知识机器
The Knowledge Machine
Michael Strevens · 初版 2020 年
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“一部彻底革新我们对科学起源与结构认知的范式转换之作。Michael Strevens 的这部独辟蹊径的科学调查著作文笔引人入胜，穿插着诸多诱人的插图和历史片段，涵盖了从 Newton 的炼金术到 quantum mechanics，再到飓风桑迪的风暴潮等丰富内容。他在书中提出了两个根本性问题：科学为何如此强大？以及，在哲学和数学诞生两千年之后，人类为何历经如此漫长的岁月才开始运用科学来探索大自然的奥秘？The Knowledge Machine
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楼主发的是一本新出的书的书评，书名叫《知识机器：非理性如何造就现代科学》（The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science），作者是纽约大学哲学教授 Michael Strevens：https://smile.amazon.com/Knowledge-Machine-Irrationality-Cre... Strevens 提出了一个全新的解释……
The OP is a review of a recently released book, "The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science," by Michael Strevens, a professor of philosophy at NYU: https://smile.amazon.com/Knowledge-Machine-Irrationality-Cre... Streven proposes a new explanation as…
……就是这期播客让我意识到“原来搞清‘真相’也这么难”。https://www.jimruttshow.com/michael-strevens/ “Michael Strevens 和 Jim 聊了聊他在《知识机器：非理性如何造就现代科学》一书中的一些观点和故事：关于方法的大争论究竟是什么，波普尔和库恩又作出了什么贡献，证伪与科学进步，检验爱因斯坦理论那段乱七八糟的历史，……
…this is the podcast episode that made me think "huh, Truth is hard too". https://www.jimruttshow.com/michael-strevens/ "Michael Stevens talks to Jim about some of the ideas & stories in his book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science: what the great method debate is & how Popper & Kuhn added to the topic, falsification & scientific progress, the messy history of testing Einstein’s theories,…
……世纪，在所谓的科学革命历程中，恰恰是因为它偶然撞见了‘唯有经验证据才作数’这一原则所带来的非凡驱动力——我在我的书《知识机器》（The Knowledge Machine，2020）里讲述了这个故事。”其实就是个图书广告罢了。
…century, in the course of the so-called Scientific Revolution, precisely because it stumbled upon the extraordinary motivating power of ‘only empirical evidence counts’ – a story I tell in my book The Knowledge Machine (2020)." It's a book ad.