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Science as social knowledge : values and objectivity in scientific inquiry /

Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Longino, Helen E. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Good science, bad science
  • Methodology, goals, and practices
  • Evidence and hypothesis
  • Values and objectivity
  • Values and science
  • Research on sex differences
  • Explanatory models in the biology of behavior
  • Science in society
  • Science and ideology
  • Conclusion: social knowledge.