According to this account, progress is not linear and gradual; it is punctuated by moments of profound conceptual change and innovation. There are periods of relative calm — what Kuhn …
Abstract Darrell Rowbottom have argued for two competing accounts of progress. According to Bird, sc entific progress consists in the accumulation of scientific knowledge. Rowbottom on …
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Today, NSF-funded research continues to advance the nation’s prosperity, welfare and leadership. As these pages reflect, outcomes from basic research across multiple scientific …
The “nature of theoretical progress” trait includes the definition of the goals of science, the role of experiments and theories, how scientists make progress and how they decide between …
To what extent is science inevitably politicized, both within countries and between them, and how might that impact realization of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress?
Against the backdrop of various philosophical accounts, this Comment argues for the need of a human rights approach to scientific progress, which requires us to rethink how we view …