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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... solution can even be achieved ; and in general the form that the tentative solution takes will depend on the projected means of its accomplishment . This is of course a matter of degree ; as a limiting case there is the handful of ...
... solution can even be achieved ; and in general the form that the tentative solution takes will depend on the projected means of its accomplishment . This is of course a matter of degree ; as a limiting case there is the handful of ...
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... solution of a technical prob- lem , quite independently of the commercial success of its result . We do this when rendering honour to great inventors and engineers of the past ; and it is necessary when assessing the quality of any ...
... solution of a technical prob- lem , quite independently of the commercial success of its result . We do this when rendering honour to great inventors and engineers of the past ; and it is necessary when assessing the quality of any ...
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... solution of technical problems , involving the pro- duction of the means for the performance of a function , or practical problems , involving the achievement of the purposes of individuals or groups of people . Each of these other ...
... solution of technical problems , involving the pro- duction of the means for the performance of a function , or practical problems , involving the achievement of the purposes of individuals or groups of people . Each of these other ...
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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 |