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On Understanding the Nature of Scientific Knowledge

Educational Psychologist, 1993
One important goal of science education is to help students understand the nature of the scientific enterprise itself. We review data from several sources, indicating that middle school and high school students have a common sense epistemology of science at variance with the constructivist epistemology we advocate as the appropriate curricular goal. We
Susan Carey, Carol Smith
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Sociological Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge

Sociology Compass, 2008
Abstract Some significant insights in relation to science and its claims emerged in early sociology. However, sociologies of knowledge and science remained separate until the late 1960s. Questioning scientific knowledge raised questions about career interests, language, interaction, class and gender in shaping scientific claims ...
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Scientific Integrity-The Cornerstone of Knowledge

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2003
In the past, nurses often found themselves pressured within complex social interactions in the research environment that often overshadowed their advocacy role for the patient (Davis, 1989). With the recent emphasis on enforcing adequate protections for participants in research, nurses need to feel free to act as sentient beings with a conscience and a
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[Scientific knowledge].

Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2005
What is now called science did not exist at the time of the Renaissance; for example, the connection with magic and the occult continued to be inseparable from scientific practices. It is extremely difficult to identify a general coherence among the methods used in the widely different cultural practices that tried to understand and master the world of
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Limits of Historical and Scientific Knowledge

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2002
The purpose of this paper is to suggest that subtle and essential uncertainties in language determine the limits of science and history, and thereby define the boundaries of research in the history of science. Historical research, in the strict sense of history as opposed to prehistory, begins with the examination of written records. There is a host of
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Idealization as a Method of Scientific Knowledge

1970
“To present as better than in reality; to attribute ideal properties”: this is the explanation of the word ‘idealization’ found in the Reference Dictionary of the Russian Language. The term ‘idealization’ (Germ.: Idealisierung. Fr.: idealisation) is quite widely used in both scientific and literary publications.
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Scientific Knowledge and Structural Knowledge

2011
There is a very general question in the philosophy of science. It is this: how do we think our theories represent the world? What is theoretical knowledge in the sciences, knowledge of? One very influential answer to this question is the thesis of Structuralism: theoretical knowledge is not knowledge of unobservable objects and the hidden relations ...
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The New Understanding of Scientific Knowledge

2016
The so called standard view of scientific theories maintained that the theoretical side of science could, and should, be kept separated from its observational and experimental components and from the process of collection and organization of these components. This view went together with the linear model of the politics of science and technology.
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Predicting scientific breakthroughs based on knowledge structure variations

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
Chao Min, Yi Bu
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Scientific Knowledge

Organic Process Research & Development, 2013
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