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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... goals . The goals set by the organization operate only as external constraints on his specification of the complex private task ; and these constraints are effective only to the extent that his fulfil- ment of the goals can be ...
... goals . The goals set by the organization operate only as external constraints on his specification of the complex private task ; and these constraints are effective only to the extent that his fulfil- ment of the goals can be ...
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... goals and private purposes : where the private purposes of all the agents ( including those exercising decision and control ) are domin- ant over the collective goals , and where these latter are fulfilled in a perfunctory or spurious ...
... goals and private purposes : where the private purposes of all the agents ( including those exercising decision and control ) are domin- ant over the collective goals , and where these latter are fulfilled in a perfunctory or spurious ...
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... goals of individual tasks into other hierarchies of final causes . The most universal cause is that all the agents will have private purposes of their own , which are not automatically in harmony with the goals determined by the ...
... goals of individual tasks into other hierarchies of final causes . The most universal cause is that all the agents will have private purposes of their own , which are not automatically in harmony with the goals determined by the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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