An edition of The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility
(2010)
The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility
science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760
by Stephen Gaukroger
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How did we come to have a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.
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Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760
2012, Oxford University Press
in English
0199664668 9780199664665
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The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility: science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760
2010, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
0199594937 9780199594931
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Table of Contents
The construction of a new world picture
The mathematical principles of natural philosophy
The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy
From experimental philosophy to empiricism
Explaining the phenomena
Natural philosophy and the republic of letters
The realm of reason
The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy
Material activity
Living and dead matter
The realm of sensibility
Historical understanding and the human condition.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [454]-491) and index.
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