Praxis Relevance in Science |
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Authors: | Sven Ove Hansson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 78, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Science is praxis relevant to the extent that it guides goal-directed action by telling us how to act in order to achieve
the goals. Investigations aiming at high praxis relevance are performed in various disciplines under names such as clinical
trials, evaluation research, intervention research and social experiments. In this contribution, the notion of (direct) praxis
relevance is delineated, and it is distinguished from related properties of science such as those of being applied and being
practically useful in a wider sense. Recommendations for the achievement of praxis relevance are offered in the form of five
principles: the prerogative of direct experiments, minimized theory-induced uncertainty, multiple approximations, causal chain
decomposition and successive improvements. |
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Keywords: | applied research clinical trials evaluation research praxis relevance social experiments |
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