Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as afruitful
Introduction; Part I; The Dichotomies of Understanding; Rethinking the Nature of Matter; Part II; Anthropological Medicine; Philosophical Anthropology; The Natural History of Man; Social Arithmetic; Part III; The Naturalization of Religion; Conclusion; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index;
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