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Never Pure

Paperback • 2010 • English

Never Pure

By Steven Shapin

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About the book

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings.Shapin's essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science ...Show more

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9780801894213

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Never Pure

Format

Paperback

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