With a new introduction by the author (emeritus, sociology, Columbia U., New York City), as well as the prefaces from the first edition in 1938 and a 1970 reprint, this classic work established the field of the sociology of science. The focus of the study is the role of Puritanism in unintentionally providing social and cultural support for newly emerging science in 17th-centur...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by the author (emeritus, sociology, Columbia U., New York City), as well as the prefaces from the first edition in 1938 and a 1970 reprint, this classic work established the field of the sociology of science. The focus of the study is the role of Puritanism in unintentionally providing social and cultural support for newly emerging science in 17th-centur...(展开全部)

史蒂文.夏平,当代著名的英国科学史家和科学知识社会学家,曾长期在爱丁堡大学科学研究部任职,目前为圣地亚哥加州大学社会学和元科学研究教授。

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? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in 17th-century England. The au...(展开全部)

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? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in 17th-century England. The au...(展开全部)

潘吉星，我国著名科学技术史专家，早在青年时代，他在中国科学技术史领域的研究，就获得了李约瑟博士的赞誉。目前，潘吉星先生任中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员、国家古籍整理出版规划小组成员、国际科学史研究院通讯院士、中国科技大学研究生院兼职导师等职；历任英国剑桥大学罗宾逊学院客座研究员、美国宾夕法尼亚大学文理学院客座教授、日本国京都大学人文科学研究所客座教授及同志社大学新岛讲座教授。潘吉星先生用中外文发表学术专著17部、论文170余篇，如《中国造纸技术史稿》、《天工开物校注与研究》、《中外科学之交流》、《中国造纸印刷技术史》等，主编《李约瑟文集》。曾获中国图书荣誉奖1项、中国科学史优秀图书一等奖3项、国家首届古籍整理图书二等奖1项、中国优秀社会科学图书二等奖1项，以及各种省部级奖近10项。

Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today’s culture and society. Discusses current STS topics, research tools, and theories Tackles some of the most urgent issues in current STS studies, including power and culture, race, gender, co...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the place of science in democratic societies. In this successor to his pioneering "Science, Truth, and Democracy", renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher explores the challenges of integrating science, the most successful knowledge-generating system of all time, with the problems of democracy. Kitcher considers a variety of exa...(展开全部)