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Civilization and the culture of science : science and the shaping of modernity, 1795-1935 / Stephen Gaukroger.
LIBRA Q125 .G38 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaukroger, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History--19th century.
- Science.
- History.
- Science--History--20th century.
- Science and civilization.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 519 pages, 8 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Part I Civilization
- 1 Science and the Origins of Civilization p. 19
- Civilization and Barbarism p. 22
- The Uniqueness of the West p. 27
- Universal History p. 34
- Civilization versus Kultur p. 40
- 2 The Evolution of Civilization p. 46
- Stadial Theories of Science and Civilization p. 46
- The Science of Civilization p. 56
- The Transition to Civilization p. 60
- East and West p. 65
- Technology and Civilization p. 68
- Part II The Unity of Science
- 3 The Promotion of Unification p. 77
- The Advancement of Science p. 80
- The Unification of the Sciences p. 87
- Unity and Universality p. 93
- 4 The Unity of the Physical Sciences p. 104
- The Experimental Legacy p. 105
- Energy as a Unification Strategy p. 112
- The Nature of Unification p. 119
- 5 The Autonomy of the Material Sciences p. 122
- The Physical and the Material p. 123
- Chemical Structure p. 127
- Equations and Models p. 140
- Atoms: A Unification of Chemistry and Physics? p. 143
- 6 The Autonomy of the Life Sciences p. 155
- The Physiological Path p. 159
- Physiology and Chemistry: The Failure of Reduction p. 169
- Establishing the Autonomy of Physiology p. 177
- Beyond Emergent Properties p. 182
- 7 The Unity of the Life Sciences p. 188
- Natural History and the Age of the Earth p. 189
- The Distribution and Diversity of Species p. 196
- Embryos as Ancestors p. 201
- The 'Modern Synthesis' p. 214
- Recovering a Lost Unity p. 223
- Part III The Expansion of Scientific Understanding
- 8 The Problem of the Human Sciences p. 229
- The Quantification of Human Behaviour p. 231
- The Moral Standing of Induction p. 239
- The Human Sciences and the Birth of Metascience p. 246
- 'A Psychophysical Machine' p. 251
- 9 Understanding the World: Science versus Philosophy p. 259
- Neo-Kantianism and the Role of Epistemology p. 266
- The Human Sciences p. 276
- The 'Crisis of the European Sciences' p. 280
- Part IV The Pursuit of Science by Other Means: 'Applied' and 'Popular' Science
- 10 Technology and the Limits of Scientific Theorizing p. 291
- Technology and the 'Unruliness' of Science p. 295
- The Standing of the Scientist p. 309
- Science and Machines p. 317
- The Non-Discursive Products of Science p. 329
- 11 Science For and By the Public p. 336
- Scientific Literacy p. 342
- Fairies and Monsters p. 347
- Natural History and the Secularization of Nature p. 356'The Scie
- Science and the Future p. 374
- Space: Science Fiction and Engineering p. 382
- Part V Science and the Civilizing Process
- 12 The Modernization of the Population: Accommodating the Human to the Scientific Image p. 391
- The Construction of Norms p. 395
- Heredity and the Improvement of the Population p. 403
- Intelligence, Social Standing, and Rationality p. 412
- 13 Science and the Shaping of Modernity p. 423.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780198849070
- 0198849079
- OCLC:
- 1113351024
- Publisher Number:
- 99984752881
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