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Asia, Europe, and the emergence of modern science [electronic resource] : knowledge crossing boundaries / edited by Arun Bala.

Balasubramaniam, Arun.
2012
Q127.A65 A85 2012eb
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Title
Asia, Europe, and the emergence of modern science [electronic resource] : knowledge crossing boundaries / edited by Arun Bala.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781137031730 (electronic book)
9781137031723
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 282 pages) : illustrations
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Q127.A65 A85 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.5
Summary
This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers, including natural and social scientists, historians, philosophers and educationists to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions can provide resources for advancing scientific knowledge in future. Although studies in the past have attempted to address these issues they have generally been motivated by area studies concerns so that the approach has been dominated by binary perspectives which look at how dialogue with a particular Asian tradition ₆ such as Chinese, Indian or Arabic-Islamic ₆ impacted or can impact modern science. By contrast this study draws writers from a plurality of Asian cultures so as to not only better situate the contributions of the different Asian scientific traditions into a more balanced perspective, but also promote deeper insights into the ways in which influences from a diversity of civilizations get transmitted and modified as they cross boundaries of culture and become contextualized in new intellectual milieus.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Balasubramaniam, Arun.
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Toward Dialogical History
1.Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism / John M. Hobson
2.A Passage to Infinity: The Contribution of Kerala to Modern Mathematics / George Gheverghese Joseph
3.Copernicus, Arabic Science, and the Scientific (R)evolution / Michal Kokowski
4.Time Atomism and Ash'arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism Revisited / Richard T. W. Arthur
5.Pramanas, Proofs, and the Yukti of Classical Indic Science / Roddam Narasimha
pt. II Science, Rationality, and Intercultural Dialogue
6.Traditional Knowledge and the Smallpox Eradication Campaign / James Robert Brown
7.The Dialogical Copernican Revolution: Implications for Scientific Method / Arun Bala
8.How Indigenous are "Indigenous Sciences?" The Case of "Islamic Sciences" / Ali Paya
9.The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Rise of Modern Science / Anjam Khursheed
10.Science, Technology, and Civilization Reconsidered / Andrew Brennan
pt. III Forging New Knowledge
11.Toward Constructing Post-postmodern Twenty-First Century Sciences: The Relevance of Classical Chinese Medicine / Keekok Lee
12.Diverse Cultural Contributions to a "Science of Religion": An Emerging Asia-Europe Dialogue on the Scientific Study of Religion / Donald Wiebe
13.Reclaiming Tradition: Implications of a Knowledge Indigenization Perspective for Asian Education / S. Gopinathan
14.Southeast Asia's Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae / Victor R. Savage.

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