The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation /
"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 moral...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.