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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... interdisciplinary in orientation, though I only became self-consciously ... scholars and students could readily place any subject they studied in ... scholars and students to the range of possibilities, to allow them to place their ...
... scientific theory (in chapter 3). These five questions served moreover to highlight the major strengths and weaknesses ... interdisciplinary scholarship integrates the varied researches of specialized scholars into a coherent whole. The ...
... interdisciplinary scholarship is contrasted with specialized scholarship, where particular communities of scholars employ a subset of scientific theories and methods to analyze a particular subset of phenomena. It is argued that both ...
... interdisciplinary research. The different theories and methods that dominate ... scholars come to recognize the value of looking at a wider range of theory ... scholars and citizens alike. In this book, openmindedness is urged with ...
... scholars. This book provides an easy structure for such a course(s). Chapter 8 discusses how the various classifications could aid student learning. Interdisciplinarians – scholars, that is, who are self-consciously interdisciplinary ...
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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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