Is the life of the scientist a scientific unit?

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Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 314-321

  Porter, Theodore M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33746218726     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504737     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. I think of Mario Biagiol, Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolution (Chigaco: Univ. Chicago Press, 1993);
2. and Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1994).
3. This is especially true of work on nineteenth-century Britain. See, e.g., Roger Cooter, The Culture Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984);
4. Adrian Desmond, The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1989);
5. and James Second, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2000).
6. Joseph Ben-David, The Scientist's Role in Society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971).
7. Max Weber, "Science as a Vocation," in From Max Weber, ed. and trans. H. C. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1946), pp. 129-156, writing with irony and evident ambivalence.
8. Charles Coulston Gillispie, The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1960).
9. Compare the work by his student Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1995), where the theme of sacrifice and adaptation to circumstances of political distrust is emphasized more strongly.
10. Yaron Ezrahi, "Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies," in States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and Social Order ed. Sheila Jasanoff (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 254-273.
11. Adrian Desmond, Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest (London: Penguin, 1998);
12. and Paul White, Thomas Huxley: Making the "Man of Science" (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003).
13. Karl Pearson, "The Enthusiasm of the Market-Place and of the Study," in The Ethic of Freethought and Other Addresses and Essays (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1882). "Questions of the Day and Fray" was the umbrella title for a series of lectures Pearson organized in the early twentieth century.
14. Theodore M. Porter, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004).
15. On Maupertuis see Mary Terrall's essay in this Focus section and her book The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2002).
16. He participated actively in debates on university education. See Karl Pearson, The New University for London: A Guide to Its History and a Criticism of Its Defects (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892).
17. Karl Pearson Papers, Manuscripts Room, University College London.
18. But there are similarities in the sources available to Thomas Söderqvist for his Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne, trans. David Mel Paul (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 2003).
19. We might compare Pearson's tempestuous life with the calm professionalism of Herbert Simon, as portrayed in Hunter Crowther-Heyck, Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005.