Finalization in science
Subtitle: the social orientation of scientific progress
By: Gernot Böhme ... [et al.] ; edited by Wolf Schäfer ; translated by Pete Burgess.
Contributors: Böhme, Gernot.; Schäfer, Wolf, 1942-
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;; v. 77
Publisher: D. Reidel; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, U.S.A; Hingham, MA
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects.; Research -- Social aspects.; Science.; Research.; Sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Translation of: Die Gesellschaftliche Orientierung des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts; pt. 3 added for English ed.
Table of contents: title: Authors' introduction / Gernot Böhme ... et al.; title: Agricultural chemistry / Wolfgang Krohn and Wolf Schäfer; title: Autonomization and finalization / Gernot Böhme; title: Cancer research / Rainer Hohlfeld; title: Finalization revisited / Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Rainer Hohlfeld; title: The scientification of technology / Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Wolfgang Krohn; title: Normative finalization / Wolf Schäfer; title: Science in a crisis of legitimation / Wolfgang van den Daele and Wolfgang Krohn; title: Towards a social science of nature / Gernot Böhme and Wolf Schäfer.