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Introduction: Economics and "the Economy" -- How Economics forgot Capitalism -- Economics Caught in a Physics Masquerade -- Rethinking Science and Social Science with Critical Realism -- Rethinking Marx and the Economic Science of Capital -- The Uno-Sekine Reconstruction of Capital: Microeconomics of Value, Macroeconomics of Crises -- Levels of Analysis in Marxian Political Economy -- Marxists and Marx's Unfinished Project in Capital -- Conclusion: Capital, Science and Political Economy in the Narrow and sense.

1. Science international (beyond the West) : the ups and downs of trans-cultural science / Varadaraja V. Raman -- 2. Zen, Suzuki and the art of psychotherapy / Anne Harrington -- 3. India's response to Darwin / David L. Gosling -- 4. Perspectives on the relation between science and religion in India / A. Raghuramaraju -- 5. Jagadish Chandra Bose and Vedantic science / C. Mackenzie Brown -- 6. Ancient Indian philosophy meets modern western science : discussions of causality and consciousness in the colonial Indian academy / Nalini Bhushan -- 7. Being religious, being scientific : science, religion and atheism in contemporary India / Renny Thomas -- 8. Betwixt science and religion - East and West : Jesuits in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century southern India / John B. Lourdusamy -- 9. Exploring the contemporary debate over Islam and science in India : portrait of the Aligarh School / Stefano Bigliardi -- 10. How scientific was Islamic science? A case study in the alchemy of al-Razi / Paul Greenham -- 11. Western influences on Greek scholars : the scientific education of Greek Orthodox during the seventeenth century / Efthymios Nicolaidis.

"A critical investigation of modern naturalism is vitally needed for a deeper understanding of pragmatism's ability to offer enriching perspectives on contemporary philosophy of science. The kind of non-reductive naturalism so often associated with pragmatism needs to be assessed for its plausibility, as does whether a pragmatist perspective on different human ways of conceiving of the world can mediate between different points of view, especially those of natural science and common sense"-- Publisher summary

International studies have shown that interest in science and technology among primary and secondary school students in Western European countries is low and seems to be decreasing. In many countries outside Europe, and especially in developing countries, interest in science and technology remains strong. As part of the large-scale European Union funded 'Science Education for Diversity' project, a questionnaire probing potential reasons for this difference was completed by students in the UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, India and Malaysia. This questionnaire sought information about favourite courses, extracurricular activities and views on the nature of science. Over 9,000 students aged mainly between 10 and 14 years completed the questionnaire. Results revealed that students in countries outside Western Europe showed a greater interest in school science, in careers related to science and in extracurricular activities related to science than did Western European students. Non-European students were also more likely to hold an empiricist view of the nature of science and to believe that science can solve many problems faced by the world. Multilevel analysis revealed a strong correlation between interest in science and having such a view of the Nature of Science.

International studies have shown that interest in science and technology among primary and secondary school students in Western European countries is low and seems to be decreasing. In many countries outside Europe, and especially in developing countries, interest in science and technology remains strong. As part of the large-scale European Union funded 'Science Education for Diversity' project, a questionnaire probing potential reasons for this difference was completed by students in the UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, India and Malaysia. This questionnaire sought information about favourite courses, extracurricular activities and views on the nature of science. Over 9,000 students aged mainly between 10 and 14 years completed the questionnaire. Results revealed that students in countries outside Western Europe showed a greater interest in school science, in careers related to science and in extracurricular activities related to science than did Western European students. Non-European students were also more likely to hold an empiricist view of the nature of science and to believe that science can solve many problems faced by the world. Multilevel analysis revealed a strong correlation between interest in science and having such a view of the Nature of Science.