[PDF.08vn] The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760

The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760

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 | #1427187 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2012-12-29 |  2012-12-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x1.20 x9.20l,1.90 | File type: PDF | 516 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| ''Physics and mathematics presently occupy the throne. . . Perhaps their fall is not far off'' - Gibbon (1761)|By Clay Garner|Gibbon - 1761: "In every country in every age, we witness some discipline being given preference which is to often unmerited, while other studies suffer from an equally unmerited contempt. . . Physics and mathematics presently occupy the throne. . . Perh

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 the criteria by which we come to appraise cognitive enquiry, and which shape our understanding of what it can achieve.

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