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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 a fruitful
Introduction
Part I
1: The Dichotomies of Understanding
2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter
Part II
3: Anthropological Medicine
4: Philosophical Anthropology
5: The Natural History of Man
6: Social Arithmetic
Part III
7: The Naturalization of Religion
Conclusion
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
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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 a fruitful
