Science in the Context of Application
We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Changing Conditions of Scientific Research
- 1. Science and Technology
- 2. The Role of Instruments
- 3. Institutional Changes in Applied Research
- 4. Shifts in the Ontology: Part II: Science, Values, and Society
- 5. Commercialization, Politicization and Medialization of Research
- 6. Freedom of Research or social Accountability
- 7. Historical Transformations in Science