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Finalization in Science :

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Finalization in Science :

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the Social Orientation of Scientific Progress

by Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang Daele, Rainer Hohlfeld, Wolfgang Krohn, Wolf Schäfer ; edited by Wolf Schäfer.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1983

(336 pages)

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 77.

Authors' Introduction --;I. Case Studies --;Summary of Contributions --;Agricultural Chemistry. The Origin and Structure of a Finalized Science --;Autonomization and Finalization: A Comparison of Fermentation Research and Fluid Mechanics --;Cancer Research. A Study of Praxis-Related Theoretical Developments in Chemistry, the Biosciences and Medicine --;II. Theoretical Considerations --;Summary of Contributions --;Finalization Revisited --;The Scientification of Technology --;Normative Finalization --;III. Prospects --;Summary of Contributions --;Science in a Crisis of Legitimation --;Towards a Social Science of Nature --;Introductory Note --;The Finalization Debate: A Reply to our Critics. With a Bibliography of the Finalization Discussion and Debate --;Bibliography of the Finalization Discussion and Debate --;I. The anti-finalization campaign and debate in the media --;III. Contributions to the academic finalization discussion and debate --;Notes on Authors --;Index of Names.

These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic and controversial book.

Humanities.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

by Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang Daele, Rainer Hohlfeld, Wolfgang Krohn, Wolf Schäfer ; edited by Wolf Schäfer.

Gernot Böhme

Rainer Hohlfeld

Wolf Schäfer

Wolfgang Daele

Wolfgang Krohn

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