Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems - Softcover

Ravetz, Jerome R.

 
9781560008514: Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1560008512 ISBN 13: 9781560008514
Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1560008512
ISBN 13 
9781560008514
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
478

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