理解生命
Making Sense of Life
Evelyn Fox Keller · 初版 2002 年
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出版商简介：生物学家想要什么？如果与物理学界的同行不同，生物学家普遍对宏大、包罗万象的理论心存戒备，那么生物学家追求的究竟是怎样的解释？我们何时才能知道自己已经“读懂”了生命？Evelyn Fox Keller 指出，这类问题并没有简单的答案。生物科学中的解释通常具有暂定性和局限性，其评判标准与其研究对象一样繁复多样。Keller 在这部大胆而具挑战性的著作中的目的，正是阐明这种认识论上的多样性——特别是在发
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……在这里真心实意探讨性别研究价值的意愿。然而，那些声称性别学术研究不懂生物学的人，我建议你们翻翻 Evelyn Fox Keller 的好书《理解生命》（Making Sense of Life，哈佛大学出版社，2002 年），准备大吃一惊吧。（没错，Keller 是物理学家，不是生物学家。那些试图贬低或否定妇女研究所取得成就的人大概会拿这点来否定……
…desire around here to argue the merits of gender studies in good faith. However, those proclaiming that gender scholarship doesn't get biology, I suggest you pick up Evelyn Fox Keller's excellent book Making Sense of Life (HUP, 2002) and allow yourselves to be surprised. (Yes, Keller is a physicist, not a biologist. Those trying to belittle or dismiss what women's studies has accomplished will probably use that to disqualify…
……关于在生物学中什么才算得上是“解释”的大背景——进而延伸到为什么图灵提出的数理生物学方法从未真正流行起来——在 Evelyn Fox Keller 的《理解生命：用模型、隐喻和机器解释生物发育》（哈佛大学出版社，2003 年）中有过阐述。该论点的简要版本见 Project Syndicate 的这篇文章：http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biology-s-clash-...
…general context of what counts as an explanation in biology -- and, by extension, why the mathematical biological approach advanced by Turing never really caught on -- is presented in Evelyn Fox Keller's Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines (Harvard U.P., 2003). A short version of the argument is presented in this article from Project Syndicate: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biology-s-clash-...
对我来说，我经历了很多人生变故，尽管彻底往好的方向发展，但过程依旧艰难。我推荐《转变：理解人生的变故》（Transitions, Making Sense of Life's Changes）这本书。它帮我用全新的方式理解和思考改变，并在旧事物结束、新事物尚未开始的过渡期学会释怀与接纳。
For me, I had a lot of life changes, dramatically for the better, and it was hard. I recommend the book Transitions, Making Sense of Life's Changes. It helped me understand and think about change in a new way and to embrace the in-between when something ends before something else begins.