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Constants and scientific progress

Physiological Genomics, 1999
Scientists like constants (a personal favorite is Avogadro's number). It is no wonder, because not only does defining a constant represent a major scientific breakthrough, but as human beings we like things we can rely on, things that stay the same and that bring us consistency, stability, and a ...
V, Dzau, M, Frank, M, Reich, M J, Austin, R, Aebersold, A, Cowley, D, Housman, R, Mulligan, R, Rosenberg   +8 more
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Conceptions of scientific progress in scientific practice: an empirical study [PDF]

SynthÈse, 2020
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate over the nature of scientific progress in philosophy of science by taking a quantitative, corpus-based approach.
Moti Mizrahi, Mizrahi Moti
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Promoting scientific progress [PDF]

Philosophical Studies
In the philosophical debate about scientific progress, several authors appeal to a distinction between what constitutes scientific progress and what promotes it (e.g., Bird, 2008; Rowbottom, 2008; Dellsén, 2016).
Finnur Dellsén, Dellsén Finnur
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Scientific progress: normative, but aimless [PDF]

Asian Journal of Philosophy
Does science have any aim(s)? If not, does it follow that the debate about scientific progress is somehow misguided or problematically non-objective? These are two of the central questions posed in Rowbottom’s Scientific Progress.
Finnur Dellsén, Dellsén Finnur
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Is there scientific progress?

2023
Abstract Claudius Ptolemy and Galen of Pergamum made contributions to scientific and medical thought and practice that remained foundational for over 1,000 years. Ptolemy and Galen regarded themselves as innovators and as educators who were philosophically astute, building on the work of their predecessors and synthesizing information ...
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Predictive models of scientific progress

Information Storage and Retrieval, 1971
Abstract Progress in science is essentially determined by the stimulating effects of information accumulation and transfer. Hence dynamic characteristics of information flow together with the structural properties of the flow network in the society should be indicative of the major thrusts of science progress as well as of its rate of development ...
Pranas Zunde, Vladimir Slamecka
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Mathematics, Indispensability And Scientific Progress

Erkenntnis, 2001
Evaluation de l'argument platonicien de l'indispensabilite des objets mathematiques, fonde sur le naturalisme de Quine, a la lumiere de la conception nominaliste des theories scientifiques. Mesurant le role des mathematiques dans la decouverte et le developpement de la science, l'A. montre que les vertus philosophiques du nominalisme ne suffisent pas a
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Reconciling Protection with Scientific Progress

Hastings Center Report, 2005
In this issue, three articles and one of the essays contribute to an emerging discourse that challenges the core assumptions, concepts, and principles of research ethics. Some of these contributions are useful. We must be wary, however, that in refining and clarifying the concepts of research ethics we do not undermine the protections for human ...
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Physics, Philosophy, and Scientific Progress

Physics Today, 2005
In this 1950 speech to the International Congress of Surgeons in Cleveland, Ohio, Einstein argued that the 19th-century physicists’ simplistic view of nature, illusory as it was, gave biologists the confidence to treat life as a purely physical phenomenon.
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Scientific Progress Doubts and Hopes

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1983
Abstract Our scientific and technological world must be accepted, whatever the reservations guarding above all the preservation of a genuinely humane existence on this Earth. The most difficult problem facing humanity is the present population explosion which appears at present insoluble, as humanity shows itself unequal to this challenge.
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