#  Articles 

 



 “[Hard Science, Soft Science: A Political History of a Disciplinary Array](/file_url/230),” History of Science, 60 (2022), 287-328.   
  
“[The Rise and Rise of Creativity](https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-creativity-become-an-engine-of-economic-growth),” Aeon (12 October 2020)

 “[Breakfast at Buck’s: Informality, Intimacy, and Innovation in Silicon Valley](/file_url/223),” Osiris, 35 (2020), 324-347.

 “[Is There a Crisis of Truth?](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-there-a-crisis-of-truth/)” Los Angeles Review of Books (2 December 2019)

 “[Making Art/Discovering Science](/file_url/219),” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 2, no. 2 (Fall 2018), 177-205.

 “[Why Was ‘Custom a Second Nature’ in Early Modern Medicine?](/file_url/220)” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 93 (2019), 1-26.

 “[Weber’s Science as a Vocation: A Moment in the History of ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’](/file_url/221),” Journal of Classical Sociology, 19 (2019), 290-307

 “*Was Luigi Cornaro a Dietary Expert?*,” Journal of the History of Medicine 73 (2018), pp. 135-149.

 “*[Invisible Science](/file_url/204)*,” The Hedgehog Review, xviii, no. 3 (Fall 2016), pp. 34-46.

 “*[A Taste of Science: Making the Subjective Objective in the California Wine World](/file_url/210)*,” Social Studies of Science, xlvi (2016), 436-460.

 “*[Figures de scientifiques](/file_url/205)*” in Histoire des sciences et des savoirs, Vol. 3: Le siècle des technosciences (depuis 1914) (Paris: Le Seuil, 2015), pp. 27-45 (trans. Cyril Le Roy).

 *"[Kuhn’s Structure: A Moment in Modern Naturalism](/file_url/200)*," in Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On, eds William J. Devlin and Alisa Bokulich, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 311 (Zürich: Springer-Verlag, 2015), pp. 11-21.

 "[*The Virtue of Scientific Thinking*](https://bostonreview.net/steven-shapin-scientism-virtue)," Boston Review, xl, no. 1 (January-February 2015), 32-39

 "*[You Are What You Eat’: Historical Changes in Ideas about Food and Identity](/file_url/103)*," <a>Historical Research</a> 87 (2014), pp. 377-392.

 "*[The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History](/file_url/104)*," <a>Rivista di Estetica</a> n.s. 51 (2012), pp. 49-94.

 *["The Ivory Tower: The History of a Figure of Speech and Its Cultural Uses](/file_url/105)*," <a>The British Journal for the History of Science</a> 45 (2012), pp. 1-27.

 *["The Sciences of Subjectivity](/file_url/106)*," <a>Social Studies of Science</a> 42 (2012), pp. 170-184.

 *["Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now](/file_url/107)*," The Hans Rausing Lecture 2011, <a>Salvia Småskrifter</a>, No. 14 (Uppsala: Tryck Wikströms, for the University of Uppsala, 2011), pp. 47.

 "[*Who’s an Authority on Nutrition Science?*](http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Detail.aspx?cid=4d87df6f-ae04-4c6d-86db-2f100895a8f7)" The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine (posted 21 October 2010)  
  
*["The Scientist in 2008](/file_url/202)*" SeedMagazine.com, (Posted November 20, 2008)

 "*[Science and the Modern World](/file_url/108),*" in <a>The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies</a>, 3rd Ed., eds Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 433-448.  
  
"*[Expertise, Common Sense, and the Atkins Diet](/file_url/109),*" in <a>Public Science in Liberal Democracy</a>, ed. Peter W. B. Phillips (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 174-193.  
  
"*[The Man of Science](/file_url/110)*,” in <a>The Cambridge History of Science</a>. Vol. 3: Early Modern Science, eds Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 179-191.  
  
*"[Hyper-Professionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science](/file_url/111)*,” <a>Isis</a> 96 (2005), pp. 238-243.  
  
"*[Science](/file_url/112)*," in <a>New Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society</a>, eds Tony Bennett, Larry Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 314-317.  
  
"*[Who is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop-Floor in the United States, ca. 1900-ca. 1970](/file_url/113)*," in <a>The Science–Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications</a>, Nobel Symposium 123, eds Karl Grandin, NinaWormbs, and Sven Widmalm (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2004), pp. 337-363.  
  
"*[The Way We Trust Now: The Authority of Science and the Character of the Scientist](/file_url/114)*," in Pervez Hoodbhoy, Daniel Glaser, and Steven Shapin, <a>Trust Me, I'm a Scientist</a> (London: The British Council, 2004), pp. 42-63.  
  
