史蒂文·沙平(Steven Shapin)是哈佛大学科学史名誉教授。他的著作包括《利维坦与空气泵:霍布斯、波义耳与实验生活》(Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life,与西蒙 ·沙弗(Simon Schaffer)合着)、《科学 生活:近现代职业的道德史》(The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation)、《科学革命》(The Scientific Revolution)、《真理的社会史:十七世纪英格兰的文明与科学》(A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England)以及《永不纯粹:科学历史中的人性和背景,及其对可信度和权威性的追求》(Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority)。