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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... particular fact be independent of the relevant aspects of the theory being tested through an encounter with that fact . Epistemology aside , practical experience and history show that even the hardest facts are not quite impenetrable ...
... particular fact be independent of the relevant aspects of the theory being tested through an encounter with that fact . Epistemology aside , practical experience and history show that even the hardest facts are not quite impenetrable ...
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... particular experience is not very tight at all . Some of the classic ' laws ' of nature have been derived from particular experience by pure or nearly pure induction ; such are Kepler's laws of planetary motion , and Boyle's law of the ...
... particular experience is not very tight at all . Some of the classic ' laws ' of nature have been derived from particular experience by pure or nearly pure induction ; such are Kepler's laws of planetary motion , and Boyle's law of the ...
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... particular interactions with it , observed by means of their senses . That which we can recognize as scientific knowledge has achieved its state only by surviving a long series of ruthless selections , and of drastic changes in the ...
... particular interactions with it , observed by means of their senses . That which we can recognize as scientific knowledge has achieved its state only by surviving a long series of ruthless selections , and of drastic changes in the ...
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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 |