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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... definition is explored in chapter 5 – I wondered if there might be some way to classify scientific methods and theories as well. The same goals would be served by such classifications: to alert scholars and students to the range of ...
... defined this elsewhere as an openness to the phenomena, theories, and/or methods of multiple disciplines. In this book interdisciplinary scholarship is contrasted with specialized scholarship, where particular communities of scholars ...
... definition allows comparison of how research proceeds in these domains. It would be undesirable to arbitrarily constrain the scope of analysis at the outset. For scholars who study science itself, the broad approach has the additional ...
... defined in more congenial terms: “types of theory”, for example, is much more suggestive of the goals of this book than is “types of science”. This first “cut” then – or exercise in disaggregation to use the jargon of the economist, or ...
... defined very broadly here, such that it would embrace the efforts of those who instead emphasize “interpretation ... definition of particular phenomena or (more commonly) explication of links among these. This classificatory enterprise ...
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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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Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, Practice Rick Szostak Náhled není k dispozici. - 2004 |