Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States.
Endeavour. 2024 Mar;48(1):100919. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100919. Epub 2024 Mar 22.
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.
这篇文章既是对“Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science”这组论文的评论,也是对 Klaas van Berkel 的致敬,同时试图为当今人们对被称为科学史的学术学科的看法增添历史深度:它是一种特殊的探究方式吗?它的研究对象科学是一种特殊的文化吗?马克斯·韦伯(Max Weber)1917 年的《科学作为天职》演讲及其不断被引用,是回答这些问题的焦点。