How knowledge grows : the evolutionary development of scientific practice /
"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Again with the science and the evolution?
- The persistence of practice
- Isolation of the evolving population
- Directionality and the refinement of scientific practice
- Branching and the growth of scientific knowledge
- The recovery of scientific knowledge
- The philosophical foundations of disciplinary autonomy
- Attempted paleontology
- Wonderful death.
