Title
- Science And Its Conceptual Foundations
Attribution
Steven ShapinPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press1995Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Q175.52.G7 S48 1995 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Published 1994; Paperback edition 1995"–T.p. verso
Contents
- The great civility : trust, truth, and moral order
- "Who was then a gentleman?" : integrity and gentle identity in early modern England
- A social history of truth-telling : knowledge, social practice, and the credibility of gentlemen
- Who was Robert Boyle? : the creation and presentation of an experimental identity
- Epistemological decorum : the practical management of factual testimony
- Knowing about people and knowing about things : a moral history of scientific credibility - - Certainty and civility : mathematics and Boyle’s experimental conversation
- Invisible technicians : masters, servants, and the making of experimental knowledge
- Epilogue : the way we live now
ISBN
- 0226750191
- 0226750183
- 9780226750194
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