Real science : what it is, and what it means /
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Author / Creator: | Ziman, J. M. (John M.), 1925-2005. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 399 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11116963 |
ISBN: | 0511009666 9780511009662 0511151373 9780511151378 9780511541391 0511541392 0521893100 9780521893107 052177229X 9780521772297 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-383) and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | "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. |
Other form: | Print version: Ziman, J.M. (John M.), 1925-2005. Real science. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 052177229X |
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