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Real science : what it is, and what it means
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521772297
- ISBN10 052177229X
- Type Book
- Pages 399
- Published 2000
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
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History And Philosophy Of ScienceReal science : what it is, and what it means
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Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is strictly regulated by established practices such as peer review. Highly specialized international communities of independent experts form spontaneously and generate the type of knowledge we call 'scientific' - systematic, theoretical, empirically tested, quantitative, and so on. Ziman shows that these familiar 'philosophical' features of scientific knowledge are inseparable from the ordinary cognitive capabilities and peculiar social relationships of its producers. This wide angled close-up of the natural and human sciences recognizes their unique value, whilst revealing the limits of their rationality, reliability and universal applicability. It also shows how, for better or worse, the new 'post-academic' research culture of teamwork, accountability, etc. is changing these supposedly eternal philosophical characteristics.- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521772297
- ISBN10 052177229X
- Type Book
- Pages 399
- Published 2000
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
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