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Holmes, Richard. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (review)Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 23 (1-2): 201-202. 2011.
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5The scientific attitudeWestview Press. 1992.The Scientific Attitude presents a systematic account of the cognitive and social features of science. Written by an experimental biologist actively engaged in research, the work is unique in its attempt to understand science in terms of day-to-day practice. The book goes beyond the traditional description of science that focuses on method and logic to characterize the scientific attitude as a way of looking at the world.
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78Research Integrity and Everyday Practice of ScienceScience and Engineering Ethics 19 (3): 685-701. 2013.Science traditionally is taught as a linear process based on logic and carried out by objective researchers following the scientific method. Practice of science is a far more nuanced enterprise, one in which intuition and passion become just as important as objectivity and logic. Whether the activity is committing to study a particular research problem, drawing conclusions about a hypothesis under investigation, choosing whether to count results as data or experimental noise, or deciding what in…Read more
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40Harry Collins, Are We All Scientific Experts Now? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 144. ISBN 978-0-7456-8204-4. £9.99 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 48 (3): 540-541. 2015.
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8Endings of Clinical Research Protocols: Distinguishing Therapy from ResearchIRB: Ethics & Human Research 12 (4): 1. 1990.
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413Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meeting Objectivity and LogicOxford University Press. 2008.This book describes how scientists bring their own interests and passions to their work, illustrates the dynamics between researchers and the research community ...
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161Doing scienceKnowledge, Technology & Policy 15 (1-2): 204-210. 2002.In recent decades, postmodernists and sociologists of science have argued that science is just one of many human activities with social and political aims -- comparable to, say, religion or art. They have questioned the objectivity of science, and whether it has any unique ability to find the truth. Not surprisingly, such claims have evoked a negative response from proponents of the traditional view of science; the debate between the two sides has been called the science wars. In the debate, sci…Read more
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87Complementarity: an approach to understanding the relationship between science and religionPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 29 (2): 292. 1986.Everyday experiences include many mundane activities such as getting up, washing, dressing, eating, and going to work. Although most people take these activities for granted, it is possible to reflect on and experience them in special ways [I]. One can, for instance, adopt a scientific attitude. According to this view, there are universal laws that can account for the content of experience, and these laws can be revealed through scientific investigation. In this case, a scientific domain is supe…Read more
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25Are scientific papers examples of rhetoric?: Commentary on “Rhetoric, technical writing, and ethics”Science and Engineering Ethics 5 (4): 487-488. 1999.
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