Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
And the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
Steven Shapin
Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University
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Science and the Modern World
At least since the late 19th century, commentators noted that science was the characteristic culture of the modern world and that it was the main cause of modernization. I want to document these sentiments, to offer an understanding of how they do indeed make sense, but also to describe a scheme of things in terms of which it is nonsense to link science and modernity. When we say that science now has enormous cultural authority, what are we actually saying? What can we coherently say about such a claim?
4:00PM
Monday, January 22, 2007
370 Dwinelle Hall -- note different location!
UC Berkeley
Co-Sponsored with the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: ohst@berkeley.edu
