Reed College (B.A., 1966) University of Wisconsin (M.A., 1967) University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1971)
Known for
Research on the history and sociology of science
Scientific career
Institutions
University of Edinburgh University of California, San Diego Harvard University
Steven Shapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.[2] He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scientific knowledge,[3] and is credited with creating new approaches.[4] He has won many awards, including the 2014 George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society for career contributions to the field.[5]
^"Curriculum Vitae, Steven Shapin" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
^"Steven Shapin Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science". Harvard University. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
^Thompson, Charis (2005). Making Parents: the ontological choreography of reproductive technologies. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780262201568. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
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StevenShapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science...
Modern Science (2015). A hostile review in the Wall Street Journal by StevenShapin attracted a number of commentaries, a response by Weinberg, and an exchange...
Jonathan Swift's satire of the impractical research of the Royal Society Shapin, Steven (2012). "The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure of speech and its...
denied the very possibility of vacuum existence. Historians of science StevenShapin and Simon Schaffer, in their 1985 book Leviathan and the Air-Pump, describe...
essay on the unification of the science of man. New York: G. Braziller. Shapin, Steven (1995). "Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge" (PDF)...
Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-09745-2. Barry Barnes and StevenShapin, "Natural order: historical studies of scientific culture", Sage, 1979...
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life with StevenShapin. In addition to his work at Cambridge, he has been a presenter on the...
contributions from authors such as Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont, Steven Weinberg and StevenShapin. Other important publications related to the science wars...
Caradonna, 634–36. Caradonna, 653–54. "Royal Charters". royalsociety.org. StevenShapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century...
harmless levels. According to the historian and sociologist of science StevenShapin: From the pre-Socratics through the Hippocratic and Galenic corpus,...
development of the character of scientists and the predecessors, see: StevenShapin (2008). The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation...
Hegemony: Transnational Explorations". Social Forces. 67: 821–822. StevenShapin and Christopher Martyn, "How to live forever: lessons of history", British...
wrote that the book "presents a public life more than a private one." StevenShapin wrote that the book is "a loose and multiply digressive collection of...
Sapp George Sarton (1884–1956) Simon Schaffer Howard Segal (1948–2020) StevenShapin Wolfgang Schivelbusch Charles Singer (1876–1960) Merritt Roe Smith Stephen...
161W. doi:10.1126/science.134.3473.161. JSTOR 1708292. PMID 17818712. StevenShapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. Chicago:...
BBC – Walking With Beasts – Megatherium London Review of Books – Bare Bones – StevenShapin "Megatherium" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911....
Sociologists working within this new field, including Harry Collins and StevenShapin, used Kuhn's emphasis on the role of non-evidential community factors...
Haven, 1993. Porter, R. 'Creation and Credence', in Barry Barnes and StevenShapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Sage...
according to StevenShapin (Shapin 1994:31), it is a set of presuppositions about the subject, the object, and the nature of their relations. Shapin, S. 1994...
Philosophy of Nature. Dordrecht: Springer 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-5629-1. StevenShapin, "A Theorist of (Not Quite) Everything" (review of David Cahan, Helmholtz:...
Abdolkarim Soroush, Sadik Al-Azm and Fatema Mernissi 2005 Simon Schaffer and StevenShapin 2006 Pierre Bernard 2007 Péter Forgács 2008 Ian Buruma 2009 Antonio...
psychosociologist, writer William H. Sewell, American sociologist StevenShapin, American sociologist Jeremy J. Shapiro, American sociologist Ali Shariati...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280273-6. OCLC 80331733. StevenShapin, "Chairman of the Bored", Harvard Magazine, January–February 2008 Charlie...
Herbert Spencer p. 537 Duncan, Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer p. 497 StevenShapin (13 August 2007). "Man with a plan". newyorker.com. Archived from the...
Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), p. 270 and p. 346. StevenShapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985), pp. 71-2. Markku...
30(1): 113–129. STS Wiki WTMC Wiki Historical sociologist Simon Schaffer is interviewed on SSK Historical sociologist StevenShapin is interviewed on SSK...
Amir's Sugar Crash". Knickerbockerglory.tv. Retrieved 25 January 2022. StevenShapin, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by...
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