NATURAL & THE HUMAN 1739-1841 SSM C

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Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at London and Cambridge Universities, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of nine books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685, was published in 2006, and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760, was published in 2010. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.

Introduction
Part I
1: The Dichotomies of Understanding
2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter
Part II
3: Anthropological Medicine
4: Philosophical Anthropology
5: The Natural History of Man
6: Social Arithmetic
Part III
7: The Naturalization of Religion
Conclusion
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index