Overview :"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim,... Read More
Overview :What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowled... Read More
Overview :Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They... Read More
Overview :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 on... Read More
Overview :Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century... Read More
Overview :Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capaci... Read More