Consilience：The Unity of Knowledge

作者: Edward O. Wilson 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 1999-03

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780679768678

定价: 126.70

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 384页

正文语种: 英语

丛书: Vintage

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>工程技术

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"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal

One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience(a word that originally meant "jumping together")， Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology， the social sciences and the humanities.

Using the natural sciences as his model， Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence， and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole， Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton， Einstein， and Richard Feynman. Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he has since taught, and where he has received both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, OOn Human Nature (1978) and The Ants(1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the International Prize for Biology from Japan (1993), and, for his conservation efforts, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995). He is on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History, and gives many lectures throughout the world. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Irene.,, CHAPTER 1  The Ionian Enchantment

CHAPTER 2  The Great Branches of Learning

CHAPTER 3  The Enlightenment

CHAPTER 4  The Natural Sciences

CHAPTER 5  Ariadne's Thread

CHAPTER 6  The Mind

CHAPTER 7  From Genes to Culture

CHAPTER 8  The Fitness of Human Nature

CHAPTE R 9  The Social Sciences

CHAPTER 10  TheArts and Their Interpretation

CHAPTER 11  Ethics and Religion

CHAPTER 12  ToWhatEnd?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index
内容简介:
"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal

One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience(a word that originally meant "jumping together")， Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology， the social sciences and the humanities.

Using the natural sciences as his model， Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence， and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole， Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton， Einstein， and Richard Feynman.
作者简介:
Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he has since taught, and where he has received both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, OOn Human Nature (1978) and The Ants(1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the International Prize for Biology from Japan (1993), and, for his conservation efforts, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995). He is on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History, and gives many lectures throughout the world. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Irene.,,
目录:
CHAPTER 1  The Ionian Enchantment

CHAPTER 2  The Great Branches of Learning

CHAPTER 3  The Enlightenment

CHAPTER 4  The Natural Sciences

CHAPTER 5  Ariadne's Thread

CHAPTER 6  The Mind

CHAPTER 7  From Genes to Culture

CHAPTER 8  The Fitness of Human Nature

CHAPTE R 9  The Social Sciences

CHAPTER 10  TheArts and Their Interpretation

CHAPTER 11  Ethics and Religion

CHAPTER 12  ToWhatEnd?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index