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How Knowledge Grows
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Author : Chris Haufe
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
How Knowledge Grows written by Chris Haufe and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Science categories.
An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin’s evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cognitive and moral failings as well as all of the factors impinging on human life, the historical development of scientific knowledge has trended toward an increasingly accurate picture of an increasing number of phenomena. Taking a fresh look at Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in How Knowledge Grows Chris Haufe uses evolutionary theory to explain both why scientific practice develops the way it does and how scientific knowledge expands. This evolutionary model, claims Haufe, helps to explain what is epistemically special about scientific knowledge: its tendency to grow in both depth and breadth. Kuhn showed how intellectual communities achieve consensus in part by discriminating against ideas that differ from their own and isolating themselves intellectually from other fields of inquiry and broader social concerns. These same characteristics, says Haufe, determine a biological population’s degree of susceptibility to modification by natural selection. He argues that scientific knowledge grows, even across generations of variable groups of scientists, precisely because its development is governed by Darwinian evolution. Indeed, he supports the claim that this susceptibility to modification through natural selection helps to explain the epistemic power of certain branches of modern science. In updating and expanding the evolutionary approach to scientific knowledge, Haufe provides a model for thinking about science that acknowledges the historical contingency of scientific thought while showing why we nevertheless should trust the results of scientific research when it is the product of certain kinds of scientific communities.
How Knowledge Grows
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Author : Chris Haufe
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
How Knowledge Grows written by Chris Haufe and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Science categories.
An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin’s evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cognitive and moral failings as well as all of the factors impinging on human life, the historical development of scientific knowledge has trended toward an increasingly accurate picture of an increasing number of phenomena. Taking a fresh look at Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in How Knowledge Grows Chris Haufe uses evolutionary theory to explain both why scientific practice develops the way it does and how scientific knowledge expands. This evolutionary model, claims Haufe, helps to explain what is epistemically special about scientific knowledge: its tendency to grow in both depth and breadth. Kuhn showed how intellectual communities achieve consensus in part by discriminating against ideas that differ from their own and isolating themselves intellectually from other fields of inquiry and broader social concerns. These same characteristics, says Haufe, determine a biological population’s degree of susceptibility to modification by natural selection. He argues that scientific knowledge grows, even across generations of variable groups of scientists, precisely because its development is governed by Darwinian evolution. Indeed, he supports the claim that this susceptibility to modification through natural selection helps to explain the epistemic power of certain branches of modern science. In updating and expanding the evolutionary approach to scientific knowledge, Haufe provides a model for thinking about science that acknowledges the historical contingency of scientific thought while showing why we nevertheless should trust the results of scientific research when it is the product of certain kinds of scientific communities.
The Knowledge Growth Regime
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Author : Cristiano Antonelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-03-16
The Knowledge Growth Regime written by Cristiano Antonelli and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-16 with Business & Economics categories.
‘This important new book provides a penetrating, novel analysis of the key role played by knowledge when viewed through the lens of Schumpeterian economics. It is loaded with important insights that highlight the primacy of knowledge and innovation to unleash economic growth.’ —David B. Audretsch, Indiana University Bloomington, USA This book combines the tools elaborated by the economics of knowledge and the legacy of Joseph Schumpeter to explore the emergence of the new knowledge economy and the shift away from the manufacturing industries. Antonelli analyzes the characteristics of the innovation process as a creative response based upon the accumulation, generation and exploitation of knowledge. He highlights the new structure of advanced economies, where knowledge is at the same time the prime input and output. With special attention to the limits of the new knowledge growth regime, raised by the role of finance, income distribution and intellectual property rights, this Palgrave Pivot recommends appropriate economic policies based upon an Open Technology approach.
Reproducibility And Replicability In Science
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2019-10-20
Reproducibility And Replicability In Science written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-20 with Science categories.
