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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... cause is the physical substance which is worked on ; the ' efficient ' cause is either the agent or his activity of shaping it ; the ' formal ' cause is the shape which is realized in the work ; and the ' final ' cause is either the ...
... cause is the physical substance which is worked on ; the ' efficient ' cause is either the agent or his activity of shaping it ; the ' formal ' cause is the shape which is realized in the work ; and the ' final ' cause is either the ...
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... cause is the first one ; only when there is some specification of the new conclusion to be drawn can we say that a problem exists . With this as the basis , all the other constituents fit into place . The ' material ' cause , the ...
... cause is the first one ; only when there is some specification of the new conclusion to be drawn can we say that a problem exists . With this as the basis , all the other constituents fit into place . The ' material ' cause , the ...
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... cause a displacement of the effective goals of individual tasks into other hierarchies of final causes . The most universal cause is that all the agents will have private purposes of their own , which are not automatically in harmony ...
... cause a displacement of the effective goals of individual tasks into other hierarchies of final causes . The most universal cause is that all the agents will have private purposes of their own , which are not automatically in harmony ...
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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 |