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The Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685 (Paperback)
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The Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685 (Paperback)
Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values
come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of
knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive
and cultural standing of science was contested in its early
development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization,
he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in
opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by
it. Moreover, science did not present a unified picture of nature
but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful
but just as often incompatible, programmes. To complicate matters,
much depended on attempts to reshape the persona of the natural
philosopher, and distinctive new notions of objectivity and
impartiality were imported into natural philosophy, changing its
character radically by redefining the qualities of its
practitioners.
The West's sense of itself, its relation to its past, and its
sense of its future, have been profoundly altered since the
seventeenth century, as cognitive values generally have gradually
come to be shaped around scientific ones. Science has not merely
brought a new set of such values to the task of understanding the
world and our place in it, but rather has completely transformed
the task, redefining the goals of enquiry. This distinctive feature
of the development of a scientific culture in the West marks it out
from other scientifically productive cultures. In The Emergence of
a Scientific Culture, Stephen Gaukroger offers a detailed and
comprehensive account of the formative stages of this
development--and one which challenges the received wisdom that
science was seen to be self-evidentlythe correct path to knowledge
and that the benefits of science were immediately obvious to the
disinterested observer.
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