Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic

Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell (April 08, ) [Frederick Grinnell] on leondumoulin.nl
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Frederick Grinnell - - Science and Engineering Ethics 19 3: Machan - - Ashgate. Objectivity, Rationality, and Scientific Change. Dudley Shapere - - PSA: Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier. Can Scientists Be Objective? Malcolm Williams - - Social Epistemology 20 2: Objectivity in Logic and Nature. Jukola - - Foundations of Science 21 1: In Defence of Objectivity. To quote the Guardian's reviewer: This is an insider's view of science. You thought science was all about dispassion, objectivity, open-minded logic? Only you wouldn't necessarily know that from this book.

I feel like this book made it on to the Royal Society's shortlist as an antidote to the fluffy end of pop sci exemplified by Chown.

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It is a somber and serious review of how science is done - not tales of laboratory thrills and spills, but the process of basic research; of how findings trigger a theory are formulated into a paper is released into the world is cited or now and gains integrity becomes accepted fact until replaced by etcetera etcetera. One of Grinnell's central arguments - and one of the more interesting - is that individually, scientists are not necessarily objective - that objectivity is born of the collective.

He quotes Annette Baier's commons of the mind - "We reason together, challenge, revise, and complete each other reasoning and each other's conceptions of reason" - and concludes: Rather, objectivity is a function of the community. Everyday practice of science is neither truth nor power, but rather balanced on a contextual ledge in between. A rousing call to arms to defend the sweet honour of science it is not. But a thoughtful and - dreaded word - worthy account of how scientific research is funded and conducted, and scientific knowledge is dispersed and built upon it is.

Everyday Practice of Science

I'm unlikely to recommend this to anyone unless they're specifically interested in learning about models that explain how research turns into knowledge. Jan 27, Joshua Stein rated it it was ok Shelves: This book is sort of weird and unfortunate. But the book devolves quickly into a personal reflection on Grinnell's own attempts to reconcile religion and science. This is an interesting topic, but one that is sufficiently intellectually complicated that the wr This book is sort of weird and unfortunate. This is an interesting topic, but one that is sufficiently intellectually complicated that the writing style doesn't leave us with much in the way of substance.

On the whole, this book misses two major opportunities, both to talk about science as something in the world, and not simply theoretical and idealized, and to seriously introspect on religion and science. Grinnell likely has some interesting thoughts on both these subjects, from reading the book, but it lacks depth, partly because he goes the "general audience" route and does dumb down some portions of the material significantly. Anyway, I wouldn't likely recommend the book, because even with the strong introduction to the social sciences, I wouldn't want to foist the entire superficial discussion of religion and science at the end on someone should they feel obligated to read the whole thing.

There are better places to look for introductory materials in the sociology of scientific knowledge. Oct 28, George Sullivan-davis rated it it was amazing. I read this book last summer to help me participate on one of the St.

Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic

Vincent Institutional Review Boards as a Non-scientific member. It's one of the many that I come back to review every few months. Oct 25, Greg Collver rated it liked it.

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