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Finalization in Science: The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Wolf Schafer Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983 edition
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Finalization in Science: The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Wolf Schafer
These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic and controversial book.
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