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Daniel C·Dennett 出版社: Simon & Schuster 副标题: Evolution and the Meanings of Life 出版年: 1996-6-1 页数: 586 定价: GBP 14.18 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780684824710
One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philo...
One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philosophically impeccable. Highest Recommendation!
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丹尼尔·丹尼特(Daniel C. Dennett),认知科学家、科学哲学家,美国塔夫茨大学哲学教授,该校认知研究中心主任,研究领域包括心灵哲学、科学哲学、生物学哲学,尤其是这些领域中与演化和认知科学相关的问题。丹尼特在学界内外都有很大的影响力,被“人工智能之父”马文·明斯基称为“下一个伯特兰·罗素”“正在改变并重新定义哲学家所扮演的角色”,他还被高等教育网站The Best Schools评选为“50位最有影响力的在世哲学家”之一。
丹尼尔·丹尼特(Daniel C. Dennett),认知科学家、科学哲学家,美国塔夫茨大学哲学教授,该校认知研究中心主任,研究领域包括心灵哲学、科学哲学、生物学哲学,尤其是这些领域中与演化和认知科学相关的问题。丹尼特在学界内外都有很大的影响力,被“人工智能之父”马文·明斯基称为“下一个伯特兰·罗素”“正在改变并重新定义哲学家所扮演的角色”,他还被高等教育网站The Best Schools评选为“50位最有影响力的在世哲学家”之一。
Part I Starting in the middle: tell me why; an idea is born; universal acid; the tree of life; the possible and the actual; threads of actuality in design space.
Part II Darwinian thinking in biology: priming Darwin's pump; biology is engineering; searching for quality; bully for brontosaurus; controversies contained.
Part III Mind, meaning, mathematics, and morality: cranes of culture; losing our minds to Darwin; the evolution of meanings; the emperor's new mind, and other fables; on the origin of morality; redesigning morality; the future of an idea.
Part I Starting in the middle: tell me why; an idea is born; universal acid; the tree of life; the possible and the actual; threads of actuality in design space.
Part II Darwinian thinking in biology: priming Darwin's pump; biology is engineering; searching for quality; bully for brontosaurus; controversies contained.
Part III Mind, meaning, mathematics, and morality: cranes of culture; losing our minds to Darwin; the evolution of meanings; the emperor's new mind, and other fables; on the origin of morality; redesigning morality; the future of an idea.
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The other day, I was embarrassed—dismayed—to catch myself walking along humming a melody to myself. It was not a theme of Haydn or Brahms or Charlie Parker or even Bob Dylan: I was energetically humming "It Takes Two to Tango"—a perfectly dismal and entirely unredeemed bit of chewing gum for the ears that was unaccountably popular sometime in the 1950s. I am sure I have never in my life chosen this melody, esteemed this melody, or in any way judged it to be better than silence, but there it was, a horrible musical virus, at least as robust in my meme pool as any melody I actually esteem. And now, to make matters worse, I have resurrected the virus in many of you, who will no doubt curse me in days to come when you find yourself humming, for the first time in over thirty years, that boring ... (查看原文)
This summary is for me. So please don't complain about its incomprehensibility. It's not written for the public. Thanks. Chapter 3 Universal Acid The proof that life is a tree, that could be recursively created by applying the same algorithmic process to ...
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0 有用 Kymair 2022-02-05 01:48:23
Overwhelmed. Evolution is universal acid, so is the book.
0 有用 ERC永远是WOWER 2012-11-18 13:59:57
anti-Darwinian
0 有用 Bidasari 2025-02-22 10:01:15 美国
长得没有必要,但论达尔文的部分挺有启发的;达尔文重要的是把卢克莱修原子论式的「随机筛选」和贵族式的「谱系学」给结合起来了
0 有用 weihu 2016-08-13 18:14:41
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1 有用 初繁言 2022-08-26 10:04:19 美国
补标一下,最能get到的一本丹丹老师(btw,为什么丹丹老师的书都这么毫无必要地长?),比起进化论更像一个自然主义者的宣言。丹丹老师非传统的写作风格经常反而掩盖了他充满创造性的思维的难得。好处:所作出的观点经常很有启发;坏处:不是丹丹老师建议不要学丹丹老师写作(虽然很多非哲学领域的人会说丹丹老师写作好)。可以想象到很多国内读者会通情(或开吵),期待早日出版中译本!