Author: Steven Shapin

Since antiquity, "disembodied knowledge" has often been taken as synonomous with "objective truth". Yet we also have very specific mental images of...

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scient...

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 one obser...

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities an...