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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... philosophical career of their own , producing a crop of descend- ant - problems within the ancient field of methodology.17 As a field of philosophy , this is a most difficult one in which to maintain traditions of work of high quality ...
... philosophical career of their own , producing a crop of descend- ant - problems within the ancient field of methodology.17 As a field of philosophy , this is a most difficult one in which to maintain traditions of work of high quality ...
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... philosophy , Francis Bacon described two extreme patterns of development : of degeneration from a single master in philosophy , and of steady improvement in the arts.27 He believed that a true philosophy could be as progressive as the ...
... philosophy , Francis Bacon described two extreme patterns of development : of degeneration from a single master in philosophy , and of steady improvement in the arts.27 He believed that a true philosophy could be as progressive as the ...
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... Philosophy ' , on the other hand , meant reflection and explanation , as applied to any problem . Thus Dalton's atomic theory was announced in his ' New System of Chemical Philosophy ' , and what we now call ' physics ' was known as ...
... Philosophy ' , on the other hand , meant reflection and explanation , as applied to any problem . Thus Dalton's atomic theory was announced in his ' New System of Chemical Philosophy ' , and what we now call ' physics ' was known as ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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