Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192588931
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displacing Christianity in this role. Christianity had provided a unifying thread in the study of the world, however, and science had to match this, which it did through the project of the unity of the sciences. The standing of science came to rest or fall on this question, which the book sets out to show in detail is essentially ideological, not something that arose from developments within the sciences, which remained pluralistic and modular. A crucial ingredient in this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. In his engaging description of this transition to a scientific modernity, Gaukroger examines five of the issues which underpinned this shift in detail: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the concepts of 'applied' and 'popular' science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.
Civilization and the Culture of Science
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192588931
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displacing Christianity in this role. Christianity had provided a unifying thread in the study of the world, however, and science had to match this, which it did through the project of the unity of the sciences. The standing of science came to rest or fall on this question, which the book sets out to show in detail is essentially ideological, not something that arose from developments within the sciences, which remained pluralistic and modular. A crucial ingredient in this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. In his engaging description of this transition to a scientific modernity, Gaukroger examines five of the issues which underpinned this shift in detail: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the concepts of 'applied' and 'popular' science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192588931
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displacing Christianity in this role. Christianity had provided a unifying thread in the study of the world, however, and science had to match this, which it did through the project of the unity of the sciences. The standing of science came to rest or fall on this question, which the book sets out to show in detail is essentially ideological, not something that arose from developments within the sciences, which remained pluralistic and modular. A crucial ingredient in this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. In his engaging description of this transition to a scientific modernity, Gaukroger examines five of the issues which underpinned this shift in detail: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the concepts of 'applied' and 'popular' science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.
Analyse Chronologique del histoire universelle
Analyse chronologique de l'histoire universelle depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a l'empire du Charlemagne inclusivement
Author: Etienne Andre Philippe
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Languages : fr
Pages : 338
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Pages : 338
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Analyse chronologique de l'histoire universelle
Author: Etienne-André Philippe de Prétot
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Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : fr
Pages : 279
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Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : fr
Pages : 279
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Analyse chronologique de l'histoire universelle, depuis le commencement du monde, jusqu'a l'empire de Charlemagne inclusivement
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Author: Etienne-André Philippe de Prétot
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Languages : fr
Pages : 298
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Analyse chronologique de l'Histoire universelle
Analyse chronologique de l'Histoire universelle depuis le commencement du Monde jusqu'à l'Empire de Charlemagne inclusiviment
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Analyse chronologique de l'histoire universelle depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à Charlemagne. 2ème éd..
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Pages : 380
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