Steven Shapin plantea en este libro un sólido argumento a favor de la pertinaz importancia de la confianza a la hora de establecer el conocimiento empírico acerca del mundo natural. Sus relatos históricos, de exquisita riqueza en cuan...
Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are expertsâindeed, highly respected expertsâauthorized to describe and interp...
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?