ABSTRACT
This volume critically examines the role of science in the humanities and social sciences. It studies how cultures and societies in South Asia and Europe underwent a transformation with the adoption or adaptation of scientific methods, turning ancient cultural processes and phenomena into an enhanced scientific structure.
The chapters in this book
- Discuss the development of science as a method in modern and historical contexts and the differences between modern science, scientification and pseudoscience.
- Study the interactions between bodies of knowledge such as Sanskrit and computer science; mathematics and Vedic mathematics; science and philosophy.
Drawing on textual material, extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, Indology, history, linguistics, history and philosophy of science and social science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|126 pages
Scientification and scientism in India
chapter 1|29 pages
The art of grammar in context
‘Science’, human interest, and the construction of cultural and political worlds
chapter 5|18 pages
The science question in alternative agricultures
Zero budget natural farming and the emergence of agronomical pluralism in India
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chapter 6|18 pages
Counting food?
The pitfalls of caloric conception of nutrition and alternative theories of food
part II|143 pages
Philosophical and anthropological foundations in the European history of science
chapter 11|13 pages
Prolegomenon to the study of science and religion
A philosophical and historical reflection
chapter 15|13 pages
Transforming knowledge into cognitive basis of policies
A cosmopolitan from below approach
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