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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... external world , then those foundations would seem to be peculiarly insecure and complicated . And so it is ; the wonder is not that our scientific knowledge is an imperfect and fallible picture of the external world , but rather that ...
... external world , then those foundations would seem to be peculiarly insecure and complicated . And so it is ; the wonder is not that our scientific knowledge is an imperfect and fallible picture of the external world , but rather that ...
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... external world is neither immediate nor certain . Philosophical reflection on this feature of the objects of scientific inquiry can lead to a denial of the possibility of real knowledge of the external world ; but this consequence ...
... external world is neither immediate nor certain . Philosophical reflection on this feature of the objects of scientific inquiry can lead to a denial of the possibility of real knowledge of the external world ; but this consequence ...
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... external world may exist in the mind of God ; but it is clearly beyond the capacity of human beings , who derive their knowledge of the external world ultimately from particular interactions with it , observed by means of their senses ...
... external world may exist in the mind of God ; but it is clearly beyond the capacity of human beings , who derive their knowledge of the external world ultimately from particular interactions with it , observed by means of their senses ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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