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Publication The Sciences of Subjectivity(SAGE Publications, 2012) Shapin, StevenIn historical and ethnographic studies of the making of scientific knowledge, there has been a long-standing fascination with deflating certain stories about objectivity. Among the resources used to achieve that deflation have been the notions of subjectivity, which has been treated more as a trouble for objectivity than as a knowledge-making mode open to systematic study. I describe notions of subjectivity implicated in that inattention; I trace potentially constructive links between contemporary science studies and resources in 18th-century philosophical aesthetics; I draw notice to available engagements with the mode of subjectivity known as taste, and, especially, gustation and olfaction; and I suggest ways in which we might study the achievement of intersubjectivity in these domains.Publication Publication Review: Personal Development and Intellectual Biography: The Case of Robert Boyle The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle by Robert Boyle; John T. Harwood(Cambridge University Press, 1993) Shapin, StevenPublication The Ivory Tower: The History of a Figure of Speech and Its Cultural Uses(Cambridge Journals, 2012) Shapin, StevenThis is a historical survey of how and why the notion of the Ivory Tower became part of twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural vocabularies. It very briefly tracks the origins of the tag in antiquity, documents its nineteenth-century resurgence in literary and aesthetic culture, and more carefully assesses the political and intellectual circumstances, especially in the 1930s and 1940s, in which it became a common phrase attached to universities and to features of science and in which it became a way of criticizing practices and institutions deemed to be ‘irrelevant’. The paper concludes by reflecting on the tag’s relationship to pervasive cultural tropes and how its modern history may be used to appreciate better where science and its academic setting now stand in the ancient debate between the active and contemplative lives.Publication The Invisible Technician(American Scientist, 1989) Shapin, StevenPublication Science and the Public(Routledge, 1990) Shapin, StevenPublication "The Mind is Its Own Place": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England(Cambridge University Press, 1991) Shapin, StevenPublication "A Scholar and a Gentleman": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England(Science History Publications Ltd., 1991) Shapin, StevenPublication Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate(Science History Publications Ltd, 1992) Shapin, StevenPublication The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge(University of Chicago Press, 1998) Shapin, Steven