Steven Shapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science...
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Modern Science (2015). A hostile review in the Wall Street Journal by Steven Shapin attracted a number of commentaries, a response by Weinberg, and an exchange...
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Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (published 1985) is a book by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer. It examines the debate between Robert Boyle and...
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Jonathan Swift's satire of the impractical research of the Royal Society Shapin, Steven (2012). "The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure of speech and its...
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essay on the unification of the science of man. New York: G. Braziller. Shapin, Steven (1995). "Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge" (PDF)...
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denied the very possibility of vacuum existence. Historians of science Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, in their 1985 book Leviathan and the Air-Pump, describe...
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161W. doi:10.1126/science.134.3473.161. JSTOR 1708292. PMID 17818712. Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. Chicago:...
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Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-09745-2. Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin, "Natural order: historical studies of scientific culture", Sage, 1979...
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harmless levels. According to the historian and sociologist of science Steven Shapin: From the pre-Socratics through the Hippocratic and Galenic corpus,...
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life with Steven Shapin. In addition to his work at Cambridge, he has been a presenter on the...
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contributions from authors such as Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont, Steven Weinberg and Steven Shapin. Other important publications related to the science wars...
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Caradonna, 634–36. Caradonna, 653–54. "Royal Charters". royalsociety.org. Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century...
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development of the character of scientists and the predecessors, see: Steven Shapin (2008). The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation...
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wrote that the book "presents a public life more than a private one." Steven Shapin wrote that the book is "a loose and multiply digressive collection of...
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Sapp George Sarton (1884–1956) Simon Schaffer Howard Segal (1948–2020) Steven Shapin Wolfgang Schivelbusch Charles Singer (1876–1960) Merritt Roe Smith Stephen...
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Sociologists working within this new field, including Harry Collins and Steven Shapin, used Kuhn's emphasis on the role of non-evidential community factors...
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BBC – Walking With Beasts – Megatherium London Review of Books – Bare Bones – Steven Shapin "Megatherium" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911....
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Haven, 1993. Porter, R. 'Creation and Credence', in Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Sage...
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Hegemony: Transnational Explorations". Social Forces. 67: 821–822. Steven Shapin and Christopher Martyn, "How to live forever: lessons of history", British...
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Abdolkarim Soroush, Sadik Al-Azm and Fatema Mernissi 2005 Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin 2006 Pierre Bernard 2007 Péter Forgács 2008 Ian Buruma 2009 Antonio...
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Philosophy of Nature. Dordrecht: Springer 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-5629-1. Steven Shapin, "A Theorist of (Not Quite) Everything" (review of David Cahan, Helmholtz:...
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London; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, 1977. ISBN 978-1138972964 with Steven Shapin (ed.), Natural order: historical studies of scientific culture, Beverly...
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according to Steven Shapin (Shapin 1994:31), it is a set of presuppositions about the subject, the object, and the nature of their relations. Shapin, S. 1994...
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30(1): 113–129. STS Wiki WTMC Wiki Historical sociologist Simon Schaffer is interviewed on SSK Historical sociologist Steven Shapin is interviewed on SSK...
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psychosociologist, writer William H. Sewell, American sociologist Steven Shapin, American sociologist Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist Ali Shariati...
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Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280273-6. OCLC 80331733. Steven Shapin, "Chairman of the Bored", Harvard Magazine, January–February 2008 Charlie...
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University of Chicago Press in 1999, with introductions by John Maddox and Steven Shapin. Describing the book as "a model of lucidity," Maddox stated that "Greenberg's...
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Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), p. 270 and p. 346. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985), pp. 71-2. Markku...
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Herbert Spencer p. 537 Duncan, Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer p. 497 Steven Shapin (13 August 2007). "Man with a plan". newyorker.com. Archived from the...
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proposing an essential instability of historical lives. In the words of Steven Shapin, metabiography stresses “that shifting biographical traditions make...
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