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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones--come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in determining ideas of civilization, displ

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Author

Stephen Gaukroger

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192588920

Category

history

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Social History

Updated

2026-03-24