Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

Zusatztext a project of breathtaking ambition... an impressive performance...and synthesizes a lot of difficult material into a coherent body. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Gaukroger has a BA (Philosophy) from the University of London and a Ph.D (History and Philosophy of Science) from the University of Cambridge. He was Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Science, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1977-1978; Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, 1978-1980. Since 1981 he has been in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney where he is currently Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science. Klappentext Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows that science was bitterly contested during the early modern period. It did not distance itself from religion but rather entered into an alliance with it to provide a comprehensive picture of the world--transforming not just science but also religion. Zusammenfassung Shows that science was bitterly contested during the early modern period. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, this work argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I 1: Science and modernity Part II 2: From Augustinian synthesis to Aristotelian amalgam 3: Renaissance natural philosophies 4: The interpretation of nature and the origins of physico-theology Part III 5: Reconstructing natural philosophy 6: Reconstructing the natural philosopher 7: The aims of enquiry Part IV 8: Corpuscularianism and the rise of mechanism 9: The scope of mechanism 10: Experimental natural philosophy 11: The quantitative transformation of natural philosophy Part V 12: The unity of knowledge ...

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• Authors: Stephen Gaukroger, Stephen (University of Sydney) Gaukroger, Gaukroger Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780199296446
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929644-6
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity; Science and the Shaping of Mod
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SCIENCE / History, RELIGION / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Religion, History of Science, Philosophy of religion