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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... task , we consider why the operative is at that particular task ( to the extent that his situation is the result of choice ) rather than at some other . We call this set of reasons his ' motives ' ; and we notice that these set part of ...
... task , we consider why the operative is at that particular task ( to the extent that his situation is the result of choice ) rather than at some other . We call this set of reasons his ' motives ' ; and we notice that these set part of ...
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... task usually brings a cash return on its own . The traditional professions are examples of this class of work , and in them the ' professional etiquette ' performs a very straightforward function in the harmonizing of private pur- poses ...
... task usually brings a cash return on its own . The traditional professions are examples of this class of work , and in them the ' professional etiquette ' performs a very straightforward function in the harmonizing of private pur- poses ...
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... task is defined by the needs of a particular client ; and the ultimate purposes of the task , in serving the group of clients , are present every time the work is done . By contrast , the higher final causes which condition the scientist's ...
... task is defined by the needs of a particular client ; and the ultimate purposes of the task , in serving the group of clients , are present every time the work is done . By contrast , the higher final causes which condition the scientist's ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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