Real science: what it is, and what it means
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1. Verfasser: Ziman, J. M., (John M.) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-383) and index
A peculiar institution -- Basically, it's purely academic -- Adademic science -- New modes of knowledge production -- Community and communication -- Universalism and unification -- Disinterestedness and objectivity -- Originality and novelty -- Scepticism and the growth of knowledge -- What, then, can we believe?
"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."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 399 pages)
ISBN:0511009666
0511151373
0511541392
052177229X
9780511009662
9780511151378
9780511541391
9780521772297

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