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On disciplinary fragmentation and scientific progress. [PDF]
Why are some scientific disciplines, such as sociology and psychology, more fragmented into conflicting schools of thought than other fields, such as physics and biology?
Stefano Balietti +2 more
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Scientific progress and clinical uncertainty. [PDF]
Abstract In the path underway towards Precision Medicine, two areas are in rapid development: genetics and artificial intelligence. In the genetic area, there are two current problems, both of the highest social importance. The first concerns the project, emerging in some countries, of systematic sequencing of the genome in the whole ...
Tavazzi L.
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Structural barriers to scientific progress. [PDF]
Structural biases, which are intrinsic in the social structures in which we function, play a key role in maintaining boundaries between traditionally privileged and underprivileged groups; however, they are particularly difficult to identify from within those societies.
Cowtan K.
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Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?
When science makes cognitive progress, who or what is it that improves in the requisite way? According to a widespread and unchallenged assumption, it is the cognitive attitudes of scientists themselves, i.e. the agents by whom scientific progress is made, that improve during progressive episodes.
Finnur Dellsen
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Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account [PDF]
Finnur Dellsen
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On possibility of creating waveguide sound insulator based on MR material with metal inclusions [PDF]
The problem of reducing the emitted vibrational energy through pipeline systems is relevant. The paper considers the fundamental possibility of constructing a waveguide silencer for pressure pulsations and hydrodynamic noise using MR material (metal ...
Yu. A. Burian +3 more
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A Study of Paul Thagard’s Conceptual Change Theory and its Results on Scientific Progress [PDF]
Introduction The Publication of Kuhn's influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important points in the history and philosophy of science studies and has raised many debates among philosophers and historians of science.
Ehsan Javadi Abhari +1 more
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Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Scientific Progress: From Normal Science to Post Normal Science [PDF]
The concept of progress has long been a central focus of scholarly discourse, with science and technology serving as key drivers for societal advancement and the continual improvement of quality of life.
Mohammad Hoseini Moghadam
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Roy Bhaskar on Scientific Progress and the Fallibility of Cognition: A Critique of Four Approaches [PDF]
So far, various approaches have been proposed to explain the progress of science. These approaches, which fall under a fourfold classification, are as follows: semantic, functional, epistemic, and noetic approaches. Each of these approaches, based on the
Maryam Poostforush, Mostafa Taqavi
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Replication, Uncertainty and Progress in Comparative Cognition
Replications are often taken to play both epistemic and demarcating roles in science: they provide evidence about the reliability of fields’ methods and, by extension, about which fields “count” as scientific.
Alexandria Boyle
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