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  • EATING AND BEING
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    EATING AND BEING
    STEVEN SHAPIN
    What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.   Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet this has not always been the case. For a great span of the past—from antiquity through about...

    $611.56

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  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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    THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
    STEVEN SHAPIN
    “There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship.   “An excellent book.”—Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book...

    $349.39

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  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF TRUTH
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    A SOCIAL HISTORY OF TRUTH
    STEVEN SHAPIN
    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 observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosoph...

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  • THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE
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    THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE
    STEVEN SHAPIN
    Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts—indeed, highly respected experts—authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power and profit. But are they morally different from other people? The Scientific Life...

    $401.82

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