Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen revea...(展开全部)

The fullest general statement of Max Weber's sociological theory to appear in any of his writings, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization is an introduction to Weber's ambitious comparitive study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order. In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical m...(展开全部)

One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philo...(展开全部)

This work assesses Darwin's theory of evolution and looks at why it arises such heated debate among scientists, philosophers and sociologists. The book aims to show that Darwinism does not devalue the miracles of life.

One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson’s Darwin’s Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary theory of religion that shakes both evolutionary biology and social th...(展开全部)

In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his bo...(展开全部)

In this pithy and highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognised authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory is skilfully employed to offer new interpretations of a wide variety of social phenomena, including justice, mutual aid, commitment, convention and meaning. The author es...(展开全部)

阿方斯·多普施（Alfons Dopsch),1868年6月14日出生于奥地利帝国波西米亚（Bohemia）一个名为罗布西茨（Lobositz）的小镇上，该地区即如今捷克共和国的洛沃西采（Lovosice）。多普施于1886年开始在维也纳大学攻读历史学，后于1890年获得博士学位，并在1898年成为维也纳大学的史学教授。在那里，他一直执教到1937年。1953年，多普施逝世于维也纳。 肖超，1975年生，复旦大学历史系博士生，复旦大学法学院博士后。著有论文《提阿菲罗斯在〈致奥托莱库斯〉中史学阐释理论体系》。

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

阿方斯·多普施（Alfons Dopsch),1868年6月14日出生于奥地利帝国波西米亚（Bohemia）一个名为罗布西茨（Lobositz）的小镇上，该地区即如今捷克共和国的洛沃西采（Lovosice）。多普施于1886年开始在维也纳大学攻读历史学，后于1890年获得博士学位，并在1898年成为维也纳大学的史学教授。在那里，他一直执教到1937年。1953年，多普施逝世于维也纳。 肖超，1975年生，复旦大学历史系博士生，复旦大学法学院博士后。著有论文《提阿菲罗斯在〈致奥托莱库斯〉中史学阐释理论体系》。