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The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed

The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed

Hardcover

General World HistoryHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1137527935
ISBN13: 9781137527936
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.

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