《达尔文的危险思想》封面

达尔文的危险思想

Darwin's dangerous idea

Daniel C. Dennett · 初版 1995 年

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为什么值得读

  • 视角比达尔文本人著作更广阔且更现代化
  • 聚焦变异与选择核心而省去繁杂无关细节
  • 文笔通俗易读且几无枯燥晦涩的数学公式

在这本极具开创性且深入浅出的著作中,Consciousness Explained 的知名作者 Daniel C. Dennett 论证了 natural selection 理论的强大力量,并揭示了 Darwin 的伟大思想如何改变并启迪了我们对人类在宇宙中所处地位的传统认知。将 Darwinian 思考推导至其逻辑结论是一件冒险的事,对每个人来说都暗藏陷阱。跌入这些陷阱的不仅是神创论者和其他拒绝进化论的人。许多接受 Darwin 结论有效性的人在其推论面前畏缩不前并歪曲其理论,因害怕……

Hacker News 上怎么说

  • ……是如何运作的,以及为什么它完全是盲目的,这受限于 HN 评论的篇幅根本讲不完。想看通俗好懂的阐述,我推荐道金斯(Dawkins)的《盲眼钟表匠》(The Blind Watchmaker)或《攀登不可能之峰》(Climbing Mount Improbable),或者丹尼特的《达尔文的危险思想》(Darwin's Dangerous Idea)。

    …works, and why it is completely blind, is not something for the size constraints of a HN comment. I'd recommend books like Dawkin's "The Blind Watchmaker" or "Climbing Mount Improbable", or Dennett's "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" for good, readable descriptions.

  • 平克(Pinker)+1,不过略微权衡一下的话我会首推《语言本能》(The Language Instinct)。道金斯 +1。另外还有:丹尼尔·丹尼特(Daniel Dennett)的《达尔文的危险思想》(Darwin's Dangerous Idea)。

    +1 for Pinker, though I'd pick The Language Instinct first, by a nose. +1 for Dawkins. Also: Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea.

  • 丹尼尔·丹尼特的《达尔文的危险思想》(Darwin's Dangerous Idea),我读过最重要的两本书之一(当然纯属个人拙见,另一本是下面已经有人推荐过的《思考,快与慢》Thinking, Fast and Slow)。丹尼特是一位偏实用的科学哲学家;其……

    Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel Dennett, one of the two most important (IMHO, of course) books I've read (Thinking, Fast and Slow is the other, already recommended, below. Dennett is a practical philosopher of science; the…

  • ……不能随便扫读的那种),但仍然可以在 Kindle 这类电子阅读器上看(所以公式要极少,而且最好有 EPUB 这种流式排版格式)。举几个例子:* 《达尔文的危险思想》(Darwin‘s Dangerous Idea,以及丹尼特的其他书)* 《思考,快与慢》(Thinking, Fast and Slow)* 诺顿的《哲学导论》(Norton’s Introduction to Philosophy)* LessWrong 的 Sequences 和 The Codex(一般来说,LessWrong 上大部分没有公式的文章都符合)* 大多数编程……

    …not something skimmable), but still readable on an e-reader such as Kindle (so equations should be very scarce, and the book should be available in a reflowable format such as EPUB). Some examples: * Darwin‘s Dangerous Idea (and other books by Dennett) * Thinking, Fast and Slow * Norton’s Introduction to Philosophy * Lesswrong’s sequences and The Codex (generally, most equation-less Lesswrong posts fit the bill) * Most Programming…

  • 好文章。如果你还想深入了解,与其直接读达尔文原著,我倒建议读读丹尼特的《达尔文的危险思想》(Darwin's Dangerous Idea),它站在更广阔、更现代的视角阐述了进化的重要性。尤其是达尔文的核心思想‘变异与选择’(variation and selection),而且省去了很多对于普通读者来说往往无关痛痒的……

    Good article. If you want more, rather than reading Darwin, I suggest Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea, which gives a broader, more modern view of the importance of evolution. Especially of "variation and selection", the core ideas of Darwin, and without a lot of frequently irrelevant, for the general…

  • 丹尼尔·卡尼曼的《思考,快与慢》(Thinking, Fast and Slow)。所有好奇我们大脑如何运作、好奇有多少东西在‘幕后’或‘暗地里’发生的人都应该读读。丹尼尔·丹尼特的《达尔文的危险思想》(Darwin's Dangerous Idea)。所有想了解机械论演化全部深层含义的人必读(提示:想想生命出现之前是什么)。杰弗里·米勒的《求偶思维》(The Mating Mind)。……

    Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. Should be read by all who wonder how our minds work - and how much happens "behind the scenes", "under the covers". Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel Dennett. Should be read by all curious to know the full implications of mechanistic evolution (hint: think about what came before life). The Mating Mind, by Geoffrey Miller. Must-read for…

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