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Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth Larry Laudan
Publisher: University of California Press

In other words, you've run up against the limits of our current knowledge; to make any further progress is going to take an innovation that's not yet a part of our scientific lexicon. The scientific enterprise is under threat, as political forces, inadequate funding, and a perverse incentive structure undermine its credibility and hinder its progress. Rehabilitation psychology and its immediate future: A problem of utilization of psychological knowledge. Image credit: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / Paul Preuss / Michael Crommie. Applying the scientific method to these challenges could be science's best on science's credibility cannot be ignored. Progress and problems: Towards a theory of scientific growth. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1977. The problems are rooted in the field's incentive structure – a winner-take-all system in which grants, prizes, and other rewards go to those who publish first. From intentions to action: A theory of planned behavior. Laudan L: Progress and its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth. The great unsolved problems of your time look like missing puzzle pieces, while the tools, equations and current theories begin to look like misshapen pieces that don't quite fit where they're supposed to. Longino HE: Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry.