A Social History of Truth (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
512
Utgivningsdatum
1995-11-01
Upplaga
2nd ed.
Utmärkelser
Winner of American Sociological Association Science, Knowledge & Technology Section Robert K. Merton Award 1998
Förlag
University of Chicago Press
Illustrationer
12 halftones, 2 line drawings
Dimensioner
230 x 155 x 33 mm
Vikt
800 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780226750194

A Social History of Truth

Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

av Steven Shapin
Häftad,  Engelska, 1995-11-01
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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 science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in 17th-century England. The author paints a picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honour, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.
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