Keywords:
Science-Social aspects-South Asia.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This volume critically examines the role of science in the humanities and social sciences. It studies how cultures and societies in South Asia and Europe underwent a transformation with the adoption or adaptation of scientific methods, turning ancient cultural processes and phenomena into an enhanced scientific structure.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781000051797
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6130887
DDC:
509
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Part I Scientification and scientism in India -- Introduction to part I -- 1 The art of grammar in context: 'Science', human interest, and the construction of cultural and political worlds -- 2 Sanskrit and computer science -- 3 Mathematics and Vedic mathematics -- 4 The birth of the (exorcism) clinic: media, modernity, and the jinn -- 5 The science question in alternative agricultures: zero budget natural farming and the emergence of agronomical pluralism in India -- 6 Counting food?: the pitfalls of caloric conception of nutrition and alternative theories of food -- 7 Thinking about agriculture in an industrialising economy: an essay -- Part II Philosophical and anthropological foundations in the European history of science -- Introduction to part II: philosophy, anthropology and history of the humanities -- 8 The dominance of scientific knowledge and the devaluation of other forms of knowledge -- 9 Modernity, colonialism and the 'Science of Language' -- 10 Scientism of early modern age and the prevailing scholastic discourse on principium individuationis -- 11 Prolegomenon to the study of science and religion: a philosophical and historical reflection -- 12 Technoscientification and the oblivion of the social dimension of knowledge -- 13 Science cannot do it alone: habits, environment, and the enchantment of beauty -- 14 Knowledge and science in the art of living -- 15 Transforming knowledge into cognitive basis of policies: a cosmopolitan from below approach -- 16 The limits of science from the standpoint of philosophy -- Index.
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