The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Frank, Adam, Gleiser, Marcelo, Thompson, Evan
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-03-05
- 售價: $1,250
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,188
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 328
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 0262048809
- ISBN-13: 9780262048804
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A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. "This is by far the best book I've read this year."
--Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; #1 New York Times bestselling author "(A) stimulating manifesto for changing the way we look at things."
--Wall Street Journal It's tempting to think that science gives us a God's-eye view of reality. But we neglect the place of human experience at our peril. In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes--rather than ignores or tries not to see--humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. The authors present science not as discovering an absolute reality but rather as a highly refined, constantly evolving form of human experience. They urge practitioners to reframe how science works for the sake of our future in the face of the planetary climate crisis and increasing science denialism. Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, humanity has looked to science to tell us who we are, where we come from, and where we're going, but we've gotten stuck thinking we can know the universe from outside our position in it. When we try to understand reality only through external physical things imagined from this outside position, we lose sight of the necessity of experience. This is the Blind Spot, which the authors show lies behind our scientific conundrums about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, AI and the mind, consciousness, and Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge is a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it evolving together. To finally "see" the Blind Spot is to awaken from a delusion of absolute knowledge and to see how reality and experience intertwine. The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.
--Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; #1 New York Times bestselling author "(A) stimulating manifesto for changing the way we look at things."
--Wall Street Journal It's tempting to think that science gives us a God's-eye view of reality. But we neglect the place of human experience at our peril. In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes--rather than ignores or tries not to see--humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. The authors present science not as discovering an absolute reality but rather as a highly refined, constantly evolving form of human experience. They urge practitioners to reframe how science works for the sake of our future in the face of the planetary climate crisis and increasing science denialism. Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, humanity has looked to science to tell us who we are, where we come from, and where we're going, but we've gotten stuck thinking we can know the universe from outside our position in it. When we try to understand reality only through external physical things imagined from this outside position, we lose sight of the necessity of experience. This is the Blind Spot, which the authors show lies behind our scientific conundrums about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, AI and the mind, consciousness, and Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge is a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it evolving together. To finally "see" the Blind Spot is to awaken from a delusion of absolute knowledge and to see how reality and experience intertwine. The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.
作者簡介
Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of Light of the Stars.
Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, the 2019 Templeton Prize laureate, and author of seven widely translated books, most recently The Dawn of a Mindful Universe. Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author or coauthor of five books in cognitive science and philosophy, including The Embodied Mind (MIT Press).
Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, the 2019 Templeton Prize laureate, and author of seven widely translated books, most recently The Dawn of a Mindful Universe. Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author or coauthor of five books in cognitive science and philosophy, including The Embodied Mind (MIT Press).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Adam Frank是羅徹斯特大學物理和天文學系的Helen F.和Fred H. Gowen教授，並且是卡爾·薩根獎的獲獎者。他是《星光之光》的作者。
Marcelo Gleiser是達特茅斯學院的Appleton自然哲學教授，2019年坦普頓獎得主，並且是七本廣泛翻譯的書籍的作者，其中最近一本是《覺知宇宙的曙光》。
Evan Thompson是英屬哥倫比亞大學溫哥華分校的哲學教授，同時也是加拿大皇家學會的會士。他是認知科學和哲學領域的五本書的作者或合著者，其中包括《具身心靈》（麻省理工學院出版社）。
