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The life of science: notes for a moral history of a late modern vocation| old_uid | 4988 |
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| title | The life of science: notes for a moral history of a late modern vocation |
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| start_date | 2008/06/02 |
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| schedule | 15h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | pavillon jardin, gauche, rdc, / |
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| summary | Is late modern technoscience a calling or a job?
From the time of Weber's essay "Science as a Vocation" (1918), the de-personalization and de-moralization of the scientific life have been much insisted upon by cultural commentators.
Looking at episodes of American science from the early 20th century to the entrepreneurial present, I argue that the roles of trust in familiar people, of ascribed personal virtue, and even of charisma have never been more important in institutionalized scientific life than they now are. And I illustrate this argument with brief examples from American industrial research laboratories and from venture-capital fuelled entrepreneurial science.
The talk is a precis of Shapin's new book THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE: A MORAL HISTORY OF A LATE MODERN VOCATION (University of Chicago Press, September 2008). |
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| oncancel | changement d’horaire |
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| responsibles | Sperber, Claidière, Lesguillons |
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