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Real Science : What it Is and What it Means.
This systematic, carefully reasoned, but non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge opens the way to reconciliation in the 'science wars'. By describing how academic scientists actually undertake research and communicate their findings, it shows that the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 A peculiar institution; 2 Basically, it s purely academic; 3 Academic science; 4 New modes of knowledge production; 5 Community and communication; 6 Universalism and unification; 7 Disinterestedness and objectivity; 8 Originality and novelty; 9 Scepticism and the growth of knowledge; 10 What, then, can we believe?; Endnotes; Bibliography and author index; Index.