Science and Its Fabrication

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Open University Press, 1990 - 142 pages
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Aided by historical examples, this book shows how a qualified defence of science is possible that occupies middle ground between ideological glorifications and radical denials or rejections of it. The book then gives a clarification of the limitations of science.

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Contents

Against Universal Method
11
The Aim of Science
23
Observation Objectified
41
Experiment
66
Science and the Sociology of Knowledge
80
Two Sociological Case Studies
96
The Social and Political Dimension of Science
115
Appendix The Extraordinary Prehistory of
126
Bibliography
133
26
140
Copyright

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TitleScience and Its Fabrication
AuthorAlan Francis Chalmers
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOpen University Press, 1990
Original fromUniversity of California, Berkeley
Digitized18 Jan 2023
ISBN0335093183, 9780335093182
Length142 pages
  
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