Search Results - subject:"scientiﬁc knowledge"

Is plant breeding science objective truth or social construction? The case of yield stability

Cleveland, David - In: Agriculture and Human Values 18 (2001) 3, pp. 251-270

This article presents a holistic framework for understanding the scienceof plant breeding, as an alternative to the common objectivist andconstructivist approaches in studies of science. It applies thisapproach to understanding disagreements about how to deal with yieldstability. Two contrasting...

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Friedrich Hayek vs. Karl Popper : éléments pour un débat sur la connaissance économique

Versailles, David; Schmidt, Christian - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000

and their "friendship" are nothing but the conclusion of autonomous and together irrelevant views about scientific … knowledge in economics. We inquire in this paper their analysis of historicism and the status they attribute to experiments; we …

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The Fear of Unreason: Science Wars and Sociology

Cooper, Geoff - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (1999) 3

the discipline of sociology today. These reasons include: the participation of the sociology of scientific knowledge; the …

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Challenging the boundaries of local and scientific knowledge in Australia: Opportunities for social learning in managing temperate upland pastures

Millar, Joanne; Curtis, Allan - In: Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1999) 4, pp. 389-399

the nature of local and scientific knowledge. Less attention has been paid to the interaction of different ways of knowing … for sustainable capital-intensive agriculture. This paper explores the relationship between local and scientific knowledge … stakeholders involved in pasture research and development. The interchange of local and scientific knowledge in groups was shown to …

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Varieties of Limits to Scientific Knowledge

Hut, Piet; Ruelle, David; Traub, Joseph - Santa Fe Institute - 1998

Any area of knowledge is structured by an intricate interplay of limits, and joining. An apparently restrictive limit may actually reveal itself as liberating. We discuss the role that limits play in the real world, in our mathematical idealizations, and inthe mappings between them. We propose a...

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The Unknown and the Unknowable

Traub, Joseph F. - Santa Fe Institute - 1996

I raise questions regarding the unknown and the unknowable in science. I also briefly address two topics which have been much in the news in 1996, and which might erroneously be confused with my topic. These are, first, the book by John Horgan, called The End of Science, and second, the great...

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