A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century EnglandUniversity of Chicago Press, 18 нояб. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 512 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 solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, 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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Trust Truth and Moral Order | 3 |
Chapter Two Who Was Then a Gentleman? Integrity and Gentle Identity in Early Modern England | 42 |
Knowledge Social Practice and the Credibility of Gentlemen | 65 |
Chapter Four Who Was Robert Boyle? The Creation and Presentation of an Experimental Identity | 126 |
The Practical Management of Factual Testimony | 193 |
A Moral History of Scientific Credibility | 243 |
Mathematics and Boyles Experimental Conversation | 310 |
Masters Servants and the Making of Experimental Knowledge | 355 |
The Way We Live Now | 409 |
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