The Great Knowledge Transcendence

Dengjian Jin is John J. Curley '60 and Ann Conser Curley '63 Faculty Chair in International Studies, Business and Management and Associate Professor of International Business and Management at Dickinson College, USA.

1. Unnatural Knowledge Part I: THE MYTH, THE CHALLENGE, AND THE GREAT KNOWLEDGE TRANSCENDENCE FRAMEWORK 2. The Myth of Natural Knowledge Growth 3. The 1492 Question and the Needham Puzzle 4. The Blockage View 5. The Revisionist Challenge 6. The Transcendence View of Human Creativity Part II: COGNITIVE LIMITS TO NATURAL KNOWLEDGE CREATION 7. The Limits of Core Knowledge Systems 8. The Limits of Knowledge Generation Systems Part III: THE LIMITED EVOLVABILITY OF PREMODERN KNOWLEDGE 9. The Partial Transcendence of the Axial Age 10. The Limits of Natural Knowers 11. The Limits of Natural Societies of Minds Part IV: THE ADVENT OF TRANSCENDENTAL KNOWING 12. The First Mover 13. Artificial Mechanisms for Knowledge Transcendence 14. Sustained Knowledge Transcendence