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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
The Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
Author: Steven Shapin
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 the early twentieth-century origins of co...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226750255
ISBN-10: 0226750256
Publication Date: 9/15/2010
Pages: 486
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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