{"title":"Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science","authors":"Steven Shapin","doi":"10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100919","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article is both a comment on the collection of papers, “Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science,” offered as a tribute to Klaas van Berkel, and an attempt to add historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science: Is it a special sort of inquiry? Is science as its subject matter a special sort of culture? Max Weber’s 1917 <em>Science as a Vocation</em> lecture, and its continuing appropriations, is a focal point for addressing these questions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":0,"journal":{"name":"","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932724000085","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article is both a comment on the collection of papers, “Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science,” offered as a tribute to Klaas van Berkel, and an attempt to add historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science: Is it a special sort of inquiry? Is science as its subject matter a special sort of culture? Max Weber’s 1917 Science as a Vocation lecture, and its continuing appropriations, is a focal point for addressing these questions.
本文既是对论文集《有精神的专家》的评论:作为对 Klaas van Berkel 的致敬,本文既是对论文集 "有精神的专家:重新赋予科学以魅力 "的评论,也试图为当今人们对科学史这一学科的认识增添历史的深度:它是一种特殊的探究吗?科学作为其主题是否是一种特殊的文化?马克斯-韦伯(Max Weber)1917 年发表的 "科学是一种天职"(Science as a Vocation)演讲,以及对这一演讲的不断引用,是探讨这些问题的一个焦点。