Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe

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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
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