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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... ment , deriving from the character of the work itself . No set of particular examples can provide conclusive evidence for general theses of the sort argued here . Many of my arguments will appear as restatements of the obvious to those ...
... ment , deriving from the character of the work itself . No set of particular examples can provide conclusive evidence for general theses of the sort argued here . Many of my arguments will appear as restatements of the obvious to those ...
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... ment , in all its particularity.3 In this work with pieces of physical equipment , the scientist is a very special sort of craftsman , for the objects he is dealing with are highly artificial . The relation of the readings taken off the ...
... ment , in all its particularity.3 In this work with pieces of physical equipment , the scientist is a very special sort of craftsman , for the objects he is dealing with are highly artificial . The relation of the readings taken off the ...
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... ment of scientific knowledge is never independent of the judge- ments which control the investigations of particular problems ; and , since we are concerned with the direction of research , the judge- ment of value is crucial here ...
... ment of scientific knowledge is never independent of the judge- ments which control the investigations of particular problems ; and , since we are concerned with the direction of research , the judge- ment of value is crucial here ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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