From Avocation to Vocation: An Ambivalence of Professional Science

Social Epistemology 34 (2):101-104 (2020)
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ABSTRACTThis article is an introduction to the current thematic issue dedicated to the seminal lecture by Max Weber ‘Science as a vocation’, published in 1919. Its centenary is worth celebrating be...

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10.1080/02691728.2019.1695009

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