Steven Shapin

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Steven Shapin is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scientific knowledge, and is credited with creating new approaches. He has won many awards, including the 2014 George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society for career contributions to the field.

Published Works

• A Social History of Truth
• The Scientific Revolution
• The Scientific Life
• The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England
• Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology
• History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions
• Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
• Placing the View from Nowhere: Historical and Sociological Problems in the Location of Science
• Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate
• The Place of Knowledge A Methodological Survey
Phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh
The sciences of subjectivity
“The Mind Is Its Own Place”: Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England
Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes
“A Scholar and a Gentleman”: The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England
Following Scientists Around
The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure of speech and its cultural uses
Prosopography as a Research Tool in History of Science: The British Scientific Community 1700–1900
Science, Nature and Control: Interpreting Mechanics' Institutes
Property, Patronage, and the Politics of Science: The Founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Why the public ought to understand science-in-the-making
Descartes the doctor: rationalism and its therapies
Understanding the Merton Thesis
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
The Audience for Science in Eighteenth Century Edinburgh
Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science
The Politics of Observation: Cerebral Anatomy and Social Interests in the Edinburgh Phrenology Disputes
Social uses of science
Head and Hand: Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing, 1770‐1850
Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
A taste of science: Making the subjective objective in the California wine world
Robert Boyle and Mathematics: Reality, Representation, and Experimental Practice
Personal development and intellectual biography: the case of Robert Boyle
The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History
‘You are what you eat’: historical changes in ideas about food and identity
Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-Century Dietetic Medicine
Talking History: Reflections on Discourse Analysis
Proverbial Economies
How to be Antiscientific
9. Expertise, Common Sense, and the Atkins Diet
The Image of the Man of Science
The Scientific Revolution
O HenryThe Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Henry Oldenburg , A. Rupert Hall , Marie Boas Hall , Eberhard Reichman
Essay Review: Licking Leibniz: Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Science
The Man of Science
Where is the Edge of Objectivity?
Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory life. The social construction of scientific facts, Beverly Hills, Calif., and London, Sage Publications, 1979. 8vo, pp. 272, illus., £1 1.25 (£5.50 paperback).
The art of persuasion
Signs of the Times
Why Was “Custom a Second Nature” in Early Modern Medicine?
Scientific Controversy as Moral/Political Discourse: From Restoration Science to Sociobiology
History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions
Malaise of British science
Lives after death
Vacation reading
The Rational and the Social. James Robert Brown
Letters to the Editor
Making Art / Discovering Science
Was Luigi Cornaro a Dietary Expert?
What is the History of Science … ?
Kuhn’s Structure: A Moment in Modern Naturalism
Julian Martin, Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 236. ISBN 0-521-382491. £35,00, $49.95.
DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE, Science, Space and Hermeneutics. Hettner-Lectures, 5. Heidelberg: Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, 2002. Pp. 116. ISBN 3-88570-505-2. No price given (paperback).
Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 vols. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2008. ISBN 978-0684313207. $995.00 (hardback).
Words of wisdom
Philosophers and Provincials: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1822 to 1844. A. D. Orange
Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology. The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society. Gerald L. Geison
Citation for Mary Douglas, 1994 Bernal Prize Recipient
A Course in the Social History of Science
On Bad History:
Science and the Public
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life
Scrutinizing Science
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority
The Experimental Philosophy and Its Institutions
REVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Reviews
Book reviews
Book reviews
Truth and Credibility in Science
Skewering myths about relations between science and religion
Science and Society - Science and Society 1600–1900. Ed. by Peter Mathias. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. viii + 166. £2.80.
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Conquest of Mind: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought. By David de Giustino. London: Croom Helm, 1975. Pp. viii + 248. £6.00.
The Turner Collection of the History of Mathematics at the University of Keele
General - Science, Technology and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Edited by Ina Spiegel-Rösing and Derek de Solla Price. London and Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977. Pp. xi + 607. £20.00.
Renaissance and Seventeenth Century - Witch Hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy: An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution, 1450–1750. By Brian Easlea. Brighton: Harvester, 1980. Pp. xii + 283.£25.00/£8.50 (paperback).
Alchemy and Parapsychology - Marsha P. Hannen, Margaret J. Osler, and Robert G. Weyant (eds.), Science, pseudo-science and society, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1980. Pp. x + 303. $7.50.
Wilda C. Anderson. Between the Library and the Laboratory: the Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 190. ISBN 0-8018-3229-2. £20.00, $22.50.
Tom Sorrell. Hobbes (The Arguments of the Philosophers, series ed. Ted Honderich). London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. xii + 163. ISBN 0-7100-9845-6. £14.95.
Peter Dear (ed.). The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8122-8185-3. No price given.
Anne Goldgar, Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680–1750. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 395. ISBN 0-300-05359-2. £25.
STEPHEN GAUKROGER, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+249. ISBN 0-521-80536-8. £14·95, $21·95 (paperback).
Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+384. ISBN 0-226-40954-6. $65.00, £46.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-226-40955-4. $27.50, £17.50 (paperback).
Charles Webster (editor), Biology, medicine and society 1840–1940, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. ix, 344, £22.50.
Pietro Corsi and Paul Weindling (editors), Information sources in the history of science and medicine, London, Butterworth, 1983, 8vo, pp. xvi, 531, £30.00.
Michael Hunter, Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society, Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiv, 382, illus., £45.00, $86.00.
Pioneer of Change
English Science Policy
Renown in theory
The journey to Enlightenment
Which science book should the next US president read?
Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance.Donald MacKenzie
The Social Construction of What? By Ian Hacking. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. x+261. $16.95 (paper).
Conference Reports
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848. Maxine Berg
Science and Society in Restoration England. Michael Hunter
Symposium on History of Science Today: Tradition and Change Uppsala, Sweden, 18-19 November 1982
The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment. R. H. Campbell , Andrew S. Skinner
The Figural and the Literal: Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy, 1630-1800. Andrew E. Benjamin , Geoffrey N. Cantor , John R. R. Christie
The Library of Robert Hooke: The Scientific Book Trade of Restoration England. Leona Rostenberg
Scientific Growth: Essays on the Social Organization and Ethos of Science. Joseph Ben-David , Gad Freudenthal
The Social Dimensions of Science. Ernan McMullin
Science and Anti-Science. Gerald Holton
Final Comment: Authors’ Response
Breakfast at Buck’s
Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620. By Lesley B. Cormack (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997) 281 pp. $68.00 cloth $23.95 paper
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England. By Paul A. Elliott (London, I. B. Tauris, 2010) 358 pp. $99.00
Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796–1874 by Kevin Donnelly
Response to Pinnick
Weber’s Science as a Vocation: A moment in the history of “is” and “ought”
The Sciences of Subjectivity
A mudança nos gostos: que gosto as coisas tinham no começo da era moderna e que gosto têm agora
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change.
Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism.
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.
The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope.
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England.
The Scientific Revolution.
Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War.
The Scientific Revolution
Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England.
Artisan to Graduate: Essays to Commemorate the Foundation in 1824 of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, Now in 1974 the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
A Social History of Truth
Cadavres exquis
Le camembert, un big mac à la française
Comment le thé a transformé l’Angleterre
« Homo Deus », vraiment ?
1 - Une pompe de circonstance. La technologie littéraire de Boyle
3 - La politique des cerveaux : la querelle phrénologique au XIX^e siècle à Édimbourg
The Polity of Science
Science and the Public
'Achievement' and the macro-sociology of culture
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