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Pages: 516
Authors: Steven Shapin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A Social History of Truth is a bold theoretical and historical exploration of the social conditions that make knowledge possible in any period and in any endeav
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Language: en
Pages: 534
Authors: Steven Shapin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In A Social History of Truth, a leading scholar addresses these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early mo
The Truth Machine
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Geoffrey C. Bunn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06 - Publisher: JHU Press

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For centuries, all manner of truth-seekers have used the lie detector. In this eye-opening book, Geoffrey C Bunn unpacks the history of this device and explores
A Short History of Truth
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Julian Baggini
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-21 - Publisher: Quercus Publishing

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Never Pure
Language: en
Pages: 565
Authors: Steven Shapin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put