Social Aspects of Scientific Method in Industrial Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10705807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian B Littauer (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 93-100 |
| Publication date | 1954-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/287331 |
| OpenAlex | W2068954792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
In moments of daring, some physical scientists consider problems of social inquiry, hoping naively that the methods of physical inquiry will provide them with special insight. In my own work on problems of industrial production where I am searching for “practical” means for optimizing production in some socially satisfactory sense, I find that the physical scientist cannot escape the responsibility for social inquiry. So far as I can understand the nature of this work, it requires for its fruitful pursuit a methodology which leans heavily on the concepts of statistical control of Shewhart (1, 2, 3), of cybernetics of Wiener (4, 5) and of experimentalism of Singer (6, 7, 8, 9), Churchman (10, 11) and Ackoff (11)
Control (management) · Cybernetics · Epistemology · Experimentalism · Management science · Production (economics) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |