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Real science : what it is, and what it means /
"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 competitio...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A peculiar institution
- Basically, it's purely academic
- Academic 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?