Whilst the 'local culture' of experimental natural philosophy in seventeenth-century England drew on 'resources' supplied by the gentlemanly identity of men like Robert Boyle, this culture found much of its distinctiveness in a series of exclusions having to do with faith, gender and class. My concern in this essay is less with these exclusions, and the distinctions they enabled, than with their surreptitious returns. Following from this, as a heuristic strategy, I will try to understand how Boyle and Co. used and reacted to, repressed and cathected, that which they sought to exclude. By charting the movements of exile and return across the contested frontiers of class, gender and faith, truth and lies, authenticity and performance, we can, I believe, fruitfully complicate our understandings of both the social history of truth, and the social history of our 'post-truth' predicament.

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“如果”的药剂师：与史蒂文·沙平（Steven Shapin）的《真理的社会史》合作

虽然 17 世纪英国实验性自然哲学的“地方文化”利用了像罗伯特·博伊尔这样的绅士身份所提供的“资源”，但这种文化在一系列与信仰、性别有关的排斥中发现了它的许多独特之处。和班级。在这篇文章中，我关心的不是这些排除，以及它们带来的区别，而是它们的秘密回报。继此之后，作为一种启发式策略，我将尝试了解博伊尔和他的公司如何使用和反应、压制和引导他们试图排除的东西。通过描绘跨越阶级、性别和信仰、真相和谎言、真实性和表演的有争议的边界的流放和回归运动，我相信，我们可以使我们对真相的社会历史的理解变得富有成效，