Jin D. The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 312 p.Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize.
This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.Unnatural Knowledge.
The 1492 Question and the Needham Puzzle.
The Transcendence View of Human Creativity.
The Limits of the Core Knowledge Systems.
The Limits of the Knowledge Generation Systems.
The Partial Transcendence of the Axial Age.
The Limits of Natural Knowers.
The Limits of Natural Societies of Minds.
The First Mover.
Artificial Mechanisms for Knowledge Transcendence.
Sustained Knowledge Transcendence: Impacts and Implications.