Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, PracticeSpringer Science & Business Media, 3. 11. 2007 - Počet stran: 288 Classification is the essential first step in science. The study of science, as well as the practice of science, will thus benefit from a detailed classification of different types of science. In this book, science - defined broadly to include the social sciences and humanities - is first unpacked into its constituent elements: the phenomena studied, the data used, the theories employed, the methods applied, and the practices of scientists. These five elements are then classified in turn. Notably, the classifications of both theory types and methods allow the key strengths and weaknesses of different theories and methods to be readily discerned and compared. Connections across classifications are explored: should certain theories or phenomena be investigated only with certain methods? What is the proper function and form of scientific paradigms? Are certain common errors and biases in scientific practice associated with particular phenomena, data, theories, or methods? The classifications point to several ways of improving both specialized and interdisciplinary research and teaching, and especially of enhancing communication across communities of scholars. The classifications also support a superior system of document classification that would allow searches by theory and method used as well as causal links investigated. |
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... 5W questions upon other aspects of science. Indeed, asked of science itself the 5W questions suggest that the scientific enterprise is best understood in terms of phenomena, data, theory, method, and practice (in chapter 1). The 5W ...
... Questions of whether some types of science are better than others, or whether different types of science are best suited to different purposes, can hardly be asked intelligibly without first ... 5W questions are interrelated. He 2 Chapter 1.
... 5W questions. That is, at each stage of the investigation the five questions – Who, What, Where, When, and Why – are asked. One key goal of a classificatory system is that it helps users to recall diverse classes and where they fit ...
... 5W questions, scientists and journalists often ask 'How?' Indeed, this is a particularly important scientific question. Philosophers, though, often distinguish scientific approaches as to whether they are focussed on 'Why?' Or 'How ...
... 5W questions have ignored important aspects of science will help to establish that the 5W approach is exhaustive, at least when classifying science. Of course, in establishing exhaustiveness in this way, the “problem of induction ...
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Classifying Phenomena and Data | 23 |
Classifying Theory | 51 |
Classifying Method | 99 |
Classifying Practice | 155 |
Drawing Connections Across | 199 |
Classifying Scientific Documents | 217 |
Concluding Remarks | 239 |
References | 269 |
Index 279 | 278 |
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