The Collapse Of Mechanism and The Rise Of Sensibility

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… Read more about this item

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Paperback / softback. New. How did we come to have a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.

OUP Oxford, 2011. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 464 pages. 9.29x6.30x1.89 inches.

Oxford Univ Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 505 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches.

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