| 书目名称 | Finalization in Science | | 副标题 | The Social Orientati | | 编辑 | Gernot Böhme,Wolfgang Daele,Wolf Schäfer,Wolf Schä | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic and controversial book. The authors propose a thesis about the social direction of scientific research which was the occasion of a lively and often bitter debate in Germany from 1976 to 1982. Their provocative thesis, briefly, is this: that modern science converges, historically, to the development of a number of ‘closed theories‘, i. e. stable and relatively completed sciences, no longer to be improved by small changes but only by major changes in an entire theoretical structure. Further: that at such a stage of ‘mature theory‘, the formerly viable norm of intra-scientific autonomy may appropriately be replaced by the social direction‘ of further scientific research (within such a ‘mature‘ field) for socially relevant or, we may bluntly say, ‘task-oriented‘ purposes. This is nothing less than a theory for the planning and social directing of science, under certain specific conditions. Understandably, it raised the sharp objections that such an approach would subordinate scientific inquiry as a free and untrammeled search for truth to the dictates of social rel | | 出版日期 | Book 1983 | | 关键词 | Renaissance; biology; philosophy of science; science | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7080-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-009-7082-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-7080-9Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | | issn_series | 0068-0346 | | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983 |
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