Science Deified & Science Defied: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture, Volume 2University of California Press, 1982 - 445 pagina's Richard Olson's magisterial two-volume work, Science Deified and Science Defied asks how, why, to what extent, and with what consequences scientific ideas have influenced Western culture. In Volume 2, Olson turns to Cartesianism and the extension of mathematical and mechanical philosophies that branched into every aspect of seventeenth-century thought. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Ideological Implications | 4 |
Empiricist Political Science in the Seventeenth | 61 |
The Religious Implications of Newtonian Science | 87 |
The Tradition of Political Economy | 140 |
The Ideological Implications of Enlightenment Social Science | 191 |
The Ideological Implications of Enlightenment Social Science | 236 |
Hartley and the British Doctrine of Natural | 249 |
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