Steven (Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University) Shapin
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...
