the consumers , and in particular on this one . In answer , I ...
... effective tariff to each would be the same as previously , and the community would be the worse for the universal cheating . But this reasoning fails to be binding on each of the consumers , and in particular on this one . In answer , I ...
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... effective enforcement of a professional ethic , it is not necessary that all members of the profession adhere to it with a total commitment . But even more than in the case of skilled tasks , there must be excellent leadership and good ...
... effective enforcement of a professional ethic , it is not necessary that all members of the profession adhere to it with a total commitment . But even more than in the case of skilled tasks , there must be excellent leadership and good ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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