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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... immature or ineffective field are serious and manifold . Added to the basic diffi- culties of trying to do research in a field where the pitfalls are still unidentified , there are the social constraints forced by the pretence of ...
... immature or ineffective field are serious and manifold . Added to the basic diffi- culties of trying to do research in a field where the pitfalls are still unidentified , there are the social constraints forced by the pretence of ...
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... field . Hence whenever a discipline extends a deep salient into the unknown , that point will have the characteristic features of immaturity to a greater or less extent . In a mature and ... Immature and Ineffective Fields of Inquiry 371.
... field . Hence whenever a discipline extends a deep salient into the unknown , that point will have the characteristic features of immaturity to a greater or less extent . In a mature and ... Immature and Ineffective Fields of Inquiry 371.
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... field is not a simple absence of some desired characteristic of a matured science . Indeed , a field can be kept in ... immature field to adopt methods appropriate to its con- dition , recalling the old distinction between ' philosophy ...
... field is not a simple absence of some desired characteristic of a matured science . Indeed , a field can be kept in ... immature field to adopt methods appropriate to its con- dition , recalling the old distinction between ' philosophy ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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