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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... physicists , and also for their field , that this most aristocratic and philosophical of studies should have been the one which created the runaway military tech- nology of nuclear weapons . By this work , physics was tarnished beyond ...
... physicists , and also for their field , that this most aristocratic and philosophical of studies should have been the one which created the runaway military tech- nology of nuclear weapons . By this work , physics was tarnished beyond ...
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... physics again that we find another symptom of a loss of morale : the sense that there are no more challenging problems which can be solved . 37 In the period before the Second World War , the most exciting part of physics was the study ...
... physics again that we find another symptom of a loss of morale : the sense that there are no more challenging problems which can be solved . 37 In the period before the Second World War , the most exciting part of physics was the study ...
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... physics is given by D. C. Montgomery and D. A. Tidman , Plasma Kinetic Theory ( McGraw - Hill , 1964 ) , preface , p . vi . On theory and experiment : ' there is so far very little overlap in plasma physics between accurately measurable ...
... physics is given by D. C. Montgomery and D. A. Tidman , Plasma Kinetic Theory ( McGraw - Hill , 1964 ) , preface , p . vi . On theory and experiment : ' there is so far very little overlap in plasma physics between accurately measurable ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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