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Author Jin, Dengjian, author.

Title The great knowledge transcendence : the rise of western science and technology reframed / Dengjian Jin.

Publication Info. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Unnatural Knowledge; Part I The 1492 Question and the Great Knowledge Transcendence Framework; 2 The 1492 Question and the Needham Puzzle; 3 The Transcendence View of Human Creativity; Part II Cognitive Limits to Natural Knowledge Creation; 4 The Limits of the Core Knowledge Systems; 5 The Limits of the Knowledge Generation Systems; Part III The Limited Evolvability of Premodern Knowledge; 6 The Partial Transcendence of the Axial Age; 7 The Limits of Natural Knowers; 8 The Limits of Natural Societies of Minds.
Part IV The Advent of Transcendental Knowing9 The First Mover; 10 Artificial Mechanisms for Knowledge Transcendence; 11 Sustained Knowledge Transcendence: Impacts and Implications; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Science -- Philosophy -- History.
Science -- Philosophy.
History.
Methodology -- History.
Science and civilization.
Methodology.
Science and civilization.
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Jin, Dengjian. Great knowledge transcendence. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 9781137527936 1137527935 (DLC) 2015016504 (OCoLC)908250494
Print version: Jin, Dengjian. Great knowledge transcendence 9781137527936 (DLC) 2015016504 (OCoLC)930488104
ISBN 9781137527943 (electronic book)
1137527943 (electronic book)
1349575712 (electronic book)
9781349575718 (electronic book)
9781137527936 (print)
1137527935 (print)

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