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Photos included in listing. Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012 Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones -- is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the emergence of such scientific values lies above all in their ability to provide the criteria by which we come to appraise cognitive enquiry, and which shape our understanding of what it can achieve. The period between the 1680s and the middle of the eighteenth century is a very distinctive one in this development. It is then that we witness the emergence of the idea that scientific values form a model for all cognitive claims. It is also at this time that science explicitly goes beyond technical expertise and begins to articulate a world-view designed to displace others, whether humanist or Christian. But what occurred took place in a peculiar and overdetermined fashion, and…
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- Title The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and Shaping of the Modernity 1680-1760
- Author Stephen Gaukroger
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- Pages 516
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarendon Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2012-12-29
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780199664665 / 0199664668
- Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
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