The Scientific Life
A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
486 pages, 16 halftones, 2 line drawings 6 x 9
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2008
Cloth $29.00
ISBN: 9780226750248
Published October 2008
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Knowledge and Virtue
The Way We Live Now
2 From Calling to Job
Nature, Truth, Method, and Vocation from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
3 The Moral Equivalence of the Scientist
A History of the Very Idea
4 Who Is the Industrial Scientist?
The View from the Tower
5 Who Is the Industrial Scientist?
The View from the Managers
6 The Scientist and the Civic Virtues
The Moral Life of Organized Science
7 The Scientific Entrepreneur
Money, Motives, and the Place of Virtue
8 Visions of the Future
Uncertainty and Virtue in the World of High-Tech and Venture Capital
The Way We Live Now
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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