THE SCIENCE DELUSION: ASKING THE BIG QUESTIONS IN A CULTURE OF EASY ANSWERS
Book ID/图书代码： 08885013B63118
English Summary/英文概要： The so-called new atheists, most famously Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, made a splash in the new millen-nium. They told the evangelical and the liberal believer that they must give up religion and submit to science.
More recently, neuroscientists and their fans in the media have delivered a variation on this message: the mapping of the human brain will soon be completed, and we will know what we are and how we should act. Their faith is that the scientific method provides the best understanding not only of the physical world but also of art, culture, economics, and anything left over. The message is nearly the same as that of the new atheists: submit to science.
In short, the rich philosophical debates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been nearly totally abandoned, argues Curtis White. An atheist himself, White fears what this new turn toward “scientism” will do to our culture if allowed to flourish without challenge.
After all, is creativity really just chemicals in the brain? Is it wrong to ponder “Why is there something instead of nothing?” or “What is our purpose on Earth?” These were some of the original concerns of the Romantic movement, which pushed back against the dogmas of science in a nearly forgotten era.
In this brilliant multipart critique, White aims at a TED talk by a distinguished neuroscientist in which we are told that human thought is merely the product of our “connectome”—neural connections in the brain that are yet to be fully understood . . . He examines the ideas of a widely respected physicist who argues that a new understanding of the origins of the universe trumps all religious and philosophical inquiry . . . and ends with an eloquent defense of the poetry and philosophy of Romanticism, which White believes our technology and science-obsessed world desperately needs to rediscover.
It’s the only way, he argues, that we can see our world clearly . . . and change it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 理查德德•道金斯和克里斯托弗•希钦斯，在所谓的新无神论者里最有名的两位，在新千禧年激起了波澜。他们告诉福音派和自由派的信徒们，他们必须放弃宗教信仰并服从科学。
最近，神经科学家和他们的粉丝在媒体上传达了一篇震撼的报告：人类大脑的绘制将很快完成，我们就会知道我们是什么，应该怎样行动。他们坚信科学的方法不仅是理解物理世界最好的方法，对艺术，文化，经济以及任何领域也都适用。这篇报告和那些新无神论者的持有观点一样：服从科学。
简言之，怀特辩论说十八，十九世纪的哲学思辨早已被抛弃。我们脑内的思考诸如“为什么是有东西而不是没东西？”或者“我们出现在地球上的目的是什么？”是错误的吗？这些都是一些对浪漫主义运动的原始关注，它把科学的教条推回到几乎被遗忘的时代。
在这份聪明的多面评论中，怀特分析了由一个著名的神经科学家带来的TED讲座，他告诉我们人类的思想仅仅是“连接组产品”——那些尚未完全被理解的大脑神经连接……他考察了一位广受尊敬的物理学家的观点：对宇宙起源的新理解胜过所有的宗教和哲学探究……最后以浪漫主义诗歌和哲学辩护结束，怀特认为我们依赖的科学技术迫切的需要被重新认识。
他强调这是我们认识和改变世界的唯一出路。哲学辩论几乎已完全被遗弃。怀特自己是一个无神论者，他担心新的“科学主义”如果在没有面临挑战的情况下就这样蓬勃发展，将威胁到我们的文化。
毕竟，创造力真的只是大脑中的化学物质吗？（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：怀特严厉谴责了当前的科学写作忽略艺术和人文的做法，还有崇拜神经科学就好像它是一切问题的答案。他也为哲学和艺术做了雄辩。它已经激起了不少的辩论！
“这是一次关于真正意义上的焦虑的对症旅行，它让我们感到真正活着并独一无二的所有品质都觉醒了。”——纽约时报书评
“他对霍金，克劳斯，莱勒以及其他人的尖锐批评是犀利的并有必要的，运用基本逻辑会找出谁知道的更好。怀特展示了良好的科学是多么容易进入自我夸大意识形态的科学主义。”——马克•金维尔
“对科学的机智批判，赞扬了人类成就。”——柯克斯评论
About the Author/作者介绍： 柯蒂斯•怀特是小说《对父亲看电视和听安魂曲的回忆》的作者。他是一个广受好评的散文家，出现在《哈珀杂志》，《拉帕姆季刊》，《猎户》和《花花公子》上。他的书《中间头脑：为什么美国人不要为自己着想》，是2003年的国际畅销书。CURTIS WHITE is the author of the novels of Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. A widely acclaimed essayist, he has had work appear in Harper’s Magazine,Lapham’s Quarterly, Orion, and Playboy. His book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves was an international bestseller in 2003.
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