The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation

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

"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...

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Main Author: Shapin, Steven
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1900-2008.
Scientists > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science > Economic aspects.
Professional ethics.
Science > Social aspects.
Science > History.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Scientists > Professional ethics.
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.
History
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Table of 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.

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