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

by Stephen Gaukroger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199664668
• ISBN13: 9780199664665
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"