The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, c2008.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 468 p : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Preface. 1. Knowledge and virtue: the way we live now 2. From calling to job: nature, truth, method, and vocation from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries 3. The moral equivalence of the scientist: a history of the very idea 4. Who is the industrial scientist?: the view from the tower 5. Who is the industrial scientist?: the view from the managers 6. The scientist and the civic virtues: the moral life of organized science 7. The scientific entrepreneur: money, motives, and the place of virtue 8. Visions of the future: uncertainty and virtue in the world of high-tech and venture capital. The way we live now: epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index