Multicivilizational Exchanges in the Making of Modern Science: Needham's Dialogical Vision (多元文明交流與現代科學的形成：尼達姆的對話視野)

Bala, Arun, Wk Lau, Raymond, Mei, Jianjun

Multicivilizational Exchanges in the Making of Modern Science: Needham's Dialogical Vision
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-10
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 372
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9819735408
  • ISBN-13: 9789819735402

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This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today. The dialogical dimension of the history of science has long been marginalized by an excessive concern on why modern science emerged in Europe, but not in any of the advanced civilizations of the East. This focus upon what has been called Joseph Needham's "Grand Comparative Question" ignores his other project, focused on showing how dialogues between civilizations have nurtured science. Needham's "Grand Dialogical Question" - if we may call it that by parity - has directly or indirectly inspired a vast body of literature showing how interconnections of civilizations over the last three thousand years, and exchanges of cosmological, mathematical, geographical, physical, biological and medical technologies, techniques, practices and knowledge, have been woven together to produce current science. Bringing together scholars whose research range across multiple civilizations and disciplines, this book investigates the scope and limits of Needham's dialogical vision for science.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了為何以及如何跨文明的交流豐富了今日的科學。科學史中的對話維度長期以來一直被過度關注現代科學為何在歐洲而非東方的先進文明中出現的問題所邊緣化。這種專注於被稱為約瑟夫·尼德姆的「大比較問題」的問題忽略了他的另一個項目，即展示文明之間的對話如何培育科學。尼德姆的「大對話問題」，如果我們可以這樣稱呼它，直接或間接地啟發了大量文獻，顯示了過去三千年來文明之間的相互聯繫以及宇宙學、數學、地理學、物理學、生物學和醫學技術、技巧、實踐和知識的交流如何編織在一起，產生了當今的科學。本書匯集了研究範圍涵蓋多個文明和學科的學者，探討了尼德姆對科學的對話視野的範圍和限制。

作者簡介

Arun Bala is a physicist and philosopher of science. He is the author and editor of multiple books, including Complementarity Beyond Physics (2017) and Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science (2012). He is Director (Research) with Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilization, and a Visiting Scholar with the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in University of Toronto.

Raymond W. K. Lau is a sociologist by training. His research interests focus on ancient Chinese thoughts and comparative intellectual developments. He retired as full professor of sociology from the Open University of Hong Kong, and now serves as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University as well as senior advisor to The Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilization.

Jianjun Mei is an archaeo-metallurgist, specializing in the origins and role of metallurgy in Early China, and cultural interactions between China and the West. He is President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, and Director of the Needham Research Institute.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Arun Bala是一位物理學家和科學哲學家。他是多本書的作者和編輯，包括《超越物理的互補性》（2017年）和《亞洲、歐洲與現代科學的出現》（2012年）。他是約瑟夫·尼德姆科學與文明基金會的研究主任，也是多倫多大學歷史和科學哲學研究所的訪問學者。

Raymond W. K. Lau是一位社會學家。他的研究興趣集中在古代中國思想和比較智力發展上。他曾在香港公開大學擔任社會學的全職教授，現在是香港樹仁大學的訪問高級研究員，並擔任約瑟夫·尼德姆科學與文明基金會的高級顧問。

Jianjun Mei是一位考古冶金學家，專門研究早期中國冶金的起源和作用，以及中國與西方之間的文化交流。他是國際東亞科學、技術和醫學歷史學會的主席，也是尼德姆研究所的所長。

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