On Modern Science, Human Cognition and Cultural Diverity. Preprint 137. An Essay.

Language: English

Published by Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2000

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16 p. A good and very clean copy. - Abstract: The development of modem science has depended strongly on specific features of the cultures involved; however, its results are widely and transculturally accepted and applied. The science and technology of electricity, for example, emerged as a specific product of post-Renaissance Europe, rooted in the Greek philosophical tradition that encourages explanations of nature in theoretical terms. It did not evolve in China presumably because such encouragement was missing. The transcultural acceptance of modem science and technology is postulated to be due, in part, to the common biological dispositions underlying human cognition, with generalizable capabilities of abstract, symbolic and strategic thought. These faculties of the human mind are main prerequisites for dynamic cultural development and differentiation. They appear to have evolved up to a stage of hunters and gatherers perhaps some 100 000 years ago. However, the extent of the correspondence between some constructions of the human mind and the order of nature, as revealed by science, is a late insight of the last two centuries. Unless we subscribe to extreme forms of constructivism or historical relativism, we may take the success and the formal structure of science as indications of a close, intrinsic relation between the physical and the mental, between the order of nature and the structure of human cognition. At the metatheoreti-cal level, however, modem science is consistent with philosophical and cultural diversity. - Wikipedia: Alfred Gierer (* 15. April 1929 in Berlin) ist ein deutscher Physiker, Professor und Direktor (Emeritus) am Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie in Tübingen, der sich auf Biologie (unter anderem Erforschung des Tabakmosaikvirus TMV), Biophysik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften spezialisiert hat. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Title
On Modern Science, Human Cognition and Cultural Diverity. Preprint 137. An Essay.
Author
Gierer, Alfred:
Publisher
Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publication year
2000
Condition
Gut
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Original brochure.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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