Science in the Context of Application

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carrier, Martin (Editor), Nordmann, Alfred (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 274
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Sociology.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.; Sociology, general.

We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated...