Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
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Confers
Craft Knowledge
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error in scientific practice
ethical challenges in scientific research
ethical problems
Follow
Genuine Scientific Knowledge
Grand Problem
Holds
Independent
Industrialized Science
Interpersonal Channel
Judgement
Maintenance
Mankind
Natural World
philosophy of science
Prestige
research ethics
Runaway Technology
scientific knowledge
scientific methodology
Scientific Problem
social problems
sociology of science
Spokesmen
Strong
Unstable
value judgment in research
Violated
Worthwhile
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781560008514
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.
Jerome R. Ravetz taught history and philosophy of science at the University of Leeds; he is now based in London, as a consultant and independent scholar.
