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The Great Knowledge Transcendence : The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed / by Dengjian Jin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jin, Dengjian., Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology The great knowledge transcendence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World history.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Engineering.
- Life sciences.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- History of Science.
- Technology and Engineering.
- Life Sciences.
- Local Subjects:
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- History of Science.
- Technology and Engineering.
- Life Sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Unnatural Knowledge; Part I The 1492 Question and the Great Knowledge Transcendence Framework; 2 The 1492 Question and the Needham Puzzle; 3 The Transcendence View of Human Creativity; Part II Cognitive Limits to Natural Knowledge Creation; 4 The Limits of the Core Knowledge Systems; 5 The Limits of the Knowledge Generation Systems; Part III The Limited Evolvability of Premodern Knowledge; 6 The Partial Transcendence of the Axial Age; 7 The Limits of Natural Knowers; 8 The Limits of Natural Societies of Minds
- Part IV The Advent of Transcendental Knowing9 The First Mover; 10 Artificial Mechanisms for Knowledge Transcendence; 11 Sustained Knowledge Transcendence: Impacts and Implications; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137527943
- 1137527943
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