The Natural and the Human : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Science and the Shaping of Modernity
ISBN-10
0198801602
ISBN-13
9780198801603
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 8th, 2018
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
630 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.40 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900History of ideasPsychologyPhilosophy of science
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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was seen. At the core of the shift lies the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations in empirical rather than theological and metaphysical terms.
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful
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