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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... reflect some theoretical order. This would aid efforts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different types of science, and also the potential for integrating across different types of science – as the periodic table guides ...
... reflect impossibility or merely a failure in scientific practice.) By analyzing the similarities and differences across classes, the artificial grouping of disparate cases or separation of similar cases can be avoided. Typologies tend ...
... reflect an external reality. Yet scientists cannot be sure that natural classes reflect reality. As Root notes, the argument that “vertebrates” is a useful class of animals rests on scientific consensus that this is a more useful ...
... reflect an empirical reality. As Bailey notes, the static nature of most classification systems can be a drawback for some uses. As society evolves, the classification system may need to change as well.20 It is of course possible that ...
... reflect both induction – from studying how science works in practice – and deduction – the search for logical classes (Kent, 48-51). Both induction and deduction will be employed in what follows. Peirce recognized a potential conflict ...
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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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