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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... ment , deriving from the character of the work itself . No set of particular examples can provide conclusive evidence for general theses of the sort argued here . Many of my arguments will appear as restatements of the obvious to those ...
... ment , deriving from the character of the work itself . No set of particular examples can provide conclusive evidence for general theses of the sort argued here . Many of my arguments will appear as restatements of the obvious to those ...
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... ment , in all its particularity.3 In this work with pieces of physical equipment , the scientist is a very special sort of craftsman , for the objects he is dealing with are highly artificial . The relation of the readings taken off the ...
... ment , in all its particularity.3 In this work with pieces of physical equipment , the scientist is a very special sort of craftsman , for the objects he is dealing with are highly artificial . The relation of the readings taken off the ...
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... ment of funds , and hence social approval , then the field may find itself becoming ingrown and eventually stagnant through the entirely natural working of these social judgements of value against deeply original projects . Components ...
... ment of funds , and hence social approval , then the field may find itself becoming ingrown and eventually stagnant through the entirely natural working of these social judgements of value against deeply original projects . Components ...
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Introduction PART I THE VARIETIES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE 1 What is Science? | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 33 |
31 | 56 |
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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 |