Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Foreword Part I Scientification and scientism in India Introduction to part I 1 The art of grammar in context: ‘Science’, human interest, and the construction of cultural and political worlds 2 Sanskrit and computer science 3 Mathematics and Vedic mathematics 4 The birth of the (exorcism) clinic: media, modernity, and the jinn 5 The science question in alternative agricultures: zero budget natural farming and the emergence of agronomical pluralism in India 6 Counting food?: the pitfalls of caloric conception of nutrition and alternative theories of food 7 Thinking about agriculture in an industrialising economy: an essay Part II Philosophical and anthropological foundations in the European history of science Introduction to part II: philosophy, anthropology and history of the humanities 8 The dominance of scientific knowledge and the devaluation of other forms of knowledge 9 Modernity, colonialism and the ‘Science of Language’ 10 Scientism of early modern age and the prevailing scholastic discourse on principium individuationis 11 Prolegomenon to the study of science and religion: a philosophical and historical reflection 12 Technoscientification and the oblivion of the social dimension of knowledge 13 Science cannot do it alone: habits, environment, and the enchantment of beauty 14 Knowledge and science in the art of living 15 Transforming knowledge into cognitive basis of policies: a cosmopolitan from below approach 16 The limits of science from the standpoint of philosophy Index