TOO SMART FOR OUR OWN GOOD: THE ECOLOGICAL PREDICAMENT OF HUMANKIND
Book ID/图书代码： 02560010B43554
English Summary/英文概要： We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behavior is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species.
Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species’ development, taking over where Darwin left off.
The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopedia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive.
Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this ground-breaking work. CONTENTS:
1. Scientific ground rules
2. The new views in anthropology, archaeology and economics
3. The oretical background to the vicious circle principle
4. The vicious circle principle of the development of humankind
5. The development of humankind
6. The vicious circle today
7. … and too dumb to change
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 匯集15年研究心血 目前唯一的「人類發展理論」 天災人禍不斷，世界末日預言四起
人類究竟走向了什麼樣的未來？
瑞典烏普薩拉大學(Uppsala University)博士Craig Dilworth
匯集15年研究心血，發展出第一個也是目前唯一一個「人類發展理論」
勇敢面對人類的生態困境，提供邁向美好明天的典範！
我們正加快腳步破壞地球的生態環境，同時也將我們生存的必備要素一一摧毀。Craig Dilworth綜合了進化論、人類學、考古學、經濟學、環境科學和歷史，發展出第一個也是目前唯一一個的「人類發展理論」。「人類發展理論」仔細分析人類7百萬年的發展歷程，接續達爾文的「人類的起源」理論，由此也可看出人類發展至今所面臨的生態困境。
此書相當於現代人發展歷程的袖珍百科全書，裡面有廣泛的辭彙和清楚明瞭的索引，對於生命科學及社會科學課程頗有幫助。本書也提供人類能永續生存的範例和方法，期許人類能走向美好的未來！(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：Review
’Dilworth’s book is very interesting, well written, and based on an incredible amount of research. It provides a thoroughly novel view of extremely important issues, one which will add considerably to the discussion concerning limits to growth.’---Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth 丹尼斯．米道斯，麻省理工學院教授，《成長的極限》作者群之一
’[Dilworth’s] economics discussions are on target. I congratulate him on his very comprehensive undertaking.’---Herman Daly, author of Steady-State Economics 赫爾曼‧戴利，生態經濟學者，世界銀行資深經濟學家，著有《穩態經濟》一書
’An impressive volume - comprehensive and scholarly. The book’s central ideas are of critical importance for humankind.’---Tony (AJ) McMichael, author of Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease (Cambridge University Press, 2001). 東尼．麥克邁克爾，著有《人類浩劫-失衡生態的反噬》
’[Dilworth] writes extremely well, is widely read, and has a unique wealth of knowledge. This book is unique in its coverage and presentation; and the examples it provides are excellent.’---David Pimentel, Cornell University; editor of Food, Energy and Society 大衛‧比門鐵爾，美國康乃爾大學生態及農業科學教授
’Dilworth’s book is an exceptionally ’good read’ and is a synthesis of many important components (ecological, social, and technological) that are commonly treated in isolation from each other. Information is provided in a systematic and orderly way, and the flow from one idea to the next is almost seamless. The book also has a wealth of useful references. ... [It] is well written and should be important to anyone interested in the future of civilization and Homo sapiens. Such breadth and depth in a single book are rare.’---劍橋大學環境科學期刊Environmental Conservation
’... a very fine piece of work, and most welcome as we humans careen toward crisis and disaster. I hope the book gets widely discussed and perhaps even starts to change the extraordinarily ignorant, fantasy-driven media discussions of contemporary problems that seem to focus on aspects of ideology and belief to the neglect of the underlying processes that, I increasingly fear, are driving us to ruin. ... I like the book very much. It is a piece of first-rate scholarship written in a clear and engaging style. ... I would like to see this book widely read by a literate general audience. It could also serve as the basic text for upper division courses in human ecology in departments of anthropology, sociology, geography (and maybe even economics).’---Allen W. Johnson, co-author of The Evolution of Human Societies
About the Author/作者介绍： Craig Dilworth, born and raised in Canada, received his PhD in Sweden in 1981. He is presently Reader in Theoretical Philosophy at Uppsala University. While he is fundamentally a philosopher, Dilworth is at the same time a true generalist. He has been engaged in a wide variety of environmental projects on the local level, while at the same time developing his intellectual interests in the philosophy of science, human ecology, theoretical physics, theoretical biology, and the social sciences. He is the author of two major works in the philosophy of science, Scientific Progress and The Metaphysics of Science, and an earlier book in environmental science, Sustainable Development and Decision Making. He has spent the past 15 years researching the present book. Craig Dilworth於加拿大出生長大，在1981年在瑞典拿到博士學位。
現在在瑞典烏普薩拉大學(Uppsala University)理論哲學系(Theoretical Philosophy)任教。
他為了研究環保相關議題，廣泛吸收科學哲學、生態學、理論物理、理論生物和社會科學等學科的知識。他有兩本關於科學哲學的著作：《Scientific Progress》和《The Metaphysics of Science》，還有一本關於環境科學的著作：《Sustainable Development and Decision Making》。為了撰寫本書，他花了15年研究彙整。
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