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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... present conditions , they could not long survive as effective controls on action . The Industrialization of Production in Science For a comparison of the present age with the one preceding it , we can best start with the changed ...
... present conditions , they could not long survive as effective controls on action . The Industrialization of Production in Science For a comparison of the present age with the one preceding it , we can best start with the changed ...
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Jerome R. Ravetz. Our present task , then , is not to decide whether the two dominant images of science are correct portrayals of the past and the present ; but to establish the categories in whose terms problems relating to that ...
Jerome R. Ravetz. Our present task , then , is not to decide whether the two dominant images of science are correct portrayals of the past and the present ; but to establish the categories in whose terms problems relating to that ...
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... present time , the disciplines that present the most obvious evidence of ineffectiveness or at least immaturity , are those which attempt to study human behaviour in the style of the mathematical- experimental natural sciences . But it ...
... present time , the disciplines that present the most obvious evidence of ineffectiveness or at least immaturity , are those which attempt to study human behaviour in the style of the mathematical- experimental natural sciences . But it ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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