Civilization and the Culture of Science

Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Plates
Introduction
Part I: Civilization
1: Science and the Origins of Civilization
2: The Evolution of Civilization
Part II: The Unity of Science
3: The Promotion of Unification
4: The Unity of the Physical Sciences
5: The Autonomy of the Material Sciences
6: The Autonomy of the Life Sciences
7: The Unity of the Life Sciences
Part III: The Expansion of Scientific Understanding
8: The Problem of the Human Sciences
9: Understanding the World: Science versus Philosophy
Part IV: The Pursuit of Science by Other Means: 'Applied' and 'Popular Science'
10: Technology and the Limits of Scientific Theorizing
11: Science For and By the Public
Part V: Science and the Civilizing Process
12: The Modernization of the Population: Accommodating the Human to the Scientific Image
Conclusion
13: Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

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• Filosofia da Ciência
• História da Ciência
• História das idéias
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