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050	0	0	_aQ175.52.G7 _bS48 1994
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100	1		_aShapin, Steven. _918262
245	1	2	_aA social history of truth : _bcivility and science in seventeenth-century England / _cSteven Shapin.
260			_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _cc1994.
300			_axxxi, 483 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aScience and its conceptual foundations
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 419-465) and index.
505	0		_aNotes on Genres, Disciplines, and Conventions -- The Argument Summarized -- 1. The Great Civility: Trust, Truth, and Moral Order -- 2. "Who Was Then a Gentleman?" Integrity and Gentle Identity in Early Modern England -- 3. A Social History of Truth-Telling: Knowledge, Social Practice, and the Credibility of Gentlemen -- 4. Who Was Robert Boyle? The Creation and Presentation of an Experimental Identity -- 5. Epistemological Decorum: The Practical Management of Factual Testimony -- 6. Knowing about People and Knowing about Things: A Moral History of Scientific Credibility -- 7. Certainty and Civility: Mathematics and Boyle's Experimental Conversation -- 8. Invisible Technicians: Masters, Servants, and the Making of Experimental Knowledge -- Epilogue: The Way We Live Now.
520			_aHow 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 observational statement over another?
520	8		_aIn A Social History of Truth, a leading scholar addresses these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity.
520	8		_aThese codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world.
520	8		_aShapin explains how gentlemen-philosophers resolved varying testimony about such phemonema as comets, icebergs, and the pressure of water by bringing to bear practical social knowledge and standards of decorum. For instance, while "vulgar" divers reported they experienced no crushing pressure no matter how deep into the sea they dived, gentlemen-philosophers preferred the evidence of crushed pewter bottles.
520	8		_aShapin uses richly detailed historical narrative to make a powerful argument about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.
520	8		_aA Social History of Truth is a bold theoretical and historical exploration of the social conditions that make knowledge possible in any period and in any endeavor.
650		0	_aScience _xSocial aspects _zEngland _xHistory _y17th century. _918330
650		0	_aScience _xMoral and ethical aspects _zEngland _xHistory _y17th century. _918331
830		0	_aScience and its conceptual foundations. _99999
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