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Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2018
205 kr
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“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of early modern science. In this classic of science history, Shapin takes into account the culture – the …
Social History of Truth
Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
E-bok, 2011
976 kr
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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth , Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial …
Science Incarnate
Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
Av Christopher Lawrence, Steven Shapin
Inbunden, 1998
871 kr
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Since antiquity, "disembodied knowledge" has often been taken as synonomous with "objective truth". Yet we also have very specific mental images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds - the ascetic philosopher versus the hearty surgeon, for example. Does truth have anything to do with the …
Science Incarnate – Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
Av Christopher Lawrence, Steven Shapin m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
265 kr
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Since antiquity, "disembodied knowledge" has often been taken as synonomous with "objective truth". Yet we also have very specific mental images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds - the ascetic philosopher versus the hearty surgeon, for example. Does truth have anything to do with the …
Scientific Life
A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
E-bok, 2009
401 kr
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Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts—indeed, highly respected experts—authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power …
Social History of Truth
Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
Häftad, 1995
435 kr
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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern …
Scientific Life
A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
Inbunden, 2008
289 kr
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Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin's story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. From …
Scientific Life
A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
Häftad, 2010
204 kr
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Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin's story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. From …
Eating and Being
A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
Inbunden, 2024
307 kr
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What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet this has not …
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Av Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, …
Never Pure
Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
Häftad, 2010
442 kr
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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious …
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Av Simon Schaffer, Steven Shapin
E-bok, 2011
324 kr
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, …
Never Pure
Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
Inbunden, 2010
731 kr
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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious …
