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Steven Shapin

Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, is author of Leviathan and the Air-Pump.

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Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Virtue of Scientific Thinking

Scientists have discarded the moral authority that previously accrued to their vocation.

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