出版社: Princeton University Press
副标题: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
出版年: 2017-11-14
页数: 448
定价: USD 22.95
装帧: Paperback
丛书: Princeton Classics
ISBN: 9780691178165
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at s...
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild.
The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens—facts, interpretations, experiment, truth—were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists’ divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Simon Schaffer is professor of history of science at the University of Cambridge.
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1 有用 廖芜 2018-09-21 11:19:41
STS founding text之一。回溯到17世纪闻讯究竟“experimental approach”是如何形成的?并在其推行者Boyle和“传统”式的natural philosopher 霍布斯的对抗中审视社会,尤其是政治纷争是如何潜入双方所谓客观公正的科学意见分歧的。结尾作者极为大胆的留下最后一句话:Hobbes is right!我们是否可以做出这样的总结见仁见智,但如果我们已经将科... STS founding text之一。回溯到17世纪闻讯究竟“experimental approach”是如何形成的?并在其推行者Boyle和“传统”式的natural philosopher 霍布斯的对抗中审视社会,尤其是政治纷争是如何潜入双方所谓客观公正的科学意见分歧的。结尾作者极为大胆的留下最后一句话:Hobbes is right!我们是否可以做出这样的总结见仁见智,但如果我们已经将科学解构至此,是不是也要重新想想究竟什么是我们所说的“政治”,推荐Hacking和Bruno Latour的书评 (展开)
1 有用 Shawrobin 2020-08-29 23:49:13
新版的intro实在是太精彩了!
0 有用 שרון 2022-09-27 07:43:23 美国
几个点1) emergence of experiment as the collective witnessing 2) asymmetrical treatment that contrasts Boyle and Hobbes 3) the space for experiment that idealizes the societal structure 4) the boundary o... 几个点1) emergence of experiment as the collective witnessing 2) asymmetrical treatment that contrasts Boyle and Hobbes 3) the space for experiment that idealizes the societal structure 4) the boundary of internal and external that has to be transcended (展开)
0 有用 שרון 2022-09-27 07:43:23 美国
几个点1) emergence of experiment as the collective witnessing 2) asymmetrical treatment that contrasts Boyle and Hobbes 3) the space for experiment that idealizes the societal structure 4) the boundary o... 几个点1) emergence of experiment as the collective witnessing 2) asymmetrical treatment that contrasts Boyle and Hobbes 3) the space for experiment that idealizes the societal structure 4) the boundary of internal and external that has to be transcended (展开)
1 有用 Shawrobin 2020-08-29 23:49:13
新版的intro实在是太精彩了!
1 有用 廖芜 2018-09-21 11:19:41
STS founding text之一。回溯到17世纪闻讯究竟“experimental approach”是如何形成的?并在其推行者Boyle和“传统”式的natural philosopher 霍布斯的对抗中审视社会,尤其是政治纷争是如何潜入双方所谓客观公正的科学意见分歧的。结尾作者极为大胆的留下最后一句话:Hobbes is right!我们是否可以做出这样的总结见仁见智,但如果我们已经将科... STS founding text之一。回溯到17世纪闻讯究竟“experimental approach”是如何形成的?并在其推行者Boyle和“传统”式的natural philosopher 霍布斯的对抗中审视社会,尤其是政治纷争是如何潜入双方所谓客观公正的科学意见分歧的。结尾作者极为大胆的留下最后一句话:Hobbes is right!我们是否可以做出这样的总结见仁见智,但如果我们已经将科学解构至此,是不是也要重新想想究竟什么是我们所说的“政治”,推荐Hacking和Bruno Latour的书评 (展开)