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Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Unnatural Knowledge
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The 1492 Question and the Great Knowledge Transcendence Framework
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Cognitive Limits to Natural Knowledge Creation
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The Limited Evolvability of Premodern Knowledge
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The Advent of Transcendental Knowing
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About this book
This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Great Knowledge Transcendence
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed
Authors: Dengjian Jin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527943
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52793-6Published: 03 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52794-3Published: 01 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 312
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, European History, Modern History, History of Science, Popular Science, general