Title The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation / Steven Shapin

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 468 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents Knowledge and virtue : the way we live now -- From calling to job : nature, truth, method, and vocation from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries -- The moral equivalence of the scientist : a history of the very idea -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the tower -- Who is the industrial scientist? : the view from the managers -- The scientist and the civic virtues : the moral life of organized science -- The scientific entrepreneur : money, motives, and the place of virtue -- Visions of the future : uncertainty and virtue in the world of high-tech and venture capital -- The way we live now : epilogue Summary "In this brilliant book Shapin takes us from celebration and criticism to description and understanding of one of the most important phenomena of the twentieth century-the creation of technical novelties. Richly paradoxical and entertaining, The Scientific Life contrasts the evidence-free moralizing of the cultural critics and early sociologists of science with the often insightful analyses of the despised industrial researchers. He shows that when adequately described the worlds of technoscientific research and venture capital are not the soulless, routinized, bureaucratic antithesis of the academic ideal, but ones where the necessary uncertainties of innovation are dealt with using face-time, trust, charisma, and even proverbs, things our narratives mistakenly consign to a pre-modern era. This is a book where the doers get their due and the contemplators their comeuppance; where the quotidian is richer than the transcendent."--David Edgerton, author of The Shock of the Old -- Book jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-439) and index Notes English Subject Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects Science -- Economic aspects Professional ethics. Science -- Social aspects. Science -- History. Science -- Moral and ethical aspects. Scientists -- Professional ethics Science -- history Science -- ethics Ethics, Professional Science -- economics Social Responsibility Virtues professional ethics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. Science -- Social aspects Science -- Moral and ethical aspects Science Professional ethics Science -- Economic aspects Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects Moralische Verantwortung Wissenschaftler Moralisches Handeln Wissenschaft Naturwissenschaftler Naturwissenschaften Wissenschafter -- Ethik. Ethik -- Wissenschafter. Wissenschaftler. Handlung. Ethik. Wissenschaft. Verantwortung. Wissenschaft -- Geschichte. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226750170 0226750175 9786612240034 6612240032

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