objectivitydistributed cognitionuncertaintyIn his text 'Wissenschaft als Beruf', Max Weber associates the understanding of science as a vocation with the scientist's ability to present the audience with 'inconvenient facts'. He argues that this presentation provides a 'full understanding of the facts'...
Max Weber (1864 – 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher and scientific management theorist. Next to his great work on modern sociology,Max Weberalso became famous with his scientific management approach onBureaucracyand hisBureaucratic Theoryand theSocial Action Theory. The Bureaucratic Theory is...
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts--I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. And for every party opinion there are facts that are extremely inconvenient, for my own opinion no less than for others. I believe th...