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails to independently confirm the computations or results of a previous study, some fear that it may be a symptom of a lack of rigor in science, while others argue that such an observed inconsistency can be an important precursor to new discovery. Concerns about reproducibility and replicability have been expressed in both scientific and popular media. As these concerns came to light, Congress requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to assess the extent of issues related to reproducibility and replicability and to offer recommendations for improving rigor and transparency in scientific research. Reproducibility and Replicability in Science defines reproducibility and replicability and examines the factors that may lead to non-reproducibility and non-replicability in research. Unlike the typical expectation of reproducibility between two computations, expectations about replicability are more nuanced, and in some cases a lack of replicability can aid the process of scientific discovery. This report provides recommendations to researchers, academic institutions, journals, and funders on steps they can take to improve reproducibility and replicability in science.
The Structure And Growth Of Scientific Knowledge
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Author : G. L. Pandit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Structure And Growth Of Scientific Knowledge written by G. L. Pandit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Our Knowledge Of The Growth Of Knowledge Routledge Revivals
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Author : Peter Munz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
Our Knowledge Of The Growth Of Knowledge Routledge Revivals written by Peter Munz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with Philosophy categories.
Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper’s evolutionary epistemology – conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments. Professor Munz examines and rejects the Wittgensteinian position. Instead, Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge, first published in 1985, elaborates the potentially fruitful link between Popper’s critical rationalism and Neo-Darwinism. Read in the light of the latter, Popper’s philosophy leads to the transformation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism into ‘Hypothetical Realism’, whilst the emphasis on the biological orientation of Popper’s thought helps to illumine some difficulties in Popper’s ‘falsificationism’.
The Half Life Of Facts
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Author : Samuel Arbesman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-09-27
The Half Life Of Facts written by Samuel Arbesman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives. He takes us through a wide variety of fields, including those that change quickly, over the course of a few years, or over the span of centuries.
How Expanding The Entire Volume Of Knowledge Influences On Incrementing Individual Knowledge
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Author : Duli Pllana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-03
How Expanding The Entire Volume Of Knowledge Influences On Incrementing Individual Knowledge written by Duli Pllana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-03 with categories.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Biology - Neurobiology, grade: 2.5, language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the question how you can increment individual knowledge. In general, people chase knowledge tending to know the entire knowledge; nevertheless, they set one step forward and two steps backward. The development of knowledge grows exponentially; recently knowledge doubles every year - very soon is predict it is going to double every twelve hours. There are many researchers who deals with body volume of knowledge, and what percentage of entire knowledge are able to know specialist researchers. In a broad-spectrum people are eager to know the development of knowledge; likewise, how much they know in their favorite field or occupation; as a result, they test their knowledge in different ways. Usually, students or test takers are assessed by others on the test. Nonetheless, majority of test takers check their knowledge on their own before they take any test. Another way assessing knowledge is by getting feedback from others. The key question remains, do test takers/learners get the accurate assessment on their knowledge? Most likely the evaluation might be inaccurate on inspecting the knowledge in a specific field. Test givers are subjective in their decisions, teachers are too generous with giving a positive feedback, and assessing your own work is biased. Assessing your own knowledge is impossible because people inflate their evaluation or deflate. Furthermore, the paper deals with the question are children smarter than parents. The outcome will reveal the evidence of correlation between the entire and individual knowledge. Above all, Individual knowledge is relative since it depends on the development of entire knowledge.
The Knowledge Society
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Author : Gernot Böhme
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Knowledge Society written by Gernot Böhme and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany. The conference in Darmstadt saw a larger number of contribu tions presented than could be accommodated in this edition of the Sociol ogy of the Sciences Yearbook. However, all contributions were important and affected those published in this collection. We are therefore grateful to all participants of the Darmstadt conference for their presentations and for their intense, useful as well as thoughtful discussion of all papers. Those chosen for publication in the Yearbook and those undoubtedly to be published elsewhere have all benefitted considerably from our discussions in Darmstadt which also included a number of the members of the edito rial board of the Yearbook. In addition, we are pleased that the authors were able to read and comment further on each other's papers prior to publication. As is the case in every endeavor of this kind, we have incurred many debts and are only able to acknowledge these at this point publicly while expressing our sincere thanks and appreciation for all the intellectual sup port and the considerable labor invested by a number of persons in the realization of the collection.
Conjectures And Refutations
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Author : Sir Karl Raimund Popper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Conjectures And Refutations written by Sir Karl Raimund Popper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.