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This paper argues that the claims about limits to science are assentially unpersuasive. …
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J. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between … science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen … pastoral, agricultural, feudal, capitalist, and socialist systems, and conversely the ways in which science has altered …
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, experiential knowledge of God. The knowledge (if any) afforded by Science comes by the method of ‘conjectures and refutations … faith, religious knowledge—which fails the test of falsifiability—can be of no service to science. If economics generates …
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Il lavoro ha l'obiettivo di analizzare sociologia ed economia dal punto di vista del loro statuto di scienze, cercando di evidenziare reciproche contraddizioni e possibili terreni di condivisione, allo scopo di rintracciare una "nuova alleanza" tra i due corpi disciplinari.<br>[The paper aims to...
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La statistique italienne de la premiere moitie du XXe siecle se caracterise par les trois traits suivants: (1) l'originalite et l'importance relatives de sa contribution scientifique; (2) sa position nettement dominante vis-a-vis des sciences sociales de l'epoque; (3) l'environnement politique...
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science? By using a worldwide survey among demographers in developed and developing countries, we show that the large majority … perceived extrinsic rewards and stated intrinsic rewards of practicing science, it turns out that publication pressure …
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Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the …
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movers and stayers have identical h-index citations scores. Immigrants in the UK and US now win Nobel Prizes proportionately …
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well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a …
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at publication and were later retracted face heavy citation losses, while subsequent citations become more accurate …
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