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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... applied science . Applied science has now become the basic means of produc- tion in a modern economy . The prosperity , and economic indepen- dence , of a firm or of a nation does not rest so much in its existing factories as in the ...
... applied science . Applied science has now become the basic means of produc- tion in a modern economy . The prosperity , and economic indepen- dence , of a firm or of a nation does not rest so much in its existing factories as in the ...
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... applied by the refereeing system is inevitably conservative in its effects . Since really pioneering work involves a recasting of criteria of adequacy and value , the referee will generally find it below standard in some respect in the ...
... applied by the refereeing system is inevitably conservative in its effects . Since really pioneering work involves a recasting of criteria of adequacy and value , the referee will generally find it below standard in some respect in the ...
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... applied research which could benefit humanity only if it first produced profits for their industrial employer . The results of pharmaceutical research must pass through the cash nexus of that industry before being applied , and that ...
... applied research which could benefit humanity only if it first produced profits for their industrial employer . The results of pharmaceutical research must pass through the cash nexus of that industry before being applied , and that ...
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Introduction PART I THE VARIETIES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE 1 What is Science? | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 33 |
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1986 |
What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition) Alan F. Chalmers No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1999 |