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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Part I Scientification and scientism in India -- Introduction to part I -- 1 The art of grammar in context: 'Science', human interest, and the construction of cultural and political worlds -- 2 Sanskrit and computer science -- 3 Mathematics and Vedic mathematics -- 4 The birth of the (exorcism) clinic: media, modernity, and the jinn -- 5 The science question in alternative agricultures: zero budget natural farming and the emergence of agronomical pluralism in India |
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6 Counting food?: the pitfalls of caloric conception of nutrition and alternative theories of food -- 7 Thinking about agriculture in an industrialising economy: an essay -- Part II Philosophical and anthropological foundations in the European history of science -- Introduction to part II: philosophy, anthropology and history of the humanities -- 8 The dominance of scientific knowledge and the devaluation of other forms of knowledge -- 9 Modernity, colonialism and the 'Science of Language' -- 10 Scientism of early modern age and the prevailing scholastic discourse on principium individuationis |
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11 Prolegomenon to the study of science and religion: a philosophical and historical reflection -- 12 Technoscientification and the oblivion of the social dimension of knowledge -- 13 Science cannot do it alone: habits, environment, and the enchantment of beauty -- 14 Knowledge and science in the art of living -- 15 Transforming knowledge into cognitive basis of policies: a cosmopolitan from below approach -- 16 The limits of science from the standpoint of philosophy -- Index |
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Science -- South Asia -- History
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Science -- Europe -- History
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Science
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Europe
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South Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Michaels, Axel, editor
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Wulf, Christoph, 1944- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781000051797 |
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100005179X |
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9781000051872 |
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1000051870 |
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9781000051797 |
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9781000051834 |
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1000051838 |
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9780429353215 |
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0429353219 |
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