If it was indeed the fate of scientific work to become obsolete within 10–15 years, as Max Weber contended in Science as a Vocation, why does the Journal of Classical Sociology publish this article a century after publication of his famous lecture? Departing from anthropological fieldwork on the revival of psychedelic science since the 1990s, the author gives two answers. First, Weber provided a historically and culturally situated ideal type of vocational science with which we can compare and contrast the ethos of early twenty-first century scientists. The Swiss neuroscientist Franz X. Vollenweider, for example, defied the stern Protestantism of Weber’s vocational humanity and inferred from an amalgamation of psychedelic experiences and Hindu philosophemes a conception of science as play. Second, Weber not only contributed to the historical sociology of science an empirical description and conceptual analysis of turn-of-the-century scientific life in Germany and the United States but also unleashed a polemic against the confusion of facts and values. At a time when science studies and cognate fields of social research have formed a widespread consensus regarding the inseparability of description and prescription, Science as a Vocation has become a classic that offers orientation to opponents and supporters of value freedom alike. The article concludes with a plea to scholars in the nascent psychedelic humanities, which could easily be extended to anyone working between the two cultures of the sciences and the humanities, to cultivate value freedom as part of an epistemic virtue ethics.

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作为宇宙游戏的迷幻科学，作为常年论战的迷幻人文？或者为什么我们仍在为 Max Weber 的科学作为职业而斗争

如果真的是科学工作在 10 到 15 年内被淘汰的命运，正如马克斯韦伯在科学作为职业中所主张的那样，为什么古典社会学杂志在他的著名演讲发表一个世纪后发表这篇文章？从90年代以来迷幻科学复兴的人类学田野调查出发，作者给出了两个答案。首先，韦伯提供了一种历史和文化定位的理想职业科学类型，我们可以用它来比较和对比 21 世纪早期科学家的精神。例如，瑞士神经科学家弗朗茨·X·沃伦韦德 (Franz X. Vollenweider) 反抗韦伯职业人性中严厉的新教主义，并从迷幻体验和印度教哲学的融合中推断出一种将科学视为游戏的概念。第二，韦伯不仅为科学的历史社会学做出了对德国和美国世纪之交科学生活的实证描述和概念分析，而且还发起了一场反对混淆事实和价值的论战。在科学研究和社会研究的同源领域对描述和处方的不可分割性形成广泛共识的时候，作为职业的科学已经成为经典，为价值自由的反对者和支持者提供了方向。文章最后呼吁新生的迷幻人文学科的学者们，可以很容易地扩展到在科学和人文学科两种文化之间工作的任何人，以培养价值自由作为认知美德伦理的一部分。