Civilization and the Culture of Science - Gaukroger, Stephen
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral, political, and social values, come to be modelled around scientific values? Stephen Gaukroger traces the story of how these values developed, and how they influenced society and culture from the 19th to the mid-20th century.

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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral, political, and social values, come to be modelled around scientific values? Stephen Gaukroger traces the story of how these values developed, and how they influenced society and culture from the 19th to the mid-20th century.
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Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at the University of London and the University of Cambridge, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of fourteen books and the editor of nine collections of essays. His recent publications include The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685 (Oxford 2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Oxford 2010), and The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Oxford 2016). His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.