"[*The Image of the Man of Science*](/file_url/117)," in <a>The Cambridge History of Science</a>: Vol. 4. Eighteenth-Century Science, ed. Roy Porter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 159-183.  
  
"[*Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-Century Dietetic Medicine*](/file_url/118)," <a>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</a>, 77 (2003), pp. 263-297.  
  
"*[How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England](/file_url/119)*," in <a>Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene</a>, ed. Charles E. Rosenberg (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), pp. 21-58.  
  
"[*Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science For Example*](/file_url/120)," <a>Social Studies of Science</a>, 31 (2001), pp. 731-769.  
  
"[*Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer? Charisma and Complex Organization*](/file_url/121)," <a>Social Studies of Science</a>, 30 (2000), pp. 545-590 \[with Charles Thorpe\].  
  
"*[Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies](/file_url/122)*," <a>The British Journal for the History of Science</a>, 33 (2000), pp. 131-154.  
  
"*[How to be Antiscientific](/file_url/123)*," in <a>The One Culture? A Conversation about Science</a>, eds Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 99-115.  
  
"*[Science and Prejudice](/file_url/124)*" (published in German as "*Vorurteilsfreie Wissenschaft und Gute Gesellschaft: Zur Geschichte eines Vorurteil*,"), <a>Transit: Europäische Revue</a>, 16 (Winter 1998/99), pp. 51-63.  
  
"*[Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Talking about Truth](/file_url/125)*," <a>Configurations</a>, 7 (1999), pp. 1-14.  
  
"[*The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge*](/file_url/126)," in <a>Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge</a>, eds Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 21-50.  
  
"[*Placing the View from Nowhere: Historical and Sociological Problems in the Location of Science*](/file_url/127)," <a> Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers</a>, n.s. 23 (1998), pp. 5-12.  
  
"*[Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science](/file_url/128)*," <a>Perspectives on Science</a>, 3 (1995), pp. 255-275.  
  
"*[Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge](/file_url/129)*," <a>Annual Review of Sociology</a>, 21 (1995), pp. 289-321.  
  
"*[Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate](/file_url/130)*,"<a> History of Science</a>, 30 (1992), pp. 333-369.  
  
"[*A Scholar and a Gentleman: The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England*](/file_url/131)," <a>History of Science</a>, 24 (1991), pp. 279-327.  
  
"[*The Mind is Its Own Place: Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England*](/file_url/132)," <a>Science in Context</a>, 4 (1991), pp. 191-218.  
  
"*[Science and the Public](/file_url/133)*," in <a>Companion to the History of Modern Science</a>, eds R. C. Olby et al. (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 990-1007.  
  
"[*The Invisible Technician*](/file_url/134)," <a>American Scientist</a>, 77 (November-December 1989), pp. 554-563.  
  
"*[Who was Robert Hooke?](/file_url/135)*" in <a>Robert Hooke: New Studies</a>, eds Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989), pp. 253-285.  
  
"*[Understanding the Merton Thesis](/file_url/136)*,” <a>Isis</a> 79 (1988), pp. 594-605.  
  
"*[House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England](/file_url/137)*," <a>Isis</a>, 77 (1988), pp. 373-404.

 "[Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle’s Literary Technology](/file_url/203),”<a> Social Studies of Science</a> 14 (1984), 481-520.  
  
"*[History of Science and Its Sociological Reconstructions](/file_url/138)*," <a>History of Science</a>, 20 (1982), pp. 157-211.  
  
"*[Of Gods and Kings: Natural Philosophy and Politics in the Leibniz-Clarke Disputes](/file_url/139)*,” <a>Isis</a> 77 (1981), pp. 187-215.  
  
"*[The Politics of Observation: Cerebral Anatomy and Social Interests in the Edinburgh Phrenology Disputes](/file_url/140)*," in <a>On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge</a>, ed. Roy Wallis, Sociological Review Monographs, vol. xxvii (Keele: Keele University Press, 1979), pp. 139-178.  
  
"*[Science, Nature, and Control: Interpreting Mechanics' Institutes](/file_url/141)*," <a>Social Studies of Science</a>, 7 (1977), pp. 31-74 \[with Barry Barnes\].  
  
"*[Head and Hand: Rhetorical Resources in British Pedagogical Writing, 1770-1850](/file_url/142)*," <a>Oxford Review of Education</a>, 2 (1976), pp. 231-254 \[with Barry Barnes\].