wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
ISBN: 9780226750255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues" more" central to its practice than ever before, and he also... Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scient... |
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100,55 zł |
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
ISBN: 9780691178165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge... Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century... |
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98,57 zł |
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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
ISBN: 9780226750248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 and profit. But are they morally different from other people? "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.
Conventional wisdom has long held that scientists are neither better nor... Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are exper...
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142,88 zł |
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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Socie
ISBN: 9780801894213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings. Shapin's essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of... Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities an... |
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161,41 zł |
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The Scientific Revolution
ISBN: 9780226398341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "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 the origins of the modern scientific world view. "Shapin's treatise on the currents that engendered modern science is a combination of history and philosophy of science for the interested and educated layperson".--"Publishers Weekly". 30 photos.
"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it". With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Sh...
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84,67 zł |
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780226750194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically... 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 observat...
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190,51 zł |