Never Pure - Shapin, Steven
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Argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. This title features essays that include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order.
This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.

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Argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. This title features essays that include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order.
This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.
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Autorenporträt
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and his books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Revolution. He has written for the New Yorker and writes regularly for the London Review of Books.