Critical rationalism and engineering: methodology.
Engineering deals with different problem situations than science, and theories in engineering are different to theories in science. So, the growth of knowledge in engineering is also different to that in science. Nonetheless, methodological issues in engineering epistemology can be explored by adapt...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 1; pp. 337 - 363 |
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