Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems is a 1971 book by Jerome Ravetz. It contains a reasoned illustration of science as a social process with all...
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Goodhart's law (section Priority and background)
similar insights at the time. Jerome Ravetz's 1971 book Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems also predates Goodhart, though it does not formulate...
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Science (redirect from Scientific knowledge)
instead of the scientific method as their main methodology. Meanwhile, applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes...
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scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with...
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Jerome Ravetz (section Life and work)
philosopher of science. He is best known for his books analysing scientific knowledge from a social and ethical perspective, focusing on issues of quality. He is...
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Modern science and human values. Oxford University Press. p. 75. Ravetz, J.R. (1996). Scientific knowledge and its social problems. New Brunswick, N...
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Replication crisis (category Scientific method)
1971 book Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems, philosopher and historian of science Jerome R. Ravetz predicted that science—in its progression...
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developed and furthered economic knowledge as a hard science. The last path was the correlation of knowledge and social values; the antipositivism and verstehen...
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science and society. "We can best understand this anthology as a 20-year continuation of his seminal study, Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems". In...
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local knowledge problem is the argument that the information required for rational economic planning is distributed among individual actors and thus unavoidably...
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knowledge, which investigates the social factors involved in the production and validation of scientific knowledge. This encompasses examining the impact...
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Post-normal science (category Scientific method)
[page needed] Ravetz, J. R., 1971. Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems. Oxford University Press.[page needed] Funtowicz, S. and Ravetz, J., "Post-normal...
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Fact (redirect from Scientific fact)
Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-851-2. Cassell, Eric J. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine...
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Science wars (category Scientific controversies)
the formation of scientific theories.[citation needed] In 1971, Jerome Ravetz published Scientific knowledge and its social problems, a book describing...
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Historiography of science (redirect from Historiography of science and technology)
as Jerome Ravetz's Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems (1971) referred to the role of the scientific community, as a social construct, in accepting...
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The No Nonsense Guide To Science (category Scientific method)
its 142 pages cover several themes, in part synthesizing previous works such as Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems, The Merger of Knowledge...
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Social epistemology refers to a broad set of approaches that can be taken in epistemology (the study of knowledge) that construes human knowledge as a...
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Trust in Numbers (redirect from Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life)
Replication of Experiments in Physics. Sociology, 9(2), 205–224. Ravetz, J. R. (1971). Scientific knowledge and its social problems, Oxford University Press....
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A knowledge production mode is a term from the sociology of science which refers to the way (scientific) knowledge is produced. So far, three modes have...
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and Its Problems is a 1927 book by American philosopher John Dewey. In his first major work on political philosophy, Dewey explores the viability and...
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Epistemology (redirect from Knowledge (philosophy))
knowledge in specific fields, like scientific, mathematical, moral, and religious knowledge. Naturalized epistemology relies on empirical methods and...
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Theory (redirect from List of scientific theories and laws)
experimentation, and research. Theories can be scientific, falling within the realm of empirical and testable knowledge, or they may belong to non-scientific disciplines...
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theories (conjectures) and error elimination (refutation) that scientific knowledge advances toward greater and greater problems; in a process very much...
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detailed the connection between the sociology of scientific knowledge and Kuhn in his book T. S. Kuhn and Social Science. In particular, Kuhn's ideas regarding...
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The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th century. Historically...
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Sociology (redirect from Scientific sociology)
the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects...
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Pseudoscience (redirect from Psuedo-scientific)
determining whether a body of knowledge, method, or practice is scientific. Experimental results should be reproducible and verified by other researchers...
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of Problems in AI AI-Easy-Classification of Problems in AI]." MAICS 2012. Andrich, C, Novosel, L, and Hrnkas, B. (2009). Common Sense Knowledge. Information...
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Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated, and knowledge is constructed through...
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Academic discipline (redirect from Academic knowledge)
a subdivision of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part) and recognized by the...
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