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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... genuine scientific problems is not merely having bright or even brilliant ideas ; these are empty unless they are developed and enriched by the hard , complex and sophisti- cated craft work of scientific inquiry . Unless there is some ...
... genuine scientific problems is not merely having bright or even brilliant ideas ; these are empty unless they are developed and enriched by the hard , complex and sophisti- cated craft work of scientific inquiry . Unless there is some ...
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... genuine scientific knowedge , as I have defined it , should emerge from these processes , is an entirely contingent his- torical fact . The paucity of the fields in which such knowledge has been achieved so far , and the brevity of the ...
... genuine scientific knowedge , as I have defined it , should emerge from these processes , is an entirely contingent his- torical fact . The paucity of the fields in which such knowledge has been achieved so far , and the brevity of the ...
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... genuine work challenges the existing social structure of the field . By itself , then , a professional etiquette does not establish a har- mony between the private purposes of practitioners and the professed ultimate purposes of the ...
... genuine work challenges the existing social structure of the field . By itself , then , a professional etiquette does not establish a har- mony between the private purposes of practitioners and the professed ultimate purposes of the